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SEW U. S. LABORATORY COMISS TO BROWN 
TO CONDUCT IHYSSTIGATIOSS OS FTJEGOU3 DISEASE? OF TREES IS THIS 
VICISITY. 
J. Franklin Collins to be in charge. 
For seferal weeks officials of the Office of Investiga¬ 
tions in Forest Pathology, Bureau of Plant Industry, Washington, 
D. 0., have been looking about Providence with a view to 
securing suitable quarters in which to establish a ioaoafoc 
branch office. 
Einee Professor J. Franklin Collins resigned his position 
as heed of the Botanical Department at Brown University, in 
July, 1911, and took up his duties as Forest Pathologist in 
the Government service he has been conducting a considerable 
portion of his Investigations in this vicinity. Many of these 
investigations were begun some years ago while working for the 
Bureau of Plant Industry during vacations, and attending to 
ris regular duties at Brown trough the academic year. During 
the past year Ms work in this vicinity has increased so rapid¬ 
ly in quantity and importance that the Washington office, in 
charge of Dr. Haven Metcalf, decided that the best way to meet 
the situation would be to establish a branch laboratory in 
Providence, with sufficient space to accommodate four patholo¬ 
gists and a clerk. 
Practically the entire credit for the new laboratory 
going to Brown University is due directly or indirectly to the 
foresight and activity of Professor H, H. York, who is Profes¬ 
sor Collins successor at Brown. Several weeks ago upon learning 
