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upon topics related to his special work. This means that the 
students who are planning to take up plant pathology, or some 
related topic, as a livelihood, will have the most favorable 
opportunity for petting first hand information re as to 
details of the work as it Is carried on by specialists in the 
G ove rnment service. 
Orders were placed some time since for a considerable 
quantity of special apparatus for the new laboratory. Some of 
this has already arrived and the rest is on Its way from Europe 
and various places in this country. All of this apparatus 
will be made available for the use of the botanical faculty 
and for certain advanced students in Bot ny, when it is not 
being- used by the government investigators. 
It is expected that the new laboratory will come into 
official existence on hew Year's hay, and that the first topics 
for investigation will be certain phases of the Chestnut Bark 
Disease in its relation to immune varieties and hybrids of the 
American, European, and Asiatic chestnut trees. 
