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Staff Announcements. 
Dr. B. T. Galloway, whose resignation from the 
position of Dean of the College of Agriculture at 
Cornell University has been announced in the papers, 
has returned to the Department and has taken charge 
of two important investigative projects in the Office 
of Foreign Seed and Plant Introduction of the Bureau 
of Plant Industry. 
Believing that he has done his share of adminis- 
trative work and earned the right to pursue studies 
in agriculture of a purely investigative character, 
Dr. Galloway has taken hold of the following projects 
in this Office, viz. : 
The Protection and Propagation of New Plant Introductions and 
Plant Introduction Surveys. The former project covers a wide 
field of research, which has in recent years become a 
necessity owing to the operation of the Act creating 
the Federal Horticultural Board. The problems are 
those connected with the production from suspected or 
diseased plant material brought in from abroad of per- 
fectly healthy young plants suitable for distribution 
throughout the country. To facilitate this work a 
special laboratory is being erected adjacent to the 
inspection house and quarantine enclosure on the Mall 
and Dr. Galloway expects to occupy this laboratory 
upon his return from an extended trip which he is now 
making through the West. This trip is for the dual 
purpose first of making an investigation of the Plant 
Introduction Field Stations of the Bureau to as- 
certain what increased facilities will be required 
to make them more effective, and second of making a 
preliminary survey of the plant Introductions which 
have been made into that territory and the possibility 
of further expansion of their cultivation as plant in- 
dustries. This latter study is preliminary to the de- 
velopment of Dr. Galloway's second project, which in- 
volves the bringing together in a comprehensive way 
for practical use of all the available information 
which is required for the organization and successful 
maintenance of new plant industries brought about 
through the introduction of new foreign seeds and 
plants. 
Dr. Galloway's itinerary has taken him through 
Canada, where he has studied the progess of the plant 
introduction work which was so well begun by Dr. 
William Saunders. It will take him through to the Puget 
Sound Region and down the Pacific Coast to southern 
