Dr. Weston Gets Leave of Absence

The University authorities announced yesterday that Dr. W. H. Weston, assistant professor of botany at the University, has been granted leave of absence for the second half of the current academic year, to continue in Cuba some phases of the study and control of the sugar cane Mosaic diseases. Dr. Weston received his master's degree from the University in 1912 and his Ph.D. in 1915. He began his study of the sugar cane diseases with Dr. East at Soledad last February, and continued last summer in Cuba with the Tropical Plant Research Foundation.