White, Rochow Named To Faculty Positions In Botany, Chemistry

Appointments of William L. White as new director of the Farlow Herbarium and Eugene G. Rochow as associate professor of Chemistry were announced yesterday by Provost Buck.

As head of the Herbarium, which houses the University's large fungi collection, White will hold the rank of associate professor of Botany. The new director is now head of the Myscological Laboratory of the Army Quartermasters' Depot in Philadelphia.

During the war, White served in tropical countries and made surveys of fungal deterioration of Army material. At present, he is supervising Army research aimed at preventing fungus damage to clothing and food.

Rochow, an international authority on silicon compounds, is now a research chemist with General Electric, where he has been working chiefly on projects in organic chemistry.