in ornithology. Nor must I omit my dear versatile friend, Harrison Allen. 

 Later years and my expansion into the field of mycology have brought happy 

 fruitful friendships also with Cornelius L. Shear of the United States 

 Agricultural Department, Washington, D. C, Mrs. Flora W. Patterson, Miss 

 Vera K. Charles, C. G. Lloyd, Wm. G. Farlow, W. A. Murrill, H. C. Kaufman, 

 Charles Mcllvaine, H. C. Beardslee, Miss Gertrude Burlingham, Homer D. 

 House, Simon Davis, John K. Small, A. H. E. BuUer. My reply, therefore, 

 to the quo warranto is the citation of the unalloyed joys springing from these 

 personal associations, not to mention the many excursions out into the fields — 

 so infinitely superior to golf and baseball and other distractions over which 

 my fellow mortals squander so much of the precious time of their brief 

 mundane allotment ; greatest of all is the undeflnable attraction of the branch 

 itself so replete with wonderful forms — all modifications of one fundamental 

 idea — and exquisite color more thrilling I think than that of any of the 

 phanerogams. 



The amateur who first comes into mycology, like myself, at once demands 

 a book with pictures and perhaps falls in with Krieger's article in the National 

 Geographic Magazine for May, 1920, or discovers Nina Marshall's remarkably 

 clever presentation, aided, J believe, by L. M. Underwood, as well as by Miss 

 H. C. Anderson of Lambertville, New Jersey, who furnished the admirable 

 colored photographs. With a growing interest, he next rejoices in a copy of 

 Mcllvaine's and Macadam's " One Thousand American Fungi," which did 

 so much to popularize the subject under the stimulating guidance of the 

 doughty captain and for which Charles H. Peck, ever generous and lavish 

 with his time, is in large measure responsible. Then M. E. Hard's book now 

 becoming scarce turns up with its fine illustrations, often reflecting W. A. 

 Kellerman's and Peck's judgments as to species and in many ways an excellent 

 guide; George F. Atkinson's volume next enters the library to foster a more 

 scientific spirit, — though hastily done and irregular in its treatment of genera 

 it breathes the spirit of the laboratory and at once takes a leading place in the 

 budding mycologist's growing library. Perhaps to the collector's joy, through 

 the catalogues which begin to flow in, ho discovers a copy of Peck's admirable 

 " Boleti," some of his works on the edible fungi, and other monographic 

 papers. Last and best of all comes C. H. Kauflman's "Agaricaceae of 

 Michigan," a great work, a ne plus ultra, until indeed the desideratum of the 

 future, a well illustrated work on all the fleshy fungi and the polypores of 

 North America, appears; may it be Kauflman's task to accomplish this too! 



