1921] Proceedings of the Academy of Science 13 



*Wolf, F. A., Plant Pathology, State College Raleigh, N. C. 



*Wright, Miss Eva K., North Carolina College for Women Greensboro 



Total 133. 



The following papers were presented at the meeting: 

 Age of Insects. Z. P. Metcalf. (Presidential address.) Appears 

 in full in this issue. 



The Genus Raspailia and the Independent Variability of Diagnostic 

 Features. H. V. Wilson. 

 Appears in full in this issue. 



Current Research in Organic Chemistry at the University of North Caro- 

 lina. Alvin S. Wheeler. 



Active work is being done upon six research problems. First, the 

 nature of kelp oil from the distillation of kelp, a seaweed in the Pacific 

 Ocean, is being investigated. Nothing whatever about it is known. 

 Second, the bromination of 2-Amino-p-cymene yields a mono-bromo 

 derivative and new compounds derived from it have been prepared. 

 Third, the chlorination of 2-Amino-p-cymene also yields a chlorine 

 derivative. The constitution of the two halogen compounds presents 

 a fine puzzle in orientation. Fourth, further work is being done with 

 Tribromojuglone as raw material. Fifth, the chlorination of juglone 

 proceeds differently from the bromination and good results are being 

 obtained. Sixth, a shorter process of obtaining bromo-amino-cymene 

 is being sought, by brominating nitrocymene and then reducing. My 

 assistants in these studies in the same order as the problems above are : 

 H. M. Taylor, I. W. Smithey, I. V. Giles, T. M. Andrews, P. R. Daw- 

 son, S. C. Smith. 



Some Fungi New to North America or the South. W. C. Coker. 



Sirohasidium sanguineum, another species of a rare genus of gelat- 

 inous fungi which has been known before only from South America, 

 has been found here. The author has previously reported S. Brefeldi- 

 anum from Chapel Hill. 



A remarkable form of a well known edible mushroom, the early 

 Pholiota (P. praecox), occurs in Chapel Hill and Raleigh. It is dis- 

 tinguished by the absence of any visible trace of a veil. This would 

 entirely mislead one as to its real place in classification, as the veil is 

 supposC^d to be a generic character. 



The only species of the mushroom genus Tricholoma {T. venenata) 

 that is known to be poisonous was collected at Chapel Hill in the fall 



