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1919, at Paris, France. As noted in the Record for April, 1919 
(p. 26), Mrs. Weis has been in France on leave of absence from 
the Botanic Garden since January, 1919, for reconstruction work, 
especially in connection with gardening, having sailed with the 
Wellesley Unit. 
Miss Philura H. Brower, for over eight years secretary to the 
School of Fine and Applied Arts of Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, 
Was appointed acting secretary of the Botanic Garden, beginning 
June 2, 1919. At the meeting of the Botanic Garden Governing 
Committee, July 17, 1919, her appointment as secretary was au- 
thorized, to take effect on August 1, 19109. 
North-Eastern Mycological Club—There was organized at 
Ithaca, on June 5, 1919, the North-Eastern Mycological Club, 
with about 15 charter members. The proposed purpose of the 
club is to stimulate the collection and exchange of fungi in gen- 
eral, both saprophytic and parasitic. The organization followed 
several days of enthusiastic work in collecting and identifying 
specimens of fungi, participated in by representatives of Cornell 
University, the New York Botanical Garden, Syracuse Univer- 
sity, and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. It is planned to hold 
similar collecting trips at intervals, in regions where several days 
may profitably be spent. 
Dr. W. G. Farlow, since 1879 professor of cryptogamic botany 
in Flarvard University, died on June 5, 1919. Dr. Farlow was 
the recipient of honorary degrees from Harvard, Strasburg, Glas- 
gow, Wisconsin and Upsala; he was also one of the editors of the 
Annals of Botany, published in England. In May, 1918, the 
Brooklyn Botanic Garden acquired by exchange from Professor 
Farlow over 220 herbarium specimens of parasitic fungi, and in 
November, 1917, he presented the Garden with a copy of Farlow 
and Seymoutr’s “ Provisional host index of the fungi of the United 
States,” Parts I-III, complete. This is a rare publication and 
invaluable in plant disease studies. . 
