MYCOLOGICAL NOTES 



Issued by C. G. LLOYD. 



224 West Court Street, - - CINCINNATI, OHIO. 



SUBSCRIPTION PRICE. A little personal interest on the part 

 of the recipient in picking up and sending to my address, specimens of 

 the larger fungi. All are desired excepting specimens of fleshy Agarics. 

 Simply dry the specimens and send them in. 



PROFESSOR C. H. KAUFFMANN. 



The photograph this month is of Professor C. H. Kauffmann, who 

 is well known among the mycological workers of this country. He is 

 a graduate of Harvard University, and is a professor in botany and 

 curator of the Cryptogamic herbarium of the University of Michigan. 

 Professor Kauffmann is one of the few American mycologists who has 

 systematically studied our American agarics. He specialized on the 

 genus Cortinarius, and is, we think, the only one in this country who 

 has any knowledge of this difficult genus. We met Professor Kauff- 

 mann some years ago in Sweden, where he was making a special study 

 of the Swedish Cortinarii. He is a close and careful student, and a 

 liberal contributor to our museum. Rarely a season passes that we 

 do not get from Professor Kauffmann a nice sending of rare and 

 critically studied species. 



Professor Kauffmann's ancestors were of the good old Pennsyl- 

 vania Dutch stock, that has produced such workers as Schweinitz 

 and Dr. Herbst. Some years ago we spent several weeks visiting Dr. 

 Herbst in the section where the Pennsylvania Dutch reside, and we 

 have a warm place in our heait for anyone who has sprung from this 

 stock. Professor Kauffmann has written a number of interesting 

 works, and has now in press a systematic arrangement of the agarics 

 of Michigan, which we hope will be shortly published. 



Professor Kauffmann is a conservative mycological worker, not 

 tinctured with the ideas of the modern name-jugglers, and we hope 

 his forthcoming work can be used as a basis for a manual of American 

 agarics. Excepting the monographs of Professor Peck, there 'is very 

 little now on the subject of much value. 



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