NEWS. 
PROFESSOR L, M. UNDERWOOD, of Columbia University, sailed for Europe 
the first part of June. 
PROFESSOR D. T. MacDouGat, of the University of Minnesota, will 
spend June, July and August in studying the vegetation of the arid regions 
of Arizona, 
PROFESSOR STANLEY COULTER, of Purdue University, is spending his 
summer vacation abroad. He will devote some time to study in the laboratory 
of Professor Dr. Strasburger at Bonn. 
THE IMPORTANT RESULTS of a vacation trip to Mexico in 1896, by which 
forty-five new species of Uredinee and much other valuable mycologic mate- 
rial was secured, has decided Mr. E. W. D. Holway, of Decorah, Ia., to undertake 
another similar trip beyond our southern borders during the present summer. 
LiLoyp’s Photogravures of American fungi give two views of Polyporus 
Berkeleyi Fr. for numbers 23 and 24. The specimen grew at the base of a 
large tree, and was two and a fourth feet across. The photographs and their 
reproductions are skillfully made, and bring out the characteristic features with 
great clearness, 
THE ALABAMA Biological Survey has sent out a long and interesting list of 
plants for exchange, including not only flowering plants, but ferns, mosses, 
by the chief herbaria of this country, and by many foreign herbaria. Particu- 
lar classes of plants, or forms illustrating ecological features, will be furnished 
at the same rates as for full sets. Inquiries and orders may be sent to C. F. 
Baker, Auburn, Ala. 
404 [JuNE 1898 
