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mycologists died last year, among them Dr. P. A. Karsten, of 
Finland; Dr. Paul Hariot, of France; Professor George Massee, 
of England; and Dr. Charles H. Peck, of America. 
At a recent meeting of the Torrey Botanical Club, Dr. W. A. 
Murrill spoke of his investigations of the gill-fungi of tropical 
in them compared with those of temperate regions. Of the 525 
ropical d by Dr. Murrill in his studies, 300 have 
been deseribed by ne as new. 
The poplar canker, Dothichiza populea, was very destructive 
last year. is disease was introduced from Europe several 
years ago, and is now quite widely distributed in New York and 
New Jersey, as well as elsewhere. The tree most seriously 
affected is the Lombardy poplar, although the Carolina poplar 
suffers considerably. No remedy has been found. The best 
means of checking the disease consists in cutting and burning 
affected trees as soon as they are discovered and in keeping a 
careful watch over nursery stock 
In the latest number of the memoirs (Memorias) of the Cuban 
“Felipe Poey”’ society of natural history, the general secretary, 
ry of the 
branches of natural science. He closes his sketch with a brief 
work done by Dr. and Mrs. Britton and other members of the 
staff of the New York Botanical Garden upon the flora of Cuba, 
in codperation with Brother Leén and Dr. Juan T. Roi 
Professor Romyn Hitchcock, of Ithaca, New York, visited the 
Garden on March 2 for the purpose of consulting the collections 
of Characeae and the literature bearing upon this group of plants. 
