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Professor George F. Atkinson, of Cornell University, attended 
Cl ed at th 
ence to the large number of types of gill-fungi which it contains. 
Mr. Paul C. Standley, of the United States National Museum 
spent a week at the Garden studying the collections of the 
madder family in connection with his monograph of that family 
for North American Flora 
A large collection of excellent herbarium specimens of some 
of the rarer plants of the Hawaiian Islands has been sent to the 
Garden by Professor Joseph F. Rock, of the College of Hawaii. 
Professor J. F. Adams, of Pennsylvania State College, is on 
leave of absence for a year and is i pais the time at Columbi 
of a group of microscopic fuses many of which occur as parasites 
on living plants. 
Dr. Charles F. Fairman, of Lyndonville, New York, recently 
rr 
. Dr. Fairm. 
known to mycologists both in America and Euro aad his 
contributions to mycological literature are numerous. 
Professor H. H. Whetzel was a recent visitor at the Garden. 
He is interested in Las pathology and secured while here infor- 
mation and material to be used in investigations which a 
being conducted < him at Cornell University. 
n excellent edible nite Boletus luteus, with tubes 
ills 
trees east and north of Conservatory Range 1. This was noticed 
last year, but the spawn has spread very considerably since that 
time 
