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NOTES, NEWS AND COMMENT. 
Dr. Roland M. Harper recently spent several days at the 
Garden following his return from a ten months stay in Alabama. 
Dr. David R. Sumstine, of Pittsburgh, has been awarded a 
research scholarship for the month of July to enable him to 
continue his researches on certain groups of imperfect fungi. 
Dr. E. P. Meinecke, forest pathologist in the Bureau of Plant 
Industry, and at present stationed at San Francisco, California, 
recently spent several days at the Garden consulting that part 
of the mycological herbarium relating to the diseases of forest 
trees. 
At a meeting of the Board of Managers, held January 30, 1912, 
Mr. James A. Scrymser was elected Treasurer of the New York 
Botanical Garden to succeed Mr. C. F. Cox. Mr. Scrymser has 
een Chairman of the Finance Committee of the Board of 
Managers since the organization of the Garden, and by his 
acceptance of the office of Treasurer continues and supplements 
his valuable services to the institution. 
Professor R. A. Harper has given to the Garden his collection 
of California fungi consisting of 232 numbers, made during the 
winter and spring of 1911, while he was at the University of 
California. A large majority of the specimens are polypores or 
