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Miss Adeline Ames, a graduate student at Cornell University, 
spent the month of February at the Garden studying the collec- 
tion of Polyporaceae with special reference to the species occur- 
ring in the United States. 
The collection of gill-fungi belonging to the herbarium of 
Stanford University, California, has been sent to the Garden for 
study. A large number of duplicates will be retained and added 
to the mycological herbarium. 
Dr. N. L. Britton, director-in-chief, attended the exercises in 
commemoration of the one hundred and twenty-fifth anniversary 
of the University of Pittsburgh on February 28; and was honored 
with the degree of Doctor of Laws as an “‘ eminent botanist and 
director-in-chief of the New York Botanical Garden,”’ together 
with certain other ‘‘ representatives of various institutions and 
individuals who have rendered distinguished services to the cause 
of learning and to humanity.” 
A collection of fleshy fungi from Sendai, Japan, has been 
received from Professor A. Yasuda. This is of special interest 
in connection with the study of species found on the Pacific 
coast, and may aid in determining the relationships existing 
between our far western flora and that of certain parts of Asia. 
Number 27, volume 8, of the Bulletin of the New York Botan- 
ical Garden was issued March 14, 1912. This number which 
consists of eighty-eight pages contains the report of the Director- 
in-Chief and other official documents. : 
Dr. W. A. Murrill represented the Garden at the convention 
called by the Governor of Pennsylvania at Harrisburg, February 
20 and 21, to consider ways and means of preventing the spread 
of the chestnut canker. 
Dr. William Trelease has resigned the directorship of the 
Missouri Botanical Garden, which position he has held since the 
death of its founder, Henry Shaw, in 1880. 
Dr. and Mrs. N. L. Britton, accompanied by Mr. J. F. Cowell, 
director of the Buffalo Botanic Garden, sailed March 2 for Cuba, 
where several weeks will be spent in botanical exploration. 
The first number of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden Record, 
