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versity, was in residence at the Garden during a part of June 
and July on a scholarship for a study of the fungi of the genus 
Marasmius. 
During the past month, Mr. W. H. Long, forest senecun in 
the Bureau of Plant Industry, made a careful study of the 
various species of fungi represented in the herbarium of the 
Garden which cause heart rot in deciduous trees. 
Mr. Frank J. Kelly, assistant in experimental breeding at the 
University of Wisconsin, spent several days in June at the 
n in an examination of various letters in the collection of 
Darwiniana which contain original and unpublished data per- 
taining to the studies which Charles Darwin made of poultry 
and pigeons 
Francis E. Lloyd, A.M., MacDonald professor of botany in 
McGill University, Montreal, spent several days at the Garden 
about the middle of Jun 
Volume 15, part 1, of North American Flora was published 
June 14, 1913. It comprises 75 pages, and commences the 
treatment of the mosses. Sphagnaceae are by Dr. A. LeRoy 
Andrews, of Cornell University, and the remainder of this part 
chiefly by Mrs. Elizabeth G. Britton. 
Dr. W. C. Coker, professor of botany at the University of 
North Carolina, was at the Garden during a part of June an 
July pursuing his studies on the Saprolegniaceae. 
Dr. Homer Doliver House, a student at the Garden in 1903-04 
seum aid 1907-08, has received the appointment of 
hoe State Botanist of New York. Dr. House has for sev- 
eral years been associate director and lecturer on botany and 
dendrology of the Biltmore Forest School. The botanical ie 
tions of the State of New York are extensive and valu able; the 
have recently been moved into the new Educational Building at 
Albany, and their rearrangement will require a great deal of 
Dr. House's time. 
