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to Newfield, New Jersey, the former home of Mr. J. B. Ellis, 
whose extensive collections of fungi were several years ago added 
to the Garden collections. 
The object of this trip was to collect more material of certain 
species of plant rusts which were described several years ago 
rom material collected near Newfield. y following the direc- 
tions on the packets of these fungi in the Ellis collection, he was 
able to accomplish the object of his trip. A point brought out 
by Dr. Kern was the value of indicating carefully the type locality 
of new species of fungi as a guide for collectors who might want 
to duplicate these collections in later year: 
Dr. M. A. Howe commented on the a of Olsson-Seffer, 
an account of which appeared in the JournaL for May. 
Briefer notes were made by Drs. W. A. Murrill and C. A. 
Darling and Mr. B. O. Dedge. 
FRED J. SEAVER. 
JOHN J. CROOKE 
Mr. John J. Crooke, a member of the New York Botanical 
Garden Corporation since 1896 died at his residence, Great Hills, 
Staten Island, on April 22, 1911, in the eighty-eighth year of his 
age. 
Throughout his long life Mr. Crooke was devoted to all phases 
of natural and physical science. His collegiate education was 
at Yale, under Professor Benjamin Silliman. He was an inti- 
mate friend of Professor John Torrey and of Professor John S. 
Newberry, of Columbia, and his acquaintances included most of 
the prominent American men of science of the latter half of the 
nineteenth century. His investigational work was mostly in the 
domains of chemistry, physics and metallurgy, but he accumulated 
large and important collections of shells, birds, minerals and 
plants, and built a house to contain them on his Staten Island 
estate, which also contained at one time a fine working natural 
science library, since distributed. Some years ago, he presented 
the American Museum of Natural History with his shells and 
