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The first number on the scientific program consisted of a paper 

 on "Some midwinter algae of Long Island Sound," by Dr. 

 Marshall A. Howe. The paper will be published in full in June 

 Torre YA. 



The second paper was presented by Dr. Michael Levine on 

 "The origin and development of lamellae in Coprinus micaceus." 



Adjournment followed. 



B. O. Dodge, 



Secretary 

 NEWS ITEMS 



The board of trustees and the director of the Missouri Botanical 

 Garden have issued invitations to the celebration of the twenty- 

 fifth anniversary of the organization of the garden, to be held in 

 St. Louis, October fifteenth and sixteenth. Addresses will be 

 made by the director, Dr. G. T. Moore, and by many visiting 

 botanists. Some of the foreign speakers, who include professors 

 Wille, Lipsky, Briquet, Czapek, Fitting and Klebs, may have 

 difficulty in reaching St. Louis on account of the war, but "it is 

 known that all of those on the program will make every effort 

 to come." The celebration will not be postponed. Besides the 

 speeches the celebration includes inspection of the buildings 

 and grounds, a motor trip through the city, and a dinner by the 

 trustees to invited guests at the Liederkranz Club. 



Professor Guy West Wilson, who during the past year has 

 been employed by the Federal Government as an agent of 

 the laboratory of forest pathology in the investigation of the 

 chestnut bark disease in cooperation with Dr. Mel T. Cook 

 of the New Jersey Experiment Station, has been appointed to 

 the newly created chair of mycology and plant pathology in 

 the State University of Iowa at Iowa City, Iowa, with the rank 

 of assistant professor. 



