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Baden makes is that after five or six days further germination 

 of spores and growth of the germ tubes already formed is in- 

 hibited through the action of anolher form of bacillus present 

 in the cultures. The characteristics of these two types of 

 bacilli have not been determined. Miss Baden gives no explana- 

 tion of how Coprinus spores free from bacteria may be obtained. 

 That Coprinus spores germinate in the presence of bacteria is 

 well known to the mycologist. The problem lies in growing 

 spores of various fungi in pure culture. Then and only then 

 may we dare to approach the question — "What is the origin 

 of the binucleated condition in the Basidiomycetes?" 



Michael Levine 



NEWS ITEMS 



Dr. Henry S. Conard, professor of botany in Grinnell College, 

 Iowa, will be in residence at Harvard University during the 

 second semester of the current school year as "Visiting Lec- 

 turer," on the Exchange Relation of the colleges of the middle 

 west. 



Mr. R. C. Faulwetter at Columbia University has been 

 appointed Plant Pathologist at the Experiment Station of 

 South , Carolina at Clemson College. Mr. Faulwetter's new 

 duties begin in January. 



The friends and colleagues of Professor Peck, who has recently 

 retired from the position of New York State Botanist after 

 nearly fifty years of service, have expressed a wish to commem- 

 orate his important labors in the field of mycology by placing 

 in the new rooms of the New York State Museum an exhibit of 

 reproductions of the Edible and Poisonous Fungi of New York. 

 Further information may be obtained from Dr. J. M. Clarke, 

 Education Building, Albany, N. Y. 



At the Columbus meeting of the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science a group of botanists and zoologists 

 interested In ecology organized the American Ecological Society. 

 This action was the culmination of a meeting In Philadelphia in 

 1914, reported in Torreya for November, 1915. The first 



