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Dr. W. C. Coker spent the Christmas holidays, December 28 

 to January 8, at the Garden consulting the library and mycological 

 herbarium. He was checking up a number of fungi from North 

 Carolina, in various groups, for early publication. 



Mr. V. C. Dunlap, of Cornell University, spent several days 

 during the Christmas holidays examining specimens of Pleurotus 

 in the mycological herbarium. He was a graduate student with 

 Professor Atkinson before he was drafted in 1918. He is now 

 Professor Rowlee's assistant. 



Mr. H. S. Bergman, formerly assistant pathologist in fruit 

 disease investigations, Bureau of Plant Industry, has become pro- 

 fessor of botany in the College of Hawaii, Honolulu. 



The following appointments have been made in Cereal Disease 

 Investigations, Bureau of Plant Industry : Miss Florence M. 

 Smith, from Syracuse University, Miss Jessie I. Wood, from 

 Leland Stanford University, Miss Grace O. Furrow, from the 

 University of Chicago, and Mr. George H. Gillespie, who was 

 engaged during the past summer in the campaign for barberry 

 eradication. 



Botrytis cinerea is now held responsible for various kinds of 

 injury to many kinds of plants, and new evidences of its injurious 

 attacks are continually being brought to light. In the Kew Bul- 

 letin for 191 7, an account is given of the killing of a tree, 

 Aesculus pavia, by this fungus. 



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