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Cormick. This latter paper is an exceedingly important one, 

 being one of the best contributions published on the biology of 

 this serious disease of the white pine. Other papers in the bul- 

 letin deal with spraying and fertilizer experiments. 



Professor H. S. Jackson, of Lafayette, Indiana, spent several 

 days at the Garden in February consulting the library and 

 mycological herbarium in connection with monographic work on 

 the rusts for North American Flora. 



Dr. E. Mead Wilcox, formerly of the Nebraska Agricultural 

 Experiment Station, has been appointed Director of the Santo 

 Domingo Experiment Station, with his headquarters at Santo 

 Domingo. He entered upon the duties of his new position on 

 March I. 



Professor H. C. Beardslee, formerly of Asheville, North Caro- 

 lina, has definitely retired from school work and will devote him- 

 self henceforth to botanical studies in which he is particularly 

 interested. He and Mrs. Beardslee are located for the present 

 at New Smyrna, Florida. Under date of January 25, Professor 

 Beardslee wrote : " I am finding the fungi here very interesting 

 and am getting some good material together." 



Dr. Bernard O. Dodge, formerly of Columbia University, is 

 now connected with the Bureau of Plant Industry at Washington, 

 having entered upon his new duties on February 1. On the eve 

 of his departure from Columbia, Professor and Mrs. Harper 

 invited a number of his friends to a farewell dinner at the Faculty 

 Club. Dr. and Mrs. Dodge were extremely active both in general 

 botany and mycology, and they will be sadly missed in New 

 York. It may be, however, that they will find more time for 

 strictly mycological work in Washington. 



Polyporus excurrens Berk. & Curt. 

 In preparing a brief article on Trametes serpens for the Janu- 

 ary number of Mycologia, I stated that Miss Wakefield had 



