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Mycologia 



At a recent meeting of the Botanical Society of America at 

 St. Louis, a request was presented to the Council of the Society 

 for the establishment of a Mycological Section. The form of 

 this request was as follows : 



" We, the undersigned members of the Botanical Society, con- 

 sider it highly desirable and necessary, for the better promotion 

 of mycological research and the more efficient presentation of 

 papers on fungi, 'that a separate section be established and a seg- 

 regated program be given at our annual meetings. ' 



" Therefore, we ask the Council of the Botanical Society to 

 institute at this time a new section, to be called the Mycological 

 Section, to include papers on fungi in all phases, in so far as 

 these do not conflict with the interests of the American Phyto- 

 pathological Society." 



The Council granted the request and, at the instance of Secre- 

 tary Schramm, a meeting of the signers of the memorandum was 

 called and Dr. C. H. Kauffman was elected chairman of the new 

 Section. 



Pier Andrea Saccardo 



Professor Saccardo, so well known to mycologists, died at 

 Padua, Italy, February 12, 1920. Born at Treviso, April 23, 

 1845, ne was assistant in the Botanical Institute of the University 

 of Padua, 1866-72 ; professor of natural history in the Technical 

 Institute at Padua, 1869-79; became professor of botany and 

 director of the botanic garden of the University of Padua in 

 1880; and retired in later years as professor emeritus. For a 

 list of his publications, see Lindau & Sydow's " Thesaurus." 



The writer has visited him at Padua and also at Selva, where 

 one of his summer homes was located, and always found him 

 busy with plans regarding his " Sylloge." Shortly before his 

 death, he sent in a paper for publication in Mycologia, which will 

 appear in . the next number. The passing of Saccardo adds 

 another distinguished name to the heavy toll of mycologists taken 

 during the past few years. 



W. A. MURRILL 



