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I 857; graduated from Oberlin College in 1881 and from the 

 Chicago Theological Seminary in 1887; took a Ph.D. degree in 

 Semitics at Leipzig in 1891 ; received the honorary degree of 

 D.D. at Iowa College in 1902 and Oberlin in 1908; and for nine- 

 teen years, from 1892 to 191 1, held the chair of Semitics and 

 Comparative Religion at the Chicago Theological Seminary. 

 From the time he retired because of ill health until shortly be- 

 fore his death, he was actively engaged in botanical studies, and 

 had always been an ardent lover of plants. His botanical col- 

 lections, which have been deposited in the Field Museum at 

 Chicago, include a very full series of superb photographs and 

 stereoscopic views of the fleshy fungi. Readers of Mycologia 

 will remember an article on Hypholoma contributed by him in 

 1918; while his handsomely illustrated papers on Pholiota, 

 Stropharia, and Hypholoma, published in the Transactions of 

 the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, 1912-1914, are well known 

 to all students of the gill-fungi. Dr. Harper's sustained activity 

 in mycology and his success in this field were due in part to the 

 sympathetic interest and help of his brother, Robert A. Harper, 

 Professor of Botany in Columbia University. 



W. A. Murrill 



A long list of Long Island fungi, prepared by Burnham and 

 Latham, appeared as a " second supplementary list " in Torreya 

 for January-February, 1921. Most of the species included be- 

 long to inconspicuous groups. 



" The Fungal Diseases of the Common Larch," by W. E. 

 Hiley, contains over 200 pages, 23 plates, and 28 figures. The 

 work includes a discussion of the various larch diseases, a sum- 

 mary of the relations of the. larch to its diseases, and an extensive 

 bibliography. 



Bacterial wilt of the castor bean forms the subject of a well- 

 illustrated paper by E. F. Smith and G. H. Godfrey published in 

 the Journal of Agricultural Research for May 16, 192 1. Dis- 

 eased plants were first received from Townsend, Georgia, where 



