NOTES AND BRIEF ARTICLES 



[Unsigned notes are by the editor] 



Professor Arthur H. Graves, formerly of Yale University, has 

 been called to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden to take charge of the 

 Department of Public Instruction and to devote as much time as 

 possible to mycological work. 



Mr. E. J. Butler, Director of the Imperial Bureau of Mycology 

 Kew, England, who has made a tour of parts of the United States 

 in the interest of pure mycology, visited the Garden on August 18 

 and sailed shortly afterward for England. 



Dr. K. Miyabe, Professor of Botany in the Imperial University 

 at Sapporo, Japan, called at the Garden August 20 and 22 on his 

 return from the Conference of Cereal Diseases held at St. Paul, 

 Minnesota. He sailed from San Francisco September 17, having 

 been in the United States since the first of July. 



Dr. E. A. Burt, of the Missouri Botanical Garden, visited the 

 Garden on August 16 to examine certain species of Clavaria in the 

 mycological herbarium. He had examined material of this genus 

 at Albany, Cambridge, and elsewhere, and returned to St. Louis 

 by way of New York and Philadelphia. 



Mr. A. A. Pearson, Treasurer of the British Mycological So- 

 ciety, visited the Garden early in October before he sailed home to 

 England. He was much interested in our native fungous flora 

 and made several excursions into the woods to collect and study 

 the more conspicuous forms of fleshy and woody fungi. 



Dr. G. R. Bisby has applied for leave of absence from the Mani- 

 toba Agricultural College at Winnipeg, beginning October, 1921, 

 to accept a position with the British Imperial Bureau of Mycology, 



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