NOTES AND BRIEF ARTICLES 



Professor John Dearness, one of the editors of Mycologia, 

 was recently appointed principal of the Normal School at Lon- 

 don, Ontario, Canada. 



Dr. V. H. Young, formerly assistant professor of botany at the 

 State University of Iowa, is now head of the department of 

 botany at the University of Idaho. 



Professor G. F. Atkinson, with Miss Gertrude Douglass and 

 Miss Edwina Smiley as assistants, spent most of the past sum- 

 mer between Florida and Washington, D. C, collecting and pho- 

 tographing fleshy fungi. About the middle of September he 

 left for the Pacific Coast to continue the work of exploration. 



Dr. Charlotte Elliott, of Dell Rapids, South Dakota, has been 

 appointed assistant pathologist in the Laboratory of Plant Pathol- 

 ogy, Bureau of Plant Industry. 



Mr. G. H. Martin, Jr., formerly a teaching fellow in plant 

 pathology at the University of Washington, has accepted the posi- 

 tion of plant pathologist in the Plant Disease Survey, Bureau of 

 Plant Industry. 



Dr. F. A. Wolf, for several years in charge of the botany and 

 plant pathology work at the North Carolina Agricultural College 

 and Experiment Station, has been given a commission as first 

 lieutenant in the sanitary corps of the Army. 



The rare Venenarius glabriceps, figured in Mycologia for Sep- 

 tember, 1916, was found again in the New York Botanical Gar- 

 den, on September 14, by F. F. Wilmousky. 



* News has just been received that Professor Atkinson died of pneumonia 

 in a hospital in Tacoma about the middle of November. Details are not 

 available. 



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