NOTES AND BRIEF ARTICLES 



Professor John A. Stevenson has recently been called from his 

 work in Porto Rico and is now a pathological inspector for the 

 Federal Horticultural Board in Washington. 



Dr. M. W. Gardner resigned the position of assistant pathol- 

 ogist in the Bureau of Plant Industry to take up the investigation 

 of vegetable diseases at the Purdue University Experiment Sta- 

 tion, Lafayette, Indiana, beginning February i. 



Mr. Edw. C. Johnson, dean of the Division of Extension of the 

 Kansas State Agricultural College, has resigned to accept the 

 position of dean of the College of Agriculture and director of 

 the Experiment Station, Washington State College, Pullman, 

 Washington. 



Mr. J. A. McClintock has resigned his position as extension 

 specialist in cotton, truck, and forage crop diseases in Georgia, 

 to which he was appointed under a cooperative agreement between 

 the United States Department of Agriculture and the Georgia 

 State Experiment Station, with headquarters at Experiment, 

 Georgia. 



An important paper by Otto Reinking on Philippine Plant 

 Diseases appeared in the March number of Phytopathology. 



Mr. O. F. Gleason has recently sent in specimens of Pleurotns 

 ostreatus collected early in March of this year. He states that he 

 found no mushrooms growing in February. 



A paper on the sporadic appearance of non-edible mushrooms 

 in cultures of ordinary cultivated species was contributed by 



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