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Professor H. S. Jackson contributed a number of articles to 

 recent volumes of the Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of 

 Sciences on the Smuts and Rusts of Delaware and Indiana. 

 These papers contain a great deal of valuable information. 



An article on a wilt disease of maples, by L. A. Zimm, ap- 

 peared in Phytopathology 8: 80, 81. 1918. This disease is said 

 to cause the young shoots of several common species of maples 

 to lose their leaves and gradually die. 



A descriptive list of the diseases of sugar-cane in tropical 

 America, by J. R. Johnston and others, appeared in the West In- 

 dian Bulletin for 191 8, pages 275 to 308. The list is a long and 

 important one and what is there reported may be considered quite 

 authoritative. 



It is reported that because of the similarity of climate and soil 

 conditions of Texas and the land upon which the Jewish '' Re- 

 public of Judea " will be built, the Zionist Society has retained 

 Dr. J. J. Taubenhaus, plant pathologist of the Texas Agricultural 

 Experiment Station, for a high agricultural post in the new 

 nation. 



A list of unreported fungi for 1915 and 1916, by C. H. Kauff- 

 man, has appeared as a reprint from the 19th report of the Mich- 

 igan Academy of Sciences. This list, which is quite a long one 

 for certain families, has appended to it an index to the hosts and 

 woody substrata of hymenomycetes in Michigan. 



A text-book entitled "Applied Economic Botany," by Dr. Mel. 

 T. Cook, has just appeared from the press of the J. B. Lippincott 

 Company. In the 261 pages of text illustrated with 151 figures, 

 there is a chapter on plant diseases which gives in very condensed 

 and simple form some of the most important facts regarding this 

 highly specialized subject. 



