NOTES AND BRIEF ARTICLES 



^Unsigned notes are by the editor. 1 



Oimng to the increased cost of publication, the price of Myco- 

 LOGiA zifill be advanced four dollars ($4.00) at the beginning of 

 ip20. This price zmll also apply to back volumes; zvhich can still 

 be supplied in complete sets. 



Dr. Charles E. Fairman, of Lyndonville, New York, spent the 

 first part of July studying certain collections of fungi in the her- 

 barium of the Garden. He is preparing manuscript for North 

 American Flora. 



Mrs. Flora W. Patterson, mycologist of the Department of 

 Agriculture at Washington, visited the Garden on June 24 for 

 consultation regarding a group of fungi she is monographing for 

 North American Flora. 



Dr. C. T. Gregory, who for the past six months has been em- 

 ployed by the Department of Agriculture as extension pathologist 

 in the control of truck crop diseases in Indiana, has accepted the 

 position of plant pathologist of the Virginia Truck Experiment 

 Station, Norfolk, Virginia. 



Dr. M. F. Barrus has returned to Cornell University to re- 

 sume his duties as plant pathologist after an absence of several 

 months spent mainly in the employ of the Department of Agri- 

 culture as pathological adviser in extension work on the control 

 of truck crop diseases in the North and West. 



Dr. W. H. Tisdale, who left the Department of Agriculture a 

 few months ago to become plant pathologist of the North Caro- 

 lina Agricultural Experiment Station, has been reinstated and 



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