NEWS AND NOTES 



Frequent requests are made for sample copies of the first num- 

 bers of Mycologia. We should be glad to receive duplicate 

 copies of these numbers that are not in use. 



The importance of the subject of pyrophilous fungi leads us to 

 request those interested to make careful notes on all forms ob- 

 served during the summer and autumn and to send them with the 

 dried specimens to Mr. Seaver for critical examination. 



We learn from Science that the Tennessee legislature has passed 

 a bill giving twenty-five per cent, of the state's revenue for edu- 

 cation, seven per cent, being for the university and experiment 

 station. 



Mr. Elam Bartholomew, editor and publisher of Fungi Colum- 

 biani, left his home in Stockton, Kansas, in June for a collecting 

 trip of ten weeks on the Pacific Coast. 



The mycological papers presented at the recent Baltimore meet- 

 ing of the A. A. A. S. are reviewed in the number of Science 

 issued June 4, 1909. 



A valuable paper by F. A. Stockdale on the fungus diseases of 

 cocoanuts in the West Indies appeared in the West Indian Bul- 

 letin 9: 361-381. 1909. 



The Garden has recently received from Pere Duss 113 packets 



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