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Professor John Dearness, of London, Canada, has been spend- 

 ing the summer at Truro, Nova Scotia, engaged in making a col- 

 lection of fungi. 



Dr. C. H. Peck describes twenty-two new species of fungi, 

 mostly agarics, in the June number of the Torrey Bulletin. More 

 than half of these were collected by Professor C. F. Baker at 

 Claremont, California. 



The first number of the new botanical journal Dorfleria, pub- 

 lished by Dorfler in Vienna, appeared in May, 1909, and was 

 widely distributed among botanists. This journal is intended to 

 be an international organ supplying a botanical biblography and 

 reporting upon everything that happens in the botanical world. 



Dr. W. A. Murrill, Assistant Director, visited Mountain Lake, 

 Virginia, in July and obtained nearly a thousand specimens of 

 fungi, mostly large fleshy species. This region is moist and 

 heavily wooded, the elevation being over four thousand feet, and 

 its fungous flora has been up to this time practically unknown, 

 although by inference closely related to that of the high mountains 

 of West Virginia and North Carolina. 



An exceedingly useful pamphlet on the Diseases of Deciduous 

 Forest Trees, embodying the results of many years of observa- 

 tion and experiment, was issued in June, 1909, as Bulletin No. 

 149 of the Bureau of Plant Industry, U. S. Department of Agri- 

 culture, under the joint authorship of Hermann von Schrenk and 

 Perley Spaulding. This bulletin contains 66 pages of text, a 

 bibliography of 114 citations, and 10 excellent half-tone plates. 

 The more important diseases of deciduous forest trees are here 

 discussed, leaving those peculiar to shade and ornamental trees 

 for another publication. 



Dr. Peck's report for 1908, issued in July, 1909, as Museum 

 Bulletin 131, is a volume of 202 pages and 4 colored plates, con- 

 taining, besides the usual reports on additions to the herbarium, 

 a monographic treatment of the New York species of Lentinus 



