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A list of the 1,108 water-color drawings of fungi by the late 

 George E. Morris in the Peabody Museum of Salem, Massa- 

 chusetts, has recently been prepared and published under the 

 authorship of Albert P. Morse. A brief account of Mr. Mor- 

 ris's life and work is given in the introduction to this paper. 



The botanical work of Ezra Michener was outlined by Shear 

 and Stevens in an article in the December number of the Torrey 

 Bulletin. The following paragraph is quoted from a description 

 of the Michener herbarium, the fungi of which are now in Wash- 

 ington. 



" In addition to portions of many of Schweinitz's specimens, as 

 described in an earlier paper, the Michener herbarium contains 

 numerous specimens from the collections of fungi described by 

 Berkeley and Curtis as well as fungi identified by Michener him- 

 self. With the exactness characteristic of all his work Michener 

 indicated on the labels the source of the specimen and by whom 

 it was identified. This collection of fungi which has now been 

 made available for study will prove of great value to American 

 mycologists. The herbarium also contains an excellent collec- 

 tion of lichens, with many authentic specimens from Tuckerman, 

 who identified most of the material." 



The War Emergency Board of the American Phytopathological 

 Society, which was organized at the Pittsburgh meeting during 

 the holidays, held a meeting in Washington, February 9-1 1. The 

 organization of this board is the result of a determination on the 

 part of plant pathologists to do their part in winning the war. 

 Certain problems of nation-wide importance are being handled. 

 At the special meeting, reports on these projects were made. 

 A census of all persons able to do pathological work is being 

 taken and encouraging progress was noted. Other projects on 

 Fungicides and Machinery, Emergency Research, Plant Disease 

 Survey, and Crop Loss Estimates were considered at some length. 

 Plant pathologists have in the war conditions a great opportunity 

 for service to the commonwealth, for there is no more vital 

 feature in maintaining maximum crop production than that of 

 the reduction of leakage due to crop diseases. 



