NOTES AND BRIEF ARTICLES 



Dr. Elias J. Durand, of the University of Missouri, has been 

 appointed professor of botany in the University of Minnesota. 



Dr. Helen M. Gilkey, of the University of California, has been 

 appointed assistant professor of botany and curator of the herbar- 

 ium in the Oregon Agricultural College, to succeed the late 

 H. S. Hammon. 



Professor Bethel, of Colorado, has been appointed a pathologist 

 in the Office of Investigations in Forest Pathology. 



Dr. L. M. Massey, of Cornell University, is now in extension 

 work on the control of truck crop diseases in New Jersey, with 

 headquarters at New Brunswick. 



Mr. G. B. Ramsey, of the Maine Experiment Station, has been 

 appointed extension pathologist in Maine, with headquarters at 

 Orono. 



Prof. A. H. Graves has been studying the problem of disease 

 resistance in chestnut trees about New York City, in areas where 

 the canker first appeared, and finds some very interesting things. 

 His results, however, are not yet sufficiently complete for 

 publication. 



A double number of the Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scien- 

 tific Society for June, 1918, is devoted to the Lactarias of North 

 Carolina by W. C. Coker. As usual, the descriptions are accom- 

 panied by very handsome plates. Fifty species are recognized 

 for the state, of which the following are described as new : L. 

 Allardii, L. subtorminosns, L. furcatns, L. coleopteris, L. Curtisii, 

 L. sub plinth 0 gains, and L. lentus. 



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