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Bulletin 380 of the United States Department of Agriculture, 

 by C. L. Shear and others, discusses the taxonomy, morphology, 

 and physiology of the chestnut canker fungus and related species. 

 It is stated that the fungus causing the chestnut canker is actively 

 parasitic only on the chestnut, but occurs also on maple, hickory, 

 oak, and sumac. 



The American Journal of Botany for April contains a valuable 

 illustrated article by A. W. Blizzard on the development of some 

 species of agarics. The species investigated are: Omphalia 

 chrysophylla, Clitocybe adirondackensis, Clitocybe cerussata, and 

 Clitopilus noveboracensis. 



In connection with the series of articles on Japanese fungi now 

 appearing in Mycologia, it may be said that Dr. Tanaka always 

 translates the explanation of the figures and in case some my- 

 cologist should wish to study the illustrations in the original 

 Japanese article he would be glad to furnish him with a type- 

 written copy of the translation of the explanation of the figures. 



Dr. Charles Horton Peck, former state botanist of New York, 

 died at his home in Albany on July 11. Dr. Peck's official term 

 of scientific service began in 1867, and extended over a period of 

 forty-six years. He retired on account of illness and age in 

 191 3, and at the time of his death was in his eighty-fifth year. 



Dr. John A. Elliott, associate plant pathologist of the Dela- 

 ware College Experiment Station, has been elected plant patholo- 

 gist of the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station, to fill the 

 vacancy created by the resignation of Professor J. Lee Hewitt, 

 who has become secretary and chief inspector of the Arkansas 

 State Plant Board. 



Charles Fuller Baker, professor of agronomy in the college 

 of agriculture of the University of the Philippines, has been 



