NEWS AND NOTES 



Cornell University has received an appropriation for three new 

 buildings for the New York State College of Agriculture. 



Dr. C. B. Plowright, a distinguished English naturalist, who 

 devoted much of his time to the study of . fungi, died early in 

 May, at the age of fifty-one years. 



Dr. E. Linhard and Dr. Kolpin Ravn, of Denmark, are visiting 

 America to observe methods of forage crop production and ap- 

 plied plant pathology. 



An international American scientific congress will be held in 

 Buenos Aires from July lo to 25, in celebration of the centenary 

 of the revolution of May, 1810. 



Dr. E. P. Meinicke has been called to Washington as expert in 

 the Office of Investigations in Forest Pathology, Bureau of Plant 

 Industry. This office has undertaken a vigorous campaign 

 against forest diseases. 



A very important paper by A. Potebnia on the microscopic 

 fungi of middle Russia, containing many species not previously 

 described and many figures, appeared in the February number of 

 A finales Mycologici. 



A list of the Hchens of Ohio, by J. C. Hambleton, appeared in 

 the Ohio Naturalist for January, 19 10. 



A. Sartory has investigated two species of Chanterel, C. tubae- 

 formis Fr. and C. aurantiacus Wulf., supposed to be poisonous, 

 and has come to the conclusion that they are harmless (Bull. Soc. 

 Myc. Fr. 25 : 253, 254. 1909). 



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