News and Notes 



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Mr. E. Bartholomew, of Stockton, Kansas, visited the Garden 

 on June 3 and 4. 



Dr. J. E. Kirkwood, research scholar at the Garden at various 

 times from 1899 to 1904, has been appointed professor of botany 

 and forestry at the University of Montana. 



Dr. Charles E. Fairman, of Lyndonville, New York, spent two 

 weeks at the Garden during the latter part of May, consulting the 

 collection of Lophiostomaceae. 



In the Thesaurus recently completed by Lindau & Sydow, there 

 are 1710 pages, containing about 30,000 titles of " books and 

 articles on mycological subjects. 



A number of new species of fungi from the Philippine Islands 

 are described by H. & P. Sydow in Annales Mycologici for 

 February, 1910. 



A key to the New England species of Cladonia, and a list of 

 the species of the Cladoniaceae occurring in New England, pre- 

 pared by L. W. Riddle, appeared in Rhodora for November, 1909. 



In the Plant World for September, 1909, V. W. Pool discusses 

 the present status of plant pathology ; the article being based 

 upon replies to a circular letter to a number of men prominent in 

 this field. 



At the recent Brussels' congress, it was decided to take the 

 date of publication of Fries' Systema Mycologicum as the start- 

 ing point for the nomenclature of most of the fungi, and to go 

 back to 1753 for the lichens, and to 1801 for certain other 

 groups. 



Professor H. J. Banker, of De Pauw University, Greencastle, 

 Indiana, stopped at the Garden two weeks in June on his way to 

 visit the principal European herbaria in preparation of a mono- 

 graph of the Hydnaceae to appear in North American Flora. 



