NEWS AND NOTES 



Mr. Fred J. Seaver, director of the laboratories, left August 

 15 for Colorado, where he will spend several weeks collecting 

 fungi. 



Professor D. R. Sumstine, curator of the fungus collection 

 of the Carnegie Museum at Pittsburg, held a research scholar- 

 ship at the Garden during the month of July. 



Dr. N. L. Britton, director-in-chief, accompanied by Mrs. 

 Britton and Dr. C. Stuart Gager, recently appointed director of 

 the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, sailed for Cuba August 20 to 

 continue botanical exploration in the western part of that island. 



Miss Mary F, Barrett, of the State Normal School at Mont- 

 clair, New Jersey, spent the month of July at the Garden study- 

 ing the collections of gelatinous fungi, in preparation of a mon- 

 ograph of this group for North American Flora. 



A treatment by F. L. Stevens of the chief fungous diseases of 

 the apple and pear from a practical standpoint appears in bulletin 

 206 of the North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station, 

 dated March, 19 10. 



Professor William J. Beal, having completed forty years of 

 continuous service, will resign his professorship in botany at the 

 Agricultural College of Michigan. 



Professor John M. Macfarlane, of the University of Pennsyl- 

 vania, is planning to spend the coming year in study in several 

 botanical centers of Europe. 



An extensive illustrated paper on " Les Champignons dits Am- 

 brosia," by J. Beauverie, has very recently appeared (Ann. Sci. 

 Nat. Bot. IX. 11: 31-73. pi. 1-5. 1910). The fungi considered, 



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