NEWS AND NOTES 



Dr. W. A. Murrill, assistant director of the Garden and editor 

 of Mycologia, recently spent several weeks in Europe examining 

 types of fungi in various European herbaria. 



Mr. F. D. Kern, assistant to Dr. J. C. Arthur of the agricul- 

 tural experiment station, Lafayette, Indiana, has taken up his 

 residence in New York City as fellow in botany in Columbia 

 University. As part of his major work, Mr. Kern will continue 

 his researches on the genus Gymno sporangium. 



Mr. Guy West Wilson, for several years past professor of 

 biology in Upper Iowa University, Fayette, Iowa, and formerly 

 research scholar in the New York Botanical Garden, has recently 

 accepted the position of assistant in vegetable pathology in the 

 North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station. 



Mr. Wilmer G. Stover, formerly assistant in the department of 

 botany at Miami University, has been appointed instructor in 

 botany in the Ohio State University, to supply the place made 

 vacant by assistant professor Griggs, who is on leave of absence 

 for one year. In addition to other duties, Mr. Stover will have 

 charge of a course in mycology and fungous diseases of plants for 

 the agricultural college students. 



Mr. B. O. Dodge, of Columbia University, accompanied by 

 Mrs. Dodge, spent a week in September at White Post, Virginia, 

 in the Shenandoah Valley, collecting fungi. Special attention 

 v\^as given to parasitic fungi occurring on the estate of Mr. 

 Graham F. Brandy. 



Mr. Fred J. Seaver, director of the laboratories, spent a part 

 of August and September collecting fungi in the Rocky Moun- 



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