NEWS AND NOTES 



Dr. W. A. Murrill, who left New York, October 13, for a 

 collecting trip in Washington, Oregon, and California, reports 

 very favorable conditions for the collection of fleshy fungi on the 

 Pacific coast. 



Dr. Mel. T. Cook has recently resigned his position as patholo- 

 gist in Delaware Agricultural College to accept a similar position 

 in Rutgers College, New Jersey. 



Mr. A. B. Stout, of the University of Wisconsin, has been ap- 

 pointed director of the laboratories in the New York Botanical 

 Garden to succeed Mr. Fred J. Seaver, who has been transferred 

 to a curatorship. 



Professor R. A. Harper is conducting a series of seminars for 

 the benefit of the graduate students of Columbia University, the 

 subject considered being the reproduction of the highef fungi. 

 The first of the series, which was held in the main laboratory of 

 the New York Botanical Garden, Saturday, November 4, consisted 

 of an introduction covering some of the earliest literature of the 

 subject. 



Professor J. C. Arthur and Dr. Frank D. Kern spent a month 

 -during the past summer on a field trip in Colorado. They were^ 

 chiefly interested in observing and collecting the rusts, especially 

 those heteroecious forms of which the life-histories are still', 

 unknown. They report that the trip was very successful and! 

 satisfactory. They were accompanied on several expeditions by 

 Professor E. Bethel, of the East Denver High School, who ren- 

 dered much valuable assistance. 



A New Paint-destroying Fungus. — Mr. George Massee in the 



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