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inaugurated. The next meeting of the societies will be held in 

 Cleveland; and the one following in Atlanta. 



The pathological exhibits at the Washington Meeting were of 

 great interest, and the room was an excellent meeting-place for 

 botanists of all classes. The tables and walls were filled with 

 specimens, cultures, charts, photographs, and colored drawings. 

 Undoubtedly, this feature will require next year a larger room, 

 with more j^hairs and tables, for the use of those desiring to 

 make a careful* study of the exhibits. It will also, let us hope, 

 have a central location as it did this year, and be freely used by 

 botanists at all times while the meeting is in progress. 



The Swedish mycological Nestor, Professor Doctor Hampus 

 von Post, died at Upsala, August i6, 191 1, nearly 89 years of 

 age. As is well known, he was. one of the most diligent and 

 assiduous contributors of Elias Fries. Not a few of the new 

 species described in Fries' later works were detected and dis- 

 tinguished by him, and quite a number of Fries' Icones, both 

 published and unpublished, were originally drawn by this " feli- 

 cissimus fungorum investigator," who continued every year, even 

 after Fries' death, and as long as his health and energy permitted, 

 to collect, describe and illustrate species, varieties, and forms of 

 the fungi growing around the agricultural college of Ultuna. 

 where he was engaged during about 30 years. This accumulated 

 work, of which nothing has been published since long ago, will 

 no doubt be of great interest to those who have to deal with the 

 Swedish fungous flora and will probably be adapted to throw 

 light upon some of the problems which hitherto have remained 

 unsolved. — L. Romell. 



Notes on Some Papers Presented at the Washington Meeting, 

 December 28 and 2(), ipii 



''Preliminary notes on a twig-blight of Quercus Prinus/' by 

 Delia Ingram. This is due to a fungus producing pycnidia on 

 the dead leaves and showing the Macro phoma type of spores. It 

 also attacks white oak and chestnut to some extent. The disease 



