NEWS AND NOTES 



Dr. F. H. Blodgett, formerly a student at the Garden, has been 

 recently appointed plant pathologist at the Texas Experiment 

 Station. 



Two additional plant pathologists, F. D. Bailey and H. L. Rees, 

 have been called to the Oregon Experiment Station at Corvallis. 



An important contribution to the subject of forest tree diseases, 

 by G. G. Hedgcock, appeared in Phytopathology for April, 19 12. 



Dr. H. D. House has presented to the Garden a collection of * 

 163 numbers of fleshy and woody fungi secured by him in the 

 forests of Germany during the autumn of 191 1. 



Professor L. H. Pennington, of Syracuse University, spent the 

 Easter holidays at the Garden studying the genus Marasmius, in 

 preparation of a monograph on the subject for North American 

 Flora. 



The large and valuable collection of unpublished drawings and 

 descriptions left by the late Professor H. von Post, of Upsala, 

 Sweden, has been presented to the Riksmuseum in Stockholm. 



The relationship of Diaporthe parasitica to other fungi is dis- 

 cussed by C. L. Shear in the April number of Phytopathology. 

 The author hopes to clear up a number of difficult questions in 

 this connection during the coming summer. 



Miss Adeline Ames, a graduate student at Cornell University, 

 spent the month of February at the Garden studying the col- 

 lection of Polyporaceae with special reference to the species oc- 

 curring in the United States. 



The collection of gill-fungi belonging to the herbarium of 

 Stanford University, California, has been sent to the Garden for 



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