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Mycologia 



Porfessor W. G. Stover, of the Oklahoma Agricultural Exper- 

 iment Station, has been appointed assistant professor of botany 

 in Ohio State University for the coming year. Mr. Stover is 

 a graduate of Miami- University and was at one time a student 

 at the Garden. 



Mr. P. J. Anderson, field pathologist of the Pennsylvania 

 Chestnut Tree Blight Commission, and Professor H. W. Ander- 

 son, investigator for this Commission, visited the Garden August 

 14 to examine herbarium specimens and literature of fungi 

 relating to the chestnut blight. 



Bulletin 255 of the Bureau of Plant Industry at Washington, 

 by Dr. E. F. Smith and Assistants, contains numerous illustra- 

 tions showing the effects of crown gall on plant tissues, with a 

 brief discussion of the disease and the results of investigations 

 on the subject. 



The entire herbarium of the late Professor Alfred James Mc- 

 Clatchie, of Throop Polytechnic Institute, Pasadena, California, 

 has recently been purchased by the New York Botanical Garden. 

 It contains 1,835 specimens of fungi, many of which are valuable 

 types. 



Dr. F. D. Heald, formerly professor of botany in the University 

 of Texas, is now an investigator under the Commission for the 

 Investigation and Control of the Chestnut Tree Blight Disease in 

 Pennsylvania, with his headquarters at the Zoology Building, 

 University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. 



Dr. A. F. Blakeslee has a year's leave of absence from the 

 Connecticut Agricultural College. He has a temporary appoint- 

 ment on the staff of the Carnegie Station for Experimental Evo- 

 lution at Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, New York, where 

 he will spend the year in research work on the lower fungi. 



Dr. P. Baccarini has studied the effects of Daedalea unicolor 

 on living trees of Acer rubrum in the botanical garden at Flor- 



