NEWS AND NOTES 



Dr. Robert A. Harper, professor of botany in the University 

 of Wisconsin, has accepted the Torrey professorship of botany 

 in Columbia University. 



Professor F. E. Clements, of the University of Minnesota, 

 accompanied by Mrs. Clements, visited the Garden on June 13 on 

 his way to Europe. 



William Russell Dudley, professor emeritus of botany at Stan- 

 ford University, California, died on June 4, aged sixty-two years. 

 Professor Dudley was called to Stanford from Cornell in 1893. 



Dr. C. H. Shattuck, of the department of forestry of the Uni- 

 versity of Idaho, is planning a survey of the Kaniksu National 

 Forest during the present summer. 



In Rhodora 13: 57-66. 191 1, Mr. Simon Davis gives some 

 critical and interesting notes on certain rare and little-known 

 species of fleshy fungi collected by him in 1910 in the vicinity of 

 Stow, Massachusetts. 



Dr. L. H. Pennington, assistant professor of botany in Syracuse 

 University, spent two days at the Garden in June examining the 

 collections of Coprinus. 



Dr. C. H. Kauffmann has been promoted from instructor to 

 assistant professor of botany at the University of Michigan. 



Observations and notes are desired on aborted or sterile forms 

 of the sporophores of the higher fungi. 



The relation of Ozonium to Coprinus is discussed by Lutz in 

 Bull Soc. Myc. France 27: 110-113. 191 1. 



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