NOTES AND BRIEF ARTICLES 
Dr. Heinrich Rehm, of Munich, the world’s greatest authority 
on Ascomycetes, died on April i in his eighty-eighth year. 
In the Punjab hills in India, where the practice of lopping is 
prevalent, a serious outbreak of Trametes Pini has occurred 
which is causing severe loss in the case of Finns excelsa in par- 
ticular. More resistant species are recommended, as well as 
mixed plantings. 
In the February number of the Journal of Agricultural Re- 
search, H. S. Jackson reports the presence of an Asiatic species 
of Gymnosporangium, G. koreaense, in Oregon. The telial stage 
occurs on Juniperiis chinensis and the pycnia and aecia on various 
Pomaceae. 
Professor George M. Reed, of the department of botany of 
the University of Missouri, has been appointed research fellow 
at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden for the summers of 1916 and 
1917, in place of Professor W. H. Rankin, of Cornell University, 
who has undertaken an investigation of the white-pine blister rust 
in New York State. The problem to be investigated is the dis- 
eases of trees and shrubs of Prospect Park. 
Forest pathology in forest regulation is discussed by E. P. 
Meinecke in Bulletin 275 of the Bureau of Plant Industry at 
Washington, with the white fir as the chief example. The author 
is now at work upon the pathology of other important western 
timber trees. 
Professor H. H. Whetzel, of Cornell University, spent May 
5-13 at the Garden working over the large and important collec- 
tion of rusts and other parasitic fungi obtained by him and Dr. 
Olive in Porto Rico during the past winter. Professor Arthur 
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