NOTES AND BRIEF ARTICLES 
Professor Thomas H. Macbride has been elected president 
emeritus of the State University of Iowa upon his retirement 
from the presidency at the age of sixty-eight. 
Professor E. J. Durand, of the University of Missouri, spent 
part of the summer collecting in Wyoming. 
Mr. Paul C. Graff has been appointed instructor in botany at 
the University of Montana, Missoula, Montana. He entered 
upon his new duties September 15. 
Dr. W. A. Murrill has found that Melanoleuca anomala Mur- 
rill, published in Mycologia 5: 214. 1913, has pale-yellowish- 
brown spores instead of hyaline spores, and he therefore trans- 
fers the species to the genus Inocybe, the new combination being 
Inocybe anomala Murrill. 
Dr. Donald Reddick, professor of plant pathology, Cornell 
University, and chairman of the editorial board of Phytopathol- 
ogy, has been granted sabbatic leave and will spend the ensuing 
academic year in special work in the laboratory of plant physiol- 
ogy, Johns Hopkins University. 
Dr. Gertrude S. Burlingham, who contributed the descriptions 
of Russula for volume 9, part 4, of North American Flora, finds 
that Russula subfragilis Burl., on page 233, is preoccupied by R. 
subfragilis P. Henn. (in Warb. Monsunia i : 149. 1899), and she 
suggests Russula fragiliformis Burl, as a new name for this 
species. 
We learn from Science that Professor J. C. Arthur was as- 
sisted during July in the preparation of the remaining parts of 
the Uredinales for North American Flora by F. D. Kern, C. R. 
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