NEWS AND NOTES 
Nearly two hundred colored drawings of local fleshly fungi 
have recently been mounted in the swinging frames of the public 
museum of the New York Botanical Garden. 
Dr. C. E. Lewis has resigned his position as associate in plant 
pathology in the Maine Experiment Station to enter private 
business. 
Professor F. L. Stevens has resigned his position in the Uni- 
versity'- of Porto Rico to become Professor of Plant Pathology in 
the University of Illinois. His address after February i will be 
Urbana, Illinois. 
Dr. C. H. Kauffman, Assistant Professor of Botany in the 
University of Michigan, has been granted a research scholarship 
for February, 1914, to aid him in the preparation of manuscript 
for North American Flora on the genus Cortinarias. 
Leo E. Melchers, recently a graduate student and assistant in 
the Department of Botany at the Ohio State University, Colum- 
bus, Ohio, has been appointed assistant plant pathologist at the 
Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station, Manhattan, Kansas. 
Mr. C. G. Lloyd, of the Lloyd Library and Museum, Cincinnati, 
Ohio, spent part of October and November at the Garden examin- 
ing the collection of polypores. Mr. Lloyd has recently been to 
Cuba and Florida collecting specimens of this group of fungi. 
The Fungi Which Cause Plant Diseases is the title of a book by 
Professor F. L. Stevens which has just been issued by Macmillan. 
The object of the book is to acquaint the student with the more 
important fungi which cause diseases of plants. A review of the 
book, which contains 754 pages and many illustrations, will appear 
in some future number of Mycologia. 
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