NEWS AND NOTES 
Dr. Mel T. Cook delivered an illustrated lecture at the New 
York Botanical Garden, June 13, on diseases of potatoes. 
Professor H. C. Beardslee, of Asheville, North Carolina, visited 
the Garden July 1 on his way to Lake Placid in the Adirondacks. 
Professor L. H. Pennington spent several days at the Garden 
early in July, continuing his work upon the genus Marasmius for 
North American Flora. 
Professor T. H. Macbride, for many years professor of botany 
in the State University of Iowa and for some time past acting 
president, has recently been appointed president of the university. 
Mr. W. H. Long, forest pathologist for the Lhiited States De- 
partment of Agriculture, recently spent several days at the New 
York Botanical Garden, studying certain fungi of forest trees col- 
lected in Florida and North Carolina. 
Dr. Fred J. Seaver spent the early part of July at Portland, 
Connecticut, where he was engaged in the collection and study of 
local fungi, especially the fleshy Discomycetes. 
Miss Florence McCormick, assistant professor of agricultural 
botany in the Agricultural Experiment Station of Nebraska, is 
spending part of the summer at the New York Botanical Garden, 
engaged in a study of the cytology of the Mucorales. 
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