NOTES, NEWS AND REVIEWS 
Professor Bruce Fink held a research scholarship at the Garden 
in December, 1914, and delivered a special address on lichen 
taxonomy before the Torrey Botanical Club. 
Professor L. H. Pennington completed' his studies of the 
temperate species o^ Marasmius at the Garden during the latter 
part of December. 
Professor W. C. Coker has sent in a valuable collection of gill- 
fungi from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, containing a splendid 
representation of several difficult species. 
Dr. Frederick D. Heald has been appointed professor of plant 
pathology and pathologist at the State College and Experiment 
Station, Pullman, Washington. 
The American Journal of Botany for July, 1914, contains an 
article on the origin and development of the lamellae in Coprinus 
micaceiis, by Dr. Michael Levine, which forms a valuable addition 
to the scanty literature of the morphology of the higher fungi. 
In the Report of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Sta- 
tion for 1913, Dr. G. P. Clinton discusses rather fully the so-called 
chestnut blight poisoning and decides that the chestnuts eaten by 
the persons affected could have had no distinctive poisonous 
properties, but may have been imperfectly matured owing to the 
trees being attacked by the blight. 
The life history and physiology of Cylindrosporium on stone 
fruits is ably treated in an article by B. B. Higgins in the Ameri- 
can Journal of Botany for April, 1914. Dr. Higgins describes 
two species as new, Coccomyces prunophorae and C. lutescens, 
in addition to C. hiemalis previously described by him in Science 
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