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The Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, 
and Letters, Volume 17, Part 2, issued in October, 1914, contains 
several verj' important mycological contributions. Bernard O. 
Dodge contributes a list of fungi, chiefly saprophytes, from the 
region of Kewaunee County, Wisconsin, including 400 species from 
Kewaunee County and 40 additional species from Juneau and 
Dane Counties listed because of their special interest. About 90 
species of discomycetes found in this same region were also listed 
by Dr. Dodge in another paper in the same publication. Both 
of Dr. Dodge’s papers contain locality and descriptive notes of 
much interest and value. No new species are included. A pro- 
visional list of parasitic fungi found in Wisconsin, with a host 
index, is contributed by J. J. Davis. The list is a long one and 
does not admit of notes. Edward T. Harper makes another very 
important contribution to his studies of the larger gill-fungi 
occurring in the region of the Great Lakes by describing and 
illustrating very fully and accurately 13 species of Hypholoma, 
including some of the most difficult forms in the family. 
Another important contribution to the literature of the chestnut 
canker recently appeared as Bulletin 347 of the Cornell University 
Agricultural Experiment Station by P. J. Anderson and W. H. 
Rankin. This is a very complete treatment of the subject and 
contains an account of many original investigations and experi- 
ments extending over a period of years. Regarding the out- 
look for the chestnut tree in America the authors make the follow- 
ing statement : “ At present we know of nothing that will prevent 
the extermination of the American chestnut tree. Every measure 
of control that has been tried has been abandoned north of West 
Virginia and the Potomac River. Some persons have expressed 
the belief that nature herself will intervene to prevent destruction 
of the species ; the virulence of the pathogen will abate, the resist- 
ance of the host will be increased, or natural enemies — insects or 
fungous parasites — will destroy, or at least check, the pathogen. 
Up to the present, however, there has been no indication of relief 
along any of these lines. But we do not believe that the inge- 
nuity of our scientists has been exhausted ; that further research 
will bring to light some methods of combating the disease is 
not beyond the limit of probability.” 
