NEWS AND NOTES 
Professor J. C. Arthur and Dr. F. D. Fromme, of Purdue Uni- 
versity, Lafayette, Indiana, spent the month of January at the 
Garden in continuation of their studies of the Uredineae for 
North American Flora. 
Mr. C. A. Schwarze spent most of January and February at the 
Garden examining and making illustrations from herbarium mate- 
rial relating to the parasitic fungi of New Jersey. 
According to J. H. Faull and G. H. Graham, the chestnut 
canker has been found at Agassiz, British Columbia, on trees of 
Oriental, European, and American origin. 
Dr. Charles E. Bessey, Professor of Botany at the University 
of Nebraska for over thirty years, died at Lincoln on February 25. 
He was born at Milton, Ohio, May 21, 1845. 
Dr. A. G. Johnson, of the University of Wisconsin, recently 
visited the Garden to examine the collections of Helminthospor- 
ium in the mycological herbarium. 
The chestnut canker was collected twice in Nebraska during last 
September and October by R. G. Pierce. The chestnut is not 
native in Nebraska, but it is beginning to be planted in some parts 
of the state and the disease was introduced with Paragon nursery 
stock from Pennsylvania. 
Miss Caroline Rumbold, in Phytopathology for February, gives 
a brief account of successful experiments in infecting chestnut 
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