NEWS AND NOTES 
Professor George Massee, one of the associate editors of Myco- 
logia, is reported to have retired from his position as head of 
the cryptogamic department in the herbarium of the Royal Gar 
dens, Kew, England. 
Dr. H. M. Fitzpatrick, assistant professor of plant pathology at 
Cornell University, visited the Garden several times recently to 
examine the collections. Dr. Fitzpatrick is spending three months 
at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. 
A large number of specimens of Agaricus Rodmani were found 
on May 19, 1915, by Mr. F. J. McCarthy in a partially shaded 
street border in Bedford Park, New York City, where this inter- 
esting double-ringed species was observed over ten years ago. 
Mr. L. O. Overholts, who recently held a fellowship at the 
Missouri Botanical Garden, has been appointed instructor in 
botany at Pennsylvania State College. He enters upon his new 
duties on August i. 
Dr. F. D. Fromme, of Purdue University, formerly a student at 
the Garden, has accepted the position of plant pathologist and bac- 
teriologist at the Agricultural Experiment Station, Blacksburg, 
Virginia. 
Dr. H. S. Reed, until recently professor of plant pathology and 
bacteriology in the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, has been ap- 
pointed professor of plant physiology in the Citrus Experiment 
Station and Graduate School of Tropical Agriculture, recently 
established by the University of California at Riverside. 
Professor Edward M. Gilbert, of the University of Wisconsin, 
spent about a week at the Garden early in June studying the 
herbarium collection of tremellaceous fungi. He is planning to 
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