NEWS AND NOTES 
Professor W. C. Coker, of the University of North Carolina, 
spent several days at the Garden early in August consulting the 
mycological herbarium and library in preparation of a work on 
the more conspicuous fungi occurring in the vicinity of Chapel 
Hill, North Carolina. 
Mr. Percy Wilson spent the month of July at Arkville, New 
York, and obtained a number of interesting specimens of fungi. 
Arkville is one of the most northerly stations in the local flora 
range. 
Professor H. S. Jackson, formerly head of the department of 
botany and plant pathology of the Oregon Agricultural College, 
has recently been appointed chief in botany at the Agricultural 
Experiment Station, Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana. 
Professor Jackson entered upon his new duties at Lafayette on 
September i, 1915. 
Dr. Lewis Sherman, president of the Wisconsin Mycological 
Society, died on July 2 from heart disease which developed dur- 
ing the winter. He was not only an enthusiastic and painstaking 
mycologist, but also had a good general knowledge of botany 
and knew intimately most of the plants of his region. Mr. Julius 
Bleyer, assistant editor of “ The Evening Wisconsin,” succeeds 
Dr. Sherman as president of the Wisconsin Mycological Society. 
Rheosporangiuni aphanidermatum, a new species and new 
genus belonging to the Saprolegniaceae, is described by H. A. 
Edson in the Journal of Agricultural Research for July. The 
fungus is a parasite causing damping off of the seedlings of sugar 
beets and black rot of radish. 
The chestnut canker has been discovered on freshly fallen chest- 
nuts by J. Franklin Collins, who gives a brief account of his dis- 
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