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niaceae. Professor Lyman, of Dartmouth College, will have 
charge of Professor Thaxter’s work during his absence. 
Dr. H. W. Anderson has been appointed Rose professor of 
botany at Wabash College, and Professor J. S. Caldwell, of the 
University of Nashville, has accepted the professorship of botany 
in the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Auburn, Alabama. 
Dr. F. J. Seaver accompanied Dr. N. L. Britton on a visit to 
the Bermudas in December and obtained a representative collec- 
tion of the fungi of those islands. Comparatively little had been 
previously known of this group of plants in the Bermudas. 
It is believed by Stockdale, of Barbados, that a number of fungi 
attacking Para rubber trees, such as Thyridaria tarda, Hymeno- 
chaete noxia, Fames semitostus, and Corticiiwi salmonicolor, may 
be introduced through the careless importation of rubber stumps. 
The disease known as “ peach yellows ” is regarded by E. W. 
Morse and L. W. Fetzer (Science 35: 393. 1912) as a consti- 
tutional disease which is inheritable, the well-known symptoms 
being due to a disturbance of equilibrium among the enzymes 
of the plant. 
An excellent descriptive treatment of the species of Plioliota 
occurring in the region of the Great Lakes, by Edward T. Harper, 
has recently appeared in the Transactions of the Wisconsin Acad- 
emy of Sciences. Complete notes and very handsome plates of 
about thirty species are included. 
Professor J. C. Arthur and Dr. Frank D. Kern spent a month 
during the past summer in field work in Colorado in continuation 
of their investigations of the Uredinales. The time was chiefly 
spent in the southern and southwestern portions of the state in 
localities not visited by them on previous trips. 
Mr. Guy West Wilson, formerly of the North Carolina Agri- 
cultural Experiment Station, was awarded a research scholarship 
