NEWS, NOTES, AND REVIEWS 
Dr. B. T. Galloway, chief of the Bureau of Plant Industry 
since 1900, has been appointed Assistant Secretary of Agricul- 
ture by President Wilson, and Dr. W. A. Taylor succeeds him 
as chief of the Bureau. 
Mr. Stewart H. Burnham, for some years assistant to the state 
botanist at Albany, resigned on April i on account of ill health. 
His address is now Hudson Falls, New York. 
Dr. E. A. Burt, professor of natural history in iMiddlebury 
College, Middlebury, Vt., has been appointed librarian and mycol- 
ogist of the Missouri Botanical Garden. The appointment will 
date from next September. 
Professor L. H. Pennington, of Syracuse University, and Dr. 
Gertrude S. Burlingham spent the Easter holidays at the Garden 
consulting the mycological herbarium and library in preparation of 
manuscript for a forthcoming part of North American Flora. 
The first number of Phytopathology for the current year con- 
tains, in addition to several important contributions, a full account 
of the Cleveland meeting of the American Phytopathological So- 
ciety with abstracts of the papers presented. The editors are to 
be congratulated upon the decided improvement in the general 
appearance of this periodical. 
A valuable collection, containing several hundred specimens of 
fleshy and woody fungi, has been recently obtained for the Garden 
herbarium from Femsjo, South Sweden, by Mr. Lars Romell, 
probably the best Swedish authority on these groups of plants. 
Specimens from this locality are especially interesting on account 
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