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Notices to Mycologists 
THE LISTER INSTITUTE NATIONAL 
COLLECTION OF TYPE CULTURES 
We were asked last year, but have not hitherto found space, to 
announce that the Medical Research Council has made arrange¬ 
ments to maintain at the Lister Institute, Chelsea Gardens, 
London, S.W. 1, a National Collection of Type Cultures containing 
authentic strains of bacteria and protozoa for use in scientific 
work; and to add to this cultures of fungi of importance in phyto¬ 
pathology, medicine, veterinary science, technology and soil biology, 
types useful for teaching purposes, and any rare or interesting 
species. At present only room can be found for those forms with 
some published distinguishing name or symbol. The British Myco- 
logical Society has appointed a fully representative standing 
committee to consider the ways in which the collection can be 
made most valuable, and to advise and assist in all questions 
pertaining to fungi. 
The co-operation of bacteriologists and mycologists is earnestly 
invited, and in return every effort will be made to supply the 
needs of applicants for cultures. Fully identified species of fungi 
alone will at present be accepted for the collection, and it should 
be stated by whom they were named and whether any special 
medium is required for their growth. 
As far as possible cultures will be supplied on demand to 
workers at home or abroad, a small charge being made to defray 
the cost of media and postage. 
Annual lists of the fungi in the collection will be published in 
the Transactions of the British Mycological Society, and a list of 
type slides will be kept at the British Museum (Natural History). 
All communications are to be addressed to the Curator of the 
Collection at the above address. 
CONTINUATION OF SACCARDO’S 
SYLLOGE FUNGORUM 
We are asked by Dr Montemartini, the Director of the Cryptogamic 
Laboratory at Pavia, Italy, to announce that two new volumes 
of this work, carrying it up to 1917, are ready and will shortly 
be published; and earnestly to request all mycologists to send to 
him at the Laboratory all published memoirs and especially all 
descriptions of new genera of fungi, in order that this well known 
standard work, indispensable to systematic students of the fungi, 
may be satisfactorily continued. 
