Mycological Society of America

MYCOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA

NEWS - LETTER JUNE 1960

VOL. XI NO. I I\iYCOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA NEWSLETTER - JUNE, 1963 VOL. XI NO. 1 Edited by: R. K. Benjamin CONTENTS Presidential Remarks- The Annual Meet ing-1960, Oklahoma State University. The Annual Foray-1960, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Mycological Society Fellowship. Election of Officers. Brochure-"A Career in Mycology."

VII. VIII. Sustaining Members. Publicat ions. Research Materials Major Research Projects. XII. Mycological Instruct ion, Summer of 1960, and Ne~w Courses. XIII. Vacancies for Mycologically Trained Personnel. XIV. Assistantships, Fello~~~ships,and Scholarships. Mycologists Available.

XVI Recent Appointments and Transfers.

XVII. News of General Interest. XVIII* Other News about Members. XIX Visiting Scientists. Honors, Degrees, Promotions, Invitational Lectures. XXI The F1 - F2 Generations. Mycological Poetry. I. President's greetings to the Mycological Society of America.

I take this opportunity, my first to address members of the Mycol- gical Society officially, to thank you for the honor of my election as -,our president. It is the highest and most coveted honor I can expect to receive, but it is more than a personal honor. I interpret it as a recognition of the importance of an applied branch of mycology, im~ort- ant in medicine and public health. Thirty years of my professional career have been spent in the fas- cinating specialty of medical mycology, but throughout that time one of my primary goals has been that medical mycology shall be a specialty of mycology and not a special branch of either clinical medicine or medical bacteriology, to both of which it is closely allied. During these 30 years, I have seen competent mycologists take increasing responsibilities for medical mycology and now, despite the acknowledged hazards of including medical mycology within the scope of general laboratory mycology, the subject is well taught at an academic level in many mycological centers. I have fostered this ideal personally by maintaining a deep personal interest in morphologic and cytologic mycology and some of my research studies in which I take most satisfaction have had no direct relationship to fungi of medical importance. The Mycological Society should not now expect to recover dominance in the fields of antibiotics, plant pathology, and biochemical studies which utilize fungi merely as tools, but it must broaden the scope of its interest and its journal to encompass these specialities as well as descriptive and taxonomic mycology. Progress has been made in this direction during the past 10 years and it has strengthened and improved the Society. Mycology, in its many ramifications, is a most fa-acinating field of microbiology, with potentialities as the most productive didact- ically, industrially, and even medically (despite the fact that fungi are reported as the cause of death in only 350-450 cases in the United States each gear). Our new Secretary-Treasurer has done a fine job of taking over the responsibilities of this important office. I thank him and those members who ha-ve accepted appointments on committees. Responsible act- ivity in these appointments and in elective offices are essential to a vigorous development of our Society. Growth in membership is important too and, although expansion in size is limited by necessity, growth in responsibility and active participation is a desirable and adequate sub- stitute. We have an interesting program planned for the fall foray and the annual meeting at S$illv~ater,Oklahoma. Further announcements about these will reach you in due course. I hope you can all attend these meetings and I look forward with pleasure to seeing you there.

Chester W. Emmons 11. THE ANNUAL MEETING--~~~o,OKLAHOlqA STATE UNIVERSITY August 28 - September 1, 1960 Information on housing accommodations and food service has been published in the April issue of the AIBS Bulletin, pp. 34-35. In general, the procedure at Stillwater ?firill be similar to that of AIBS meetings held in the past. An application form is included in this issue of the Newsletter (p.23) for the convenience of members needing one. Dr. Chester W. Emmons will deliver the presidential address, and the eleventh annual lecture will be presented by a distinguished mycologist being selected by the eminently well-qualified committee consisting of Drs. John Couch, Chm., Leland Shanor, and John Stevenson. A symposium on "Some Biotic Relationships of Algaell--dedicated to the memory of Prof. Gilbert Ma Smith--?rill be sponsored jointly by the Microbiological and Phycological Sections of the Botanical Society and the Mycological and Phycological Societies. Local arrangements for the Mycological Society are in the hands of Dr. John E. Thomas, Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oklahoma State University.

111- TEE ANNUAL FORAY - BATON ROUGE, LA* August 23-25, 1960 The follooring information will be of interest to those members ~erho are planning to attend the 1960 Foray to be held at Louisiana State University-, Baton Rouge, on August 23-25 preceeding the Stillwater meetings. The Department of Botany, Bacteriology and Plant Pathology ill provide participants with all necessary laboratory equipment and the facili- ties of the library and mycological herbarium will be at their disposal. Two "all dayu collecting trips are planned, one to a hardwood area about 65 miles north of the campus, to include a stop at Audubon Memorial State Park; another will be to the pinewood area about 60 miles east of Baton Rouge. The third day of collecting vill be in localities closer to the campus and >$illend about noon leaving the afternoon of the 25th free. Collecting at this time of year usually is very good and we cordially in- vite your participation. Transportation to the collecting areas ?rill be by car. Louise Garig Hall, a women's dormitory, has been reserved for the housing of members. The cost will be $2.75 per person per night with maid service and linens furnished daily. Meals will be served at a restaurant located at the entrance to the campus about 500 yards from the dormitory area. Rooms will be ready for occupancy on the morning of August 22 a.nd registrants may check in at any time throughout the day. Upon receipt of your advance registration form (see p. 25), a campus map will be mailed to you appropriately marked for your orientation. Upon arrival, please go directly to Louise Garig Hall. If you plan to arrive in Baton Rouge by means of transportation other than by car please write in advance and ar- rangemento will be made to meet you at bus, train or plane terminal. For those members who plan to drive to Stillwater after the Foray (leaving Louisiand State University on the morning of August 26), arrangements will be made to supply them with marked Esso roadmaps for the trip from Baton Rouge. Also, for those members who so desire, advance registration at a motel (Holiday Inn) in Texarkana, Texas (about -2- midwey between Baton Rouge and stillwater) will be made if they indicate the type of accommodation desired (see registration form). Please indicate your wishes on the form and return promptly to : B. Lowy, Botany Depart- ment, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. All inquiries should be addressed to Dr. Lowy. Members of the Foray Committee on local arrangements are: Drs. B. Lowy, Cha-irman, S. J.P. Chilton, B. Exner, and H. Wheeler.

IV. MYCOLOGICAL SOCIETY FELLOWSHIP The Research Grants Committee of the Mycological Society of America takes pleasure in announcing that it has selected Mr. Francis A. Wood, Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota, as the recipient of the Mycological Society Graduate Fellowship for 1960-1961. The committee consists of Drs. Harry E. Wheeler, Chairman, Alma W. Barks- dale, Kenneth B. Raper, and John E. Peterson (EX-~fficio).

V* ELECTION OF OFFICERS I\lominations have been received for the four officers to be elected in 1960, and the ballots trill be mailed as soon as possible after those persons selected by the membership have accepted nomination.

VI. BROCHURE "A CAREER IN MYCOLOGY'' Since announcing the availability of the Society's brochure--"A Car- eer in Mycology1'--in the last issue of the Newsletter, over 1600 copies have been distributed. Many of these have gone to state and local Dep- artments of Education, High Schools, etc., for the use of counselors and students. Your editor still has some 3400 brochures on hand. These re- present a considerable investment of nioney by the Society and they serve no useful purpose in storage. Please send requests to R. K. Benjamin, Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, Claremont, California. VII. 3JEMBERSHIP

As of May 25, 1960, the membership of the Society including applications on hand to be presented for election at the annual business meeting in Aug- ust was constituted as follows: Life Members ...... 7 Regular Members ...... 717 Associate Members ...... 24 Emeritus Members ...... 10 Corresponding Members ...... 3 Sustaining Members ...... 22 Affiliated Societies ...... 5

With 788 members in all categories, the Society shows a gain of 19 members over last year, and, notwithstanding delay in the publication of -Pi>-cologia, only 53 regular members have not yet paid their 1960 dues. This compares ~lrith56 unpaid members this time last year. Happily, none of our members has died since publication of the last issue of the Nevrs- letter; fourteen regular members have resigned. Application Forms

A new supply of application-for-membership forms is on hand. These may be obtained by writing any member of the Membership Committee (see page 6 of previous issue of Newsletter) or the Secretary-Treasurer. -New Sustaining Members Five new Sustaining Members have joined the Society since the last Newsletter was published. These are: Burroughs Wellcome and Co. , Inc. , Tuckahoe, N. Ye; Consolidated Laboratories, Inc., Chicago Heights, Ill.; Hoffmann-La Roche, Inc. , Nutley, N. J. ; Miles Laboratories, Inc. . Elk- hart, Ind.; and Scientific Products Foundation, Evanston, Ill. We welcome these institutions into our Society and thank not only them but also our Sustaining Members of longer standing for their support of our Fellowship and Memoirs programs.

The Sustaining Membership Committee, Dr. John E. Peterson, Chairman, is to be commended for their continuing efforts in behalf of the Society. VIII. SUSTAINING iviEillBERS OF THE MYCOLOGICAL SOCIETY The Society is extremely grateful for the support of its Sustaining Members. These organizations are listed below in alphabetical order. Pa-t- ronize them and let their represents-tives know of our appreciation when- ever possible. ABBOTT LABORATORIES Pharmaceutical products for the medical profession since 1888 North Chicago, Illinois BALTIMORE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY, INC. A division of Becton, Dickinson and Company Products for the microbiological laboratory BUCKMAN LABORATORIES, INC. Industrial microorganism control specialists Memphis 8, Tennessee

BURROUGHS WELLCOME AND CO. (U. S. A. ) INC. Manufacturers of Fine Pharmaceuticals Tuckahoe 7, New York BUTLER COUNTY MUSHROOM FARM West Winfield, Pennsylvania CIBA PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTS, INC. In the service of medical science Summit, Nev Jers eg CONSOLIDATED LABORATORIES, INC. COLAB and OXOID Products for the Laboratory Chicago Heights, Illinois DIFCO LABORATORY PRODUCTS The complete line of microbiological reagents and media HOFFMANN-LA ROCHE, INC . Pharmaceuticals, Vitamins and Aromatic Chemicals Nutley 10, New Jersey THE FLEISCmANN LABORATORIES Standard Brands Incorporated JOHNSON and JOHNSON New Brunswick, New Jersey LEDERLE LABORATORIES DIVISION, AMERICAN CYANAMID COMPANY Antibiotic, biological and pharmaceutical research and manufacture Pearl River, New York ELI LILLY AND COMPANY Pharmaceuticals, biologicals, and agricultural and industrial products 740 South Alabama Street, Indianapolis, Indiana SUSTAINING MEMBERS OF THE MYCOLOGICAL SOCIETY

MILES LABORATORIES, INCORPORATED Pharmaceutical and chemical research and manufacture Elkhart, Indiana

NORWICH PHmiICAL COMPANY, EATON LABORATORIES DIVISION Ethical pharmaceuticals Norwich, New York

ORTHO PHARMACEUTICAL CORPORATION Obstetrical and gynecological products, biologicals Raritan, New Jersey

CHAS* PFIZER AND CO. , INC. 11 Bartlett Street, Brooklyn 6, New York _Fine chemicals and pharmaceuticals by means of microorganisms

SCHERING CORPORATION Pharmaceutical manufacturers Bloomfield, New Jersey

SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTS FOUNDATION, EVANSTON, ILLINOIS Supported by companies dedicated to the biological sciences EV ember company names on request)

THE SQUIBB INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH Ea R- Squibb and Sons, Div. of Olin Mathieson Chemical Corporation New Brunswick, New Jersey

ARTHUR Ha THOMAS COMPANY 22,000 items of chemical and biological apparatus for immediate shipment Vine Street at Third, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

THE UPJOHN COMPANY Fine pharmaceuticals since 1886 Kalamazoo, Michigan IX. PUBLICATIONS

Information wanted: -Dr. Narie Lack, Mycology and Plant Disease Reporting Section, Agr. Res. Service, Beltsville, Md., is compiling for future publication an an- notated list of all fungi described by C. Spegazzini and would appreciate any information (in any group) regarding the present status of his fungi (many of which have become relegated to synonymy); any reference to his more obscure or little-known publications, or dealing with small groups (except Laboulbeniales), would also be ~relcome. Publications offered for sale:

Dr. John A. Stevenson, Plant Industry Station, Beltsville, Md. , of- fersthe following items for sale: Mycologia, Vols. 1-46, bound in 1954; Vols. 47-50, in parts as issued. $350.00 Phytopatholoay, Vols. 37-48, lacks No. 12 of 1948, in parts as issued. (mo.00 Review of Applied Mycology, Vols. 1-39, 14 volumes bound (not lettered), balance in parts as issued. $400.00 Publicat ions vanted:

Costantin, J. 1888. Les Mucedinees Simples. Paris. 210 pp. Wanted by Dr. Roger D. Goos, Central Research Laboratory, United Fruit Co., Norwood, Mass. The Index of Plant Diseases is wanted by Dr. Eugene W. Smith, Aquinas College, ~randxapids6, Mich. Large, E. C. Advance of the Fungi. Wanted by Dr. James H. Grosklags, Northern Illinois Univ., DeKalb, Ill.

Lister, A. 1925. A Monograph of the Mycetozoa, Ed. 3, revised by G. Lister. wanTed by Don B. Creager, State Plant Board Lab. , P. 0. Box 3777, University Station, Gainesville, Fla.

M~cologia. Dr. G. C- Ainsworth, Commonvrealth Mycological Institute, Kew, writes that the British Mycological Society needs the following parts of Mycologia in order to complete its run: Vol. 20, part 5, 1928; Vol. 23, part 3, 1931; Vol- 32, part 6, 1940; Vol. 33, part 1, 194.1. The 1940-1941 parts probably were lost in transit during the War, for they are missing from many sets in England.

Dr. Josiah L. Lo??re, College of Forestry, Syracuse University, New York, would like to obtain a copy of North American Flora, Vol. 9, parts 1 and 8, Polyporaceae, by W. A- Merrill, as well as a copy of Merrills Northern Polgpores, published by the author, 1915. X. RESEARCH ITATERIALS Xotices of the availability of cultures of unusual fungi particularly suitable for teaching purposes or for special types of research will be accepted for the Ne~ssletterfrom those rnrho are willing to distribu.te such cultures. Requests for cultures of fungi which are not available for sale by the A- T. C. C. and of other research materials will also be accepted for this section. Cultures available -for distribution: Several species of Dactylella, Dactylaria, and Arthrobotrgs. -- Dr. Ra Manlrau, Dept. of Plant Nematology, Univ. of Calif., Riverside. 2. Ificrosporium nanus. --Dr. Cesar A. Fuentes, Dept . of Microbiol. , Univ. of Havana, School of Medicine, Havana, Cuba. 3- Polyploid strains of Saccharomyces. --Dr. Alvin Sarachek, Dept. of Biology, Univ. of Wichita, Wichita, Kans. Cultures, Material, Information wanted:

1- Dr. B. Lowy, Dept. of Botany, Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge, would appreciate receiving information regarding the availability of exsiccati or other collections for sale or exchange.

2. Any species of Ascobolus--either cultures or dried material-- desired by Dr. George N. Bistis, Dept. of Botany, Columbia Univ., New Yorlr, N. Y. 3. Cultures and specimens of Curvularia spp. are wanted by Dr. Emory GO Simmons, &M Research and Engineering Center, U. S. Army, Natick, Mass.

4. A culture of Marssonia thomasiana (~acc.) Magn. on bittersweet (Celastrus scandens). See illustration of the spotting on this plant in Plant Disease Reporter 35: 413. 1951.--Anna E. Jenkins, National Fungus Collections ,-Plant industry station, Belt sville, Md. 5. Dr. William W. Scott, Dept. of Biology, Virginia Polytechnic: Institute, Blaksburg, Va. , desires any fungi isolated from fresh arater fish or fish eggs. Dr. Scott and his students are conducting an extensive investigation of the fungi associated with diseased fish and fish eggs. 6. Fixed material of any species of Taphrina is v~antedby Dr. C. Lo Kramer, Dept. of Botany, Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, Kans. 7. Cultures of Gnomonia veneta and Gloeosporium quercinum from as many localities as possible are !ranted by Dan Neely, Illinois State Natural History Survey, 382 Natural Resources Bldg., Urbana, Ill.

8. Dr. Donald P. Limber, 209 River St., Hoboken, N. J., needs viable cultures of Marssoninia spp. from ~alix--partlcularly one or more of the common species.

9. Species of Candida are wanted by Dr. Alvin Sarachek, Dept. of Biology, Univ. of Wichita, Wichita, Kans. 10. Isolates of species of Emericellopsis as well as any species of Cephalcsporium which produce pink or orange pigmented mycelia on commonly employed culture media such as Czapekls and Malt Extract. 11. Nematode-trapping fungi, especially parasitic Phycomycetes, are wanted by Dr. R. Mankau, Dept. of Plant Nematology, Univ. of Calif., Riv- erside. 12. Cultures of fungi isolated from Leptinotarsa decemlineata (Colo- rado potato beetle) found dying in American soils.--Tadeusz Dominik, Ins- titut Badawczy Lesnictwa, Szczecin, ul. Slowackiego 17, Poland. 13. Cultures of Stilbum and related forms, named or unnamed, are desired by Dr. R. Ha Estey, Macdonald College, Quebec, Canada. Dr. Estey will gladly provide the necessary permits for mailing such cultures into Canada. 14. Dr. A. Weintraub, 299 E. 48th St., Brooklyn 3, N. Y., is interested in receiving any cultures of non-pathogenic fungi and yeasts; he also would like to purchase small or large quantities (freeze-dried and powdered) of the following algae: ~hlorellapyrenoidosa and -C. scene- desmus .

XI* MAJOR RESEARCH PROJECTS Colmbia University, New York, N. Y. In addition to projects reported earlier, Dr. L. S- Olive and his colleagues are carrying out a program of isolation and study of cellular slime molds as well as an investigation of natural variation in Acrasis rosea-

Forest Products Laboratory, Vancouver, B. C. Dr. J. W. Roff, Head, Wood Pathology Section, and his group are at present engaged in a study of the occurrence of Fungi ~mperfecticausing black stain in heartwood of yellow cedar (Chamaecyparis nootkatensis). Im-oerial Ethiopian College of and Mech Arts Dire Dawa. &. --9 Dr. Robert B- Stewart ispreparing- a preliminary host index of Ethiopian fungi. Instytut Badawczg Lesnictwa, Szczecin, ul. Slovrackiego 17, Poland. Under subsidy of the USA, Dr. Tadeusz Dominik will conduct research on mycotropisms of the Scotch Pine association in greater Poland. This will be part of a broader study in Poland and America concerning mycotropisms of Pine associations. Institute of Mycolo~~,Univ. of Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil. ~ccords~to Dr. A. Chaves Batista, Director, his group hae initiated a program of research on Aerosporology. Int3titute Miguel Lillo, Tucuman, Argent ina. Dr. Rolf Singer is conducting research on mycorrhizae and forest ecology. --Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa. Dr. E- E. Leppik,- - Plant Introduction Station, is continuing his studies on phylogeny, genealogy and specialization of stem rust, ~uccinia graminis, and would appreciate receiving publications, reprints, or other information on the subject. -Long Beach State College, Long Beach, Calif. Projects under way in the laboratory of Dr. Frank Swatek are: 1. A survey of Cr~ptococcusneoformans in southern California soils. 2- Experimental pathology of fungi in vertebrates other than manim~ls. Macdonald College, Quebec, Canada. Dlr. R. H. Estey is conducting an investigation of the relationship between mycorrhizae and root diseases of certain herbaceous plants. Diain Street, Spring Mount, Pa. Dr. Elmer A. Weaver has developed an economical process for the liaue- faction of fungus cells which it is believed will have vide application in the utilization of waste cells in industrial processes. Dr. Weaver would like very much to hear from anyone interested in the above process. Michigan State University, Eaet Lansing, Mich. --Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. Drs. E. S. Beneke (MSU) and J. A. Schmitt (OSU) are collaborating on a survey of aquatic fungi from the South Bass Is. and neighboring islands in western Lake Erie. Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. Miss Betty Mayoral is conducting a study of the metabolism of Ceplialiophora tropica. --Dr. Leo Kaplan. St. John1s University, Jamaica, N. Y. Qr. Michael A. Pisano and his associates, Dept. of Biology, are initiating a study of the mineral nutrition of various Deuteromycetes. -University of California, Riverside. Dr. R. Knkau is studying utilization of nematode-trapping fungi for biological control of nematodes and interactions and relationships between soil fungi and soil inhabiting nematodes. University of Maine, Orono, Me. A studyof the effects of chitinase on various fungi pathogenic to plats and animals is being carried out by Wanda K. Farr and Merle T. Hilborn rather than by M. A. Rosinski as was implied in the last issue of the Newsletter.--Dr. Me A. Rosinski. Universit)- of Wichita, Wichita, Kans. Two projects are under tray in the laboratories of Dr. Alvin Sarachek, Dept. of Biology: 1. Pyrimidine synthesis in Neurospora. 2. Genetics and radiobiology of partial respiratory deficiency in Saccharomsces. University --of West Virginia, Morgantown. Dr. Me E. Gallegly is studying sexuality in the genus Phstophthora aided by a grant from the National Science Foundation. XII* MYCOLOGICAL INSTRUCTION, SUMMER OF 1960, AND NEW COURSES

Duke University, Durham, N. C. A summer course in Medical Mycology will be tought by Dr. Norman F. Conant, June 27 to July 23. Imperial Ethiopian College of Agr. --and Mech. -Arts, Dire Dawa. For the first time in the history of the College, a course in Plant Pathology will be offered in the summer of 1960 by Dr. Robert B. Stewart. Institute Mi~uelLillo , Tucuman, Argentina. A graduate and post graduate course on "Selected problems on Basidio- myceteslt brill be offered-this summer by Dr. Rolf Singer. Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. A course in aquatic mycology will be offered this summer by Dr. J. A. Schmitt at the Stone Laboratory, OSU Biological Station. University of Wichita, Wichita, Kans. Dr. ~lvESarachek will present a new couree in Microbial Genetics this fall.

XIII. VACANCIES FOR MYCOLOGICALLY TRAINED PERSONNEL Chico State College, Chico, California. Dr. Lo W. Miller, Chairman, Division of Natural Sciences, reports vacancies in Medical Mycology and Bacteri~logy. University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida. Dr. S. Po Meyers, The Marine Laboratory, would like to call attention to the opportunity for summer employment, beginning in 1961, for I1deutero- mycetologists~and zymologists interested in working on the various aspects of biology of marine fungi.

XIV. ASSISTANTSHIPS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND SCHOLARSHIPS IN MYCOLOGY Columbia University, New York, N. Y. A graduate research fellowship is available for study of genetics- of ~ordariaor for research on variation in cellular slime molds in the Dept. of Botany, under the direction of Dr; L. S. Olive. Cuban Expt. Center, Apartado 654, Carnagcey, Cuba. This summer the Agr. Res. Inst. will have available three research fellowships--one each for a pathologiet, a physiologist, and an entomo- logist. The project deals with the "HoJa BlancaIt disease of rice, trans- mitted by Sogata orizicola Muir. Each fellowship will have a year's duration and may be extended up to three years. Write Dr. J. W. Patrick, Chairman, for details. Institute of Mycology, University of Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil. An assistantship in mycogynecopathology is available according to Dr. A. Chaves Batista, Chairman. -Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. Teaching assistantships are available in the Dept. of Botany.-- Dr. J. A. Schitt. --New York Botanical Garden, Bronx Park, Nev York. A half-time fellowship in mycology is available at The Nevr Yorlr, Sot- anical Garden. The fellowship pays $3000 on a twelve month basis with four weeks vacation and is renewable. The fellow is expected to give an average of 20 hours a week of service to the Garden. The remainder of his time is available for graduate studies leading to the Ph.D. degree at Col- umbia University or Fordham University.--C. T. Rogerson. Quartermaster Research and Engineering Center, Natick, Mass- Research assistant: fungus culture collection maintenance and taxonomic studies. Pure culture techniques absolute requirement; Ph.D. not required. Position available at once but temporary; tena.ble to about April 1, 1961. --Dr. E. G. Simmons, Pioneering Research Division. -Tulane University School of Medicine, 1430 Tulane Ave., Nev: Orleans, La. Post-doctoral fellowships for research training in Medical Mycology; $4500 and up depending on number of dependents. General mycology back- ground desired. Write Program Director. University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta. There isan opening for graduate work on taxonomy of Hyphomgcetes or Medical Mycology in the Department of Bacteriology.--Dr. J. hr. Carmichael. University of Missouri, Columbia. ~ccordieto Dr. John E. Peterson, the Department of Botany always can find a teaching assistantship and some research assistantships for qua.1- ified graduate students interested in mycology. University of Wichita, Wichita, Kans. The ~epartmentof Biology has two Research Fellowships ($2250 per an- num) for work on genetics of Neurospora or Saccharomyces.--Dr. Alvin Sarachek.

XV* MYCOLOGISTS AVAILABLE FOR TEACHING 9R RESEARCH POSITIONS IN 1960 Bulmer, Glenn S. (Expects Ph.D. in fall, 1960) Michigan State University, East ans sing. Thesis : flDevelopmental studies of Calvat ia gigant ea from spores. It (E. S. en eke) McDonald, James C. (EXpects Ph.D. in summer of 1960) His research speciality is physiology and culture of the Myxobacteria and he desires a general teaching assignment in biology, botany, and mycology. (J. E. PeCerson) University of Missouri, Columbia.

R. -9 Sava -Carl - (~xpectsPh.D. in dune of 1960) Ohio State University, Columbus. Yeast physiology. (W. D. Gray)

XVI. RECENT APPOINTMENTS AND TRANSFERS

Dr. L. R. Batra has left Svrarthmore College to accept a position with the Directorate of Plant Quarantine, New Delhi, India; his address is 119 Diam Ganj, Amritsar, India. Dr. S. K. Dutta has joined Dr. L. S. Olivels group a.t Columbia Univ. for a period of sis months to assist in studies on the cellular slime molds. Dorthy I Fennell, Quartermaster Research and Engineering Center, Nat- ick, Mass., has been granted a leave of absence and beginning April 1, 1960, will spend a year on the staff of the Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures, Baarn, Netherlands. In July, 1959, Dr. Morris A. Gordon resigned his position as Associate Professor of Microbiology at the Medical College of South Carolina to accept a position as Senior Research Scientist (Mycology) at the Division of Laboratories, New York State Department of Health, Albany, and in January, 1960, Dr. Gordon was appointed Associate in Microbiology at the Albany Med- ical College where he teaches mycology.

Dr. H. Branch Howe, formerly of Wake Forest College, N. C., has joined the staff of the Department of Bacteriology, University of Georgia.--N. M. McClung.

Dr. John Krafchuk, formerly at Tulane University, has joined the staff of the Department of Bacteriology, University of Minnesota, where he and Dr. S. Ga Bradley are initiating collaborative studies on the dermatophytes. Dr. James Maniotis, formerly at the State University of Iowa, Iowa City, joined the staff of the Botany Department, University of Texas, Austin, on February 1, 1960, as Instructor in Botany. The following scientists recently have joined the staff of the Plant Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario: Dr. Go D. Darker, formerly with Ben Venue Laboratories, Bedford, Ohio; Dr. W. Be Kendrick, from the University of Liverpool, England; and Dr. C. Madhosingh, earlier associated with the Forest Products Laboratory, Ottawa.

Dr. Magdalena Sedlmayr, who recently completed her Ph.D. with Dr. E. S. Beneke at Michigan State University, East Lansing, has accepted a scholar- ship at the Max Planck Institute, Rosenhof, near Heidelberg, W. Germany.

XVII. NEWS OF GENERAL INTEREST -Each numbers -and reprints of Mycologia. As of January 1, 1960,Stechert-~afner, 31 East 10th St., New York 3, - ~ N\T. Y. , will act as the-New York Botanical ~ardenlsagent for^ the world- wide sale and distribution of back numbers and reprints of Mycologia and other botanical journals published by the Garden. Out-of-print issues of 14.ycologia ?!ill be reprinted by Stechert-Hafner and ?rill be ava.ilable by the end of 1960. Inquiries should be addressed to that company.--C. T. Rog- erson. First International Congress of Mgcolo~g. In collaboration with UNEEO,The First International Congress of Mycology, will be held October 10-20, 1960, at the Institute of Mycology, University of Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil. --Dr. A. Chaves Batista. International Congress of Marine Microbiology-. Dr. S. P- Meyers, he Marine Laboratory, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Fla., reports that an International Congress of Marine Microbiology will be held in Chicago in April, 1961, in conjunction with the Society of American Bacteriologistslmeeting. One section of the Congress will deal vrith the contribution of fungi to marine biological activities. --AIBS survey. Robert S. Leisner, Director of Educational Activities, AIBS, 2000 P Street, N. W. , Washington 6, D. C. , would appreciate having members of MSA submit to the AIBS Committee on Education nominations of: 1. Dis- tinguished biologists who are currently teaching introductory college biology courses. 2. Out standing young teachers currently teaching introductory college biology courses. AIBS plans to conduct a survey among the individuals suggested to det- ermine ~lrhat can and should be done to improve course content, what should be included in the courses, and how any suggested improvements can be ma.de. Catalogue fungus cultures. The Institute de Micologia, Univ. de Recife, Av. Rosa e Silva, 347, Pernambuco , Brazil, has pubiished a catalogue of fungus cultures available to interested mycologists.--Dr. A. Chaves Eatista. --New MSA Committee members. Dr. Harry E. Wheeler, Louisiana State University, accepted appointment as Chairman, Committee on Research Grants and Publica.tions, for 1960, and Dr. Kenneth B. Raper, University of Wisconsin, has accepted appointment to membership on this committee for the period 1960-1962.

XVIII. OTHER MEWS ABOUT MEMBERS Dr. Tibor Benedek, Editor-in-Chief of Mgcopatholoaia et Mgcologia Ap- plicata, associate clinical professor of dermatology, ~trEchSchool of Loyola University, was an official guest of the Venezuelan Soc- iety of Tuberculosis. The convention took place at Va-lencia, Venezuela, December 8-12, 1959, where Dr. Benedek participated in the deliberations and discussions about the "Systemic Mycoses of the Lungs," which constituted the second half of the convention.

Dr. Harold T. Cook, 6512 40th Ave., University Park, Hyattsville, Md., was a member of the USDk team that visited Poland, Finland, Spain, Israel, Italy, Yugoslavia, France, and England in October, Hovember, and December, 19-59, to negotiate research grants under P.L. 480 and survey research fac- ilities. These grants are financed with money received from the sale of surplus agricultural commodities overseas.

Dr. H- W. Eades has retired as Head of the Wood Pathology Section, Forest Products Laboratory, Dept. of Northern Affairs and Nat. Res., Vancouver, B. C., and has been succeeded by Dr. J. W. Roff. Dr. Cesar A. Fuentes rsports that the Dept. of Experimental Pathology and the Dept* of Bacteriology have been joined to constitute the Dept. of Microbiology at the University of Havana, School of Medicine, Havane, Cuba.

Dr. Jasper Ha B. Garner, Kentucky Contract Team, Univ. of Indonesia, F. 0- Box 54, Bogor, Indonesia, has spent the past three years with the College of Agriculture teaching mycology, general botany, and floristics. Dr. Garner reports that one of his mycology classes contained 197 students! Although his teaching load is heavy, Dr. Garner states that he has been able to carry on a bit of research on soil fungi. Recent visitors to the University included Drs. Theodosius Dobzhansky, Ralph E. Cleland, and E. J. H. Corner. Dr. George Ta Johnson, Prof. of Botany and Bacteriology, Univ. of Ark., served as Visiting ProFessor, Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge, during the spring semester, 1960. Also, this year, he will spend his fifth summer term with the Medical Division, Oak Ridge Inst. of Nuclear Studies, Oak Ridge, Tenn. This summer Dr. Leo Kaplan, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, is serving as Dlrector of a Science Program for high school students of high ability. The program is supported by a grant from the National Sci- ence Foundation. Dr. N. M. McClung, Dept. of Bacteriology, Univ. of Georgia, was awarded a Fellowship in Tropical Medicine and Paraeitology to study in Central America (Panama, Costa Rica, San Salvador, and Guatemala) during April and May, 1960. Dr. John E. Peterson, Dept. of Botany, Univ- of Missouri, will direct a two-week science program for 60 Ithigh-ability, hand-pickedu high school students from various parts of the country this summer. The program cov- ers eight basic areas of science. Dr. Rolf Singer, Inst. Miguel Lillo, Tucuman, Argentina, announces the marriage of his daughter, Heidi, to Lt. Roberto G. Euataquio, Rio Gallegos, Argentina.

Word has been received from Dr. Eugene W. Smith, Aquinas College, Grand Rapids 6, Mich., that his daughter, Jean Camille, passed away Dec. 30, 1959, at the age of seven months. Dr. John A. Stevenson will retire in June from his position as head of the Mycology and Plant Disease Reporting Section of the Crops Research Division, U. S. Department of Agriculture. As previously noted, Dr. C. Re Bendamin became curator of the National Fungus Collections in January as Principal Mycologist in Charge.

XIX VISITING SCIENTISTS Dr. A- Chaves Batista and members of his staff at the Inst. de Micolo- gia, Univ. of Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil, paid a brief visit to the lab- oratoriee of Dr. A- Re Teixeira, Inst. de Botanica, Sao Paulo, in February. In the summer of 1959, Dr. Tibor Benedek, 25 E. Washington St., Chicago 2, Ill=,visited several centers of mycological research in Europe. In Copenhagen, Denmark, he visited the Carlsberg Laboratory as well as the Staaten Serum InstituBe. In Holland, at Baarn, the Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures, and at Delft, the great yeast research center and collection. In Italy, at Pisa, the Institute di Patologla Vegetale e Micro- biologia Agraria e Tecnica, where he was the guest of the Director, Prof. Verona- In France, the Cryptogamic Laboratory of the Museum Nationale des Sciences Naturelles, Paris. -15- Visitors to Dr. Benedekls laboratory last fall included the following: Dr. Kashkin, Director, Antibiotic Research Institute, Leningrad, USSFI; Miss Van Beverwijk, Director, Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures, Baarn; isI J- Ridley, Institute for Medical Research, Brisbane, Australia; Dr. Wm. Bridge Cooke, Robert A- Taft Sanitary Engineering Center, Cincin- nati, Ohio; Prof. P. Negroni, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina; Dr. H. H. Kuehn, Grain Processing Corporation, Muscatine, Iowa. Dr. E. W. Buxton, Rothamstead Research Station, England, is spending a year's leave of absence at the United Fruit Companyls Central Research Laboratory, Norwood, Mass. Also visiting the same laboratory during a three month! s sabbatical is Dr. Howard Klemmer, Pineapple Research Inst- itute, Hawaii. --Dr. Roger D. Goos. Recent visitors to Dr. Norman F. Conantls laboratory at Duke University included: Dr. Harukuni Urabe, Japan; Dr. Herbert Florez, Peru; Dr. Yong- yoot Su j javanich, Thialand; and Dr. Hans Scholer , Switzerland. Dr. Lucille K. Georg reports that the following scientists visited the Communicable Disease Center, Chamblee, Ga., last winter: Dr. Mary J. Ridley, Institute for Medical Research, Brisbane, Australia; Dr. Po K. C* Austwick, Weybridge, England; Dr. S. Desai, Bombay, India; and Dr. J. C. Gentles, Univ. of Glasgow, Scotland. Dr. Michael Dick, formerly at the University of London and now spending a year at the University of Michigan, visited the Dept. of Biological Sciences, Florida State University, Tallahassee, for ten days last winter. Among recent visitors to the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md., were: Prof. Rene Morquer, Toulouse, France; Dr. Mary Ridley, Bris- bane, Australia; Dr. Maria Ebe Reca, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Dr. Ahalya Rao, Calcutta, India; Dr. H. I. Lurie, Johannesburg, S. Afr.; Dr. P. K. C. Austwick, Weybridge, England; Dr. Sharat Desai, Bombay, India; Dr. J. C. Gentles, Glasgow, Scotland; Dr. Kashkin, Leningrad, USSR; Dr. Lie-Kian- Joe, Indonesia; and Dr. N- van Uden, Lisbon, Portugal.

Dr. He Lo Ennis, Dept- of Biology, Brandeis University, visited the Univ. of Minnesota recently where he presented special lectures on morpho- genesis in the cellular slime molds.

Dr. Karl Esser, Dept. of Genetics, Univ. of Cologne, visited Dr. L. S. Olivels laboratory at Columbia Univ. on Feb. 10, 1960, and presented a lecture on "The incompatibility system of Podospora anserina.I1 Dr. Kenneth B. Raper also visited Columbia on April 20 where he presented a talk on ItProgressive differentiation in the cellular slime mold~.~~ Members of the Society may recall that Dr. Raper has had a standing offer of a bottle of finest Scotch to anyone who rediscovered either Acrasis or -Coenonia of the cellular slime molds. Miss Stoianovitch and Dr. Olive received their just reward for finding Acrasis and just as soon as they are better able to focus on their recent collections plan an intensive search for the other of Van Tieghemts elusive genera. Dr. J. Walton Groves reports that scientists from at least 18 countries visited the National Mycological Herbarium, Plant Research Institute, Ot- tawa, immediately before or aZter the IX International Botanical Congress last summer. -16- Dr. Allen Kerr, Waite Research Institute, Adelaide, South Australia, visited Michigan State University in January, 1960, and spoke to a botany seminar on his recent work on rhizosphere floras and interactions between roots and fungi in soil.--Dr. B. T. Lingappa. Dr. E. D. Kitzke, S. C. Johnson and Son, Inc., Racine, Wisc., visited Dr. Paul0 C. Azevedo at his home and laboratory in Belem, Para, Brazil, during a recent field trip to northern Brazil. Mr. Swan Djien KO from Bandung Institute of Technology will be working for about six months at the Northern Utilization Research and Development Division, Peoria, Ill., with Dr. C. W. Hesseltine on the classification and utilization of Mucorales. In part, he.will study the tempeh organism and the production of this Indonesian food. Dr. Josiah L. Lowe, College of Forestry, Syracuse Univ., will be working in the Herbarium at Kew from May 1 to near the end of September, 1960, with the aid of a grant from the National Science Foundation. Dr. F. Blank of McGill Univ., Montreal, and Dr. P. Negroni of Buenos Aires, Argentina, recently visited Dr. Ester Meyer 1 s laboratory at the University of Illinois, College of Medicine, Chicago, Ill. Dr. Royal1 T. Moore, Dept. of Plant Pathology, Cornell Univ., spent the summer of 1959 at the Marine Laboratory, Univ. of Miami, ?-!here he participated in various cooperative marine. mycological studie~.--- Dr. S. P. Meyers. Dr. Paul Neergaard visited the Imperial Ethiopian College of Agr. and Mech. Arts, Dire Dawa, Ethiopia, in Mag, 1960, for a series of lectures on s eed-borne diseases. --Dr. Robert B. Stewart. Dr. A. E- Prince, Wright-Patterson Research and Development Center, visited the Botanical Laboratories, Ohio State Univ., this spring for discussions on bacteria and fungi inhabiting jet-fuel storage tanks. Prof. Raulino Reitz, Director of Barbarosa Rodrigues Herbarium, Sta. Catarina, and Prof. Corrado Capretti, Faculty of Med. Merida, Univ. 10s Andes, Venezuela, were recent visitors to the Inst. of Mycology, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil. Dr. William W. Scott, Virginia Polytechnic Inst. , Blaclrsburg, Va. , is spending the spring semester as Visiting Professor of Botany at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. John A- Stevenson reports a number of visitors to the National Fungus Collections in recent months: Drs. G. W. Martin, E. E. Leppik, Lawrence Ames, and J. G. Leach, the latter bringing a group of graduate students from West Virginia Univ. Dr. Anna E. Jenkins, Collaborator, has contin- ued her studies on the genus Elsin05 at Beltsville during recent months, and Drs. J. L. Lowe and R. L. Gilbertson spent two weeks in January studying Polyporaceae. Dr. Jorge E. Wright of the Dept. of Agr. of Argentina is spending the academic year of 1959-60 at the National Fungus Collections finishing a monograph of the genus Tulostoma and making a uritical study of the Polyporaceae of Argentina. He is working under the auspices of the Visiting Research Scientists Program supported by the International Co- operation Administration and administered by the National Academy of Sciences. 14rs. Irma J. Gamundi de Amos of the Univ. of Buenos Aires is studying the Discomycetes of Argentina at the National Fungus Collections under a grant from the government of Argentina.

Drs. Kenneth Thimann and Adrian Srb visited the Department of Botany, Univ. of Texas, Austin, on Feb. 4-5, 1960. --Dr. H. C. old.

XX* BONORS, DEGREES, PROMOTIONS, INVITATIONAL LECTURES

Dr. C. J. Alexopoulos, State Univ. of Io~n~a,presented a Sigma Xi lecture entitled I1Myxomycetes in Teaching and Researchr1 at the Univ. of Mis- souri, Columbia, on February 18, 1960. The follovring day Dr. Alexopoulos spoke to the graduate seminar in botany on Research on Myxomycetes at the University of Iowa. l1

Dr. Libero AJello, Communicable Disease Center, Chamblee, Ga., presented two major lectures last winter as follows: llEpidemiology of Histo- plasmosis 11--1V Venezuelan Congress on Tuberculosis and Pulmonary Diseases, Valencio, Venezuela, Dec. 10, 1959; I1Geographical distribution and pre- valence of the Dermatophytes1I--Conference on Medical Mycology, New York Academy of Sciences, Jan. 11, 1960. Effective July 1, 1960, Dr. H. L. Barnett will become head of the Department of Plant Pa-th., Bact. and Entomology at West Virginia Univ., Morgantown. Dr. Barnett will succeed Dr. J. G. Leach who, having reached the age of 65, will be relieved of administrative duties but will remain in the department as Professor of Plant Pathology. Dr. A- Chaves Batista, Director, Inst. of Mycology, Univ. of Recife, presented two papers before the XI National Brazilian Congress of the Botanical Society at Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, on new Peltasterales and on two new genera of the family Rhiz0thyriacea.e.

The folloa1ring lectures were given by Dr. Dow V. Baxter, School of Natural Resources, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor: A. Geofungi in forest succession in Alaskan forests. (with Dr. John T. ~idd1eton)Illustratedwith motion pictures. Presented at: 1. IX International Botanical Congress, Montreal. 2. Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies, Univ. of iqich. 3. Univ. of Mich. Alumni, Colorado State Univ. and U. Sa Rocky Mt. Forest and Range Exptl. Sta, Fort Collins. Be Islandic --saga or forest pathology ----and the cold war. Illustrated with motion pictures. Presentee at the Dr. Lake Gill retirement banquet, Fort Collins, Colo.

Dr. So Go Bradley, Dept. of Bacteriology, Univ. of Minnesota, dis- cussed Mechanisms,of action of Antibiotics at the Second Conference on Medical Mycology sponsored by the New York Academy of Sciences in Jan- uary, 1960.

Dr. Harold T. Cook, 6512 40th Ave., Univ. Park, Hyattsville, Md., was elected President of the Botanical Society of Washington for 1960. Dr. Wm. Bridge Cooke, 1135 Wilshire Ct., Cincinnati, Ohio, received a Department Superior Service Award from Public Health Service Surgeon General L. R. Burney and Secretary A. S- Fleming in Washington on April 12, 1960. -18- Dr. Ellis B. Cowling has been alllarded a Public Health Service Post- doctoral Fellowship to conduct research on the enzymology of wood deter- ioration. He is working in cooperation with Dr. Birgitta Norkraus of the Royal Pharrnaceutica.1 Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, and Dr. Jerker Porath of the Biochemical Institute, Univ. of Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden. Dr. Eugene L. Dulaney, Merck and Co., Rah~l~ay,N. J., has been elected a fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences. Dr. Chester W. Emmons was Evening Speaker at the spring meeting of the Society of North Carolina Bacteriologists; Dr. Emmons also served as Conference Chairman, Second Conference on Medical Mycology, New York Academy of Science. He has been appointed Councilor-at-Large, Society of American Baoteriologists, and placed on the WHO Expert Advisory Panel on parasitic diseases. Dr. C- L. Fergus has been promoted from Associate Professor to Prof es- sor of Botany and Plant Pathology in the Dept. of Botany, Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park. Dr. Oswaldo Fidalgo has been appointed Chief of the newly organized Cryptogamic Section of the Instituto de Botanica, Sao P~ulo,Brazil. Dr. Cesar A. Fuentes, Dept. of Microbiology, Univ. of Havana, has been elected to honorary membership in the Sociddad Cubana de Alergia,; he also has been invited to become a member of the New York Academy of Sciences. Dr. ED Dg Kitzke has been promoted to Research Supervisor of the Biol- ogy Section in Basic Research, S. C. Johnson and Son, Inc., Racine, Wisc. Dr. James Lovett, Dept. of Botany and Plant Pazh., Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, presented invitational lectures on Blastocladiella at the Department of Biol. Sci., Purdue Univ., in November, 1959, and at the Department of Botany, Univ. of Chicage, in January, 1960. Drs. Julian H. Miller, J. E. Giddens, and A. A. Foster were selected to receive the $500.00 Cooley Av~ardby the Amer. Soc. of Plant Taxonomists for their paper entitled "A survey of the fungi of forest and cultivated soils of Georgia. It This paper, published in Mycologia 49: 779-808, was Judged the best taxonomic paper concerning southeastern plants published in 1958. Dr. A* We Poitras, Dept. of Biology, Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, has received a two year grant from the National Science Foundation in support of a study of the taxonomy and distribution of lignicolous and caulicolous fresh water aquatic ascomycetes and imperfects. Dr. Ian Ke Ross, Yale Univ., has been promoted from Instructor to Assistant Professor of Botany. Dr. Ruth Garner de Soqsa has been appointed head of the Pure Mycology Division, Inst. of Mycology, Univ. of Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil. Dr. Robert B. Stewart, Imperial Ethiopian College of Agr. and Mech. ,rts, Dire Dawa, presented a paper on seed-borne diseases of rice before he Third International Conference on Seed-borne Diseases, Beirut, Lebanon, February 8-14.

Dr. A. R. Teixeira has been appointed Director General of the Inst- itute of Botany, Sao Paulo, Brazil; Dr. Teixeira also was elected Pres- ident of the Sociedade Botanica do Brazil. Dr. Elmer A. Weaver, Main St. , Spring Mount, Pa., recently received a USDA Certificate of Merit as veil as a USDA Unit Award for Superior Serv- ice; in addition he has been elected a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemists and a professional member of the Institute of Food Technolo- gists.

XXI. THE F1 - F2 GENERATIONS

THE F1 - 3:2 9$?? Dr. and Mrs. George N. Bistis announce the birth of a daughter on Mag 24, 1959; perhaps when the excitement attending the birth of another child--expected momentarily--is passed, Dr. Bistis will give the Editor the name of the first as well as the second child! The Bistis family resides at 8 Rockview Terrace, Plainfield, N.. J. Dr. and Mrs. Richard T. Hanlin, Dept. of Botany, Univ. of Michigan, Ann ~rbor,announce the arrival of their daughter, Janath Ann, on 21 March, 1960, at University Hospital. Dr. and Mrs. Charles L. Kramer are the parents of a netr daughter, Lou Ann, borne August 30, 1959, just 24 hours after her dad arrived home from the meetings at Montreal. Dr. Kramer is with the Botany Dept., Kansas State Univ., Manhattan.

A new son, Rick Douglas, FTaS borne to Mrs. Wendall M. Farrow, on Friday, November 13, 1959. The proud father is vrith Hoffmann La Roche, Inc., Nutley, N. J.

Dr. and Mrs. James He Grosklags, Northern Illinois Univ., DeKalb, announce the arrival of their second child, Paul Alan, on ~anuary8, - 1960- XXII. MYCOLOGICAL POETRY Several items have been contributed by Dr. G. C. Ainsworth of Kew. These were written by the late Prof. A. H. R. Buller who, according to Dr. Ainsworth, was Itan inveterate and life-long rhymer. 11 Two of Buller 1s poems, --Pond ~ifeand The ~porobolom~cetolo~i~weEe published in the introduction to Vol. 7 of his Researches.

OcOnOmOwOc* 0 Oconomowoc, to thee I bow, For five oes in thy rocky name hast thou; A softer six-oed word my mind has kissed. 'Tis Sporobolomycetologist. -Winnipeg, July, 1938 *Town about 30 miles west of Milwaukee, Wisc.

Bullera 0 Bullera, yeast-genus named for me, Thoulrt wan and from all trace of pigment free; Would that Dame Nature, paintress of the dells, Had dyed the plasm in thy little cells. -Birmingham, Sept. 5, 1938 VICISSITUDES OF A MYCOLOGIST On Funaue Foray At the Kew Herbarium - 7-- I thought I saw a tiny bug Vermiculariae I found Upon a straw of wheat; That Cooke stuck down with gum; I looked again and lo) it was I looked again and lol they were A PyrenomyceteJ All Colletotrichuml Coprinus comatus I found a toad-stool snowy-white And laid it in the sink; Next morn I looked and lol it was A filthy mass of inkl ( undated) *:x..----,, .. :: :: **

Dr. No M. WcClung, Univ. of Georgia, t~ritesthat the late Prof A. J. Mix considered himself a "domestic poetu and often composed verse for the amusement of his many friends. Among the items submitted by Dr. McClung-- not neceesarily mycological but botanical--are the following: A VEGETABLE GARDEN OF VERSE -The Cucumber When days are warm, I like to eat Cucumbers, cool and crisp and sweet. And then when I'm composed for slumber I gasp and groan, "Curse that cucwnberl '1 -The Onion The Onion knows a gentle art Of causing even friends to part. A youth once ate six onions small And met his sweetheart in the hall, I1My love, he cried, I1will last till death! I1Forbear,l1 said she. I1You waste your breath. --The Pea On nimble, lively, agile pea, Iiov~ oft have you eluded me And bobbed as though endowed with life, From off the point of lifted knifel I wonder if old Mendel tried To make a pea flat on one side? -The Squash The hungry beetle eyed the squash I1You1re plump, l1 he said, Itand sweet, by gosh1 "Your words,I1 she cried, l1my feelings harrow. They chill me to my vegetable marrowlu -The Potato Oh Solanum tuberosum! oh humble lovrly spud, Oh gift of Walter Raleigh to Tudor's fairest bud, Oh pride of Pocahontas, oh solace of John Smith, You're full of carbohydrates from epiderm to pith4 If I should eat you heartily as I would like to eat, Then would my proud convexity precede me down the streetJ

A GARDEN

A garden in a plaguesome spot, Got wet* Grey mold Black rot, And aphids green and pink, and mildew grey; Red rust has all the roses got. Pale slug, Black spot, While canker brown doth eat their stems away. Come, let us to the garden, To this black spotted, This God wotted Garden. Let us spray.