MYCOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA NEWS LETTER - MAY 1954

CON TENTS

I The President's Page ------1 I1 The Annual Meeting - 1954, Gainesville. Call for titles ------2 I11 The Annual Foray - '1954, Gainesville. ------2 IV The A.A.A.S. Meetings - 1954, Berkeley. ------3 V wcologia------5 VI The Monograph Series ------6 mI Membership ------6 ------6

~cologicalInstruction in the Summer of 1954. ------. 12

XI11 Major ~cologicalFtesearch Projects ------l4 XIV News Items of,General Interest ------17

XVI Honors, Election to Office, Promotions, Lectures, Degrees. ------20

XVIII 1954. Ph.D1s in Mycology Available for Teaching or Research Positions.- 25 XIX Vacancies f~rNew Wcology Ph.D.'s ------27 XX News of Affiliated Societies ------27 XXI ~cologic~Poetry ------27 XXII mbver------28 I. THE PRESIDENT'S PAGE

To members of tho Society:

The Editor of tho NEWSLETTER has suggested that each issue should include a word from the President of the Society. For me this provides an appropriate opportunity to express to the membership my appreciation for the honor you have accorded me when you elected me your president for 1954. I am deeply grateful and am happy indeed to be of further service to the Society. Ours is not a large organization but it is one that has been growing steadily, and there is a fine spirit among its members. It is this kind of spirit that enables a pro- fessional society like ours to be of increasingly more service to all who belong to it. Tho growth of the Society and its new undertakings over the past few years are clearly a product of this spirit.

The Society was founded in 1931. Within the next year probably, we will begin to make plans for same appropriate recognition of our first quarter cen- tury as an organization. These have been eventful years and years of achieve- ment for the Sooiety and for mycology as an expanding science. Tho possibilities of the years ahead are certainly challenging.

In September we will hold cur annual meeting again on a university campus, this time on the campus of the University of Florida at Gainesville. I'm sure that our local committee, consisting of Mr. Muller, Mr. West, and Dr. Weber, will see that we are provided the hospitality for which thoso who reside in our southern states have long been famous. Since the foray will be held immediately before the annual meeting and in Florida, also, I can imagine that many of you may plan to combine attendance at the foray and the meetings with your vacation. The Morida meetings should be another of those outstanding successful campus meetings long to be remembered, We should have a good representation and I look forward to seeing many of you at that time.

Cordially yours,

Leland Shanor -2- 11. THE ANNUAL MEETING - 1754, GAINESVILLE, FLLlRIDA

General information concerning accommodations at Gainesvillo, has already been mailed out together with the call for papers, and should be in the hands of all members by now. For further information write to: D. W. Vormilye, Director, Division of Housing - Dept. "Aw, University of Florida, Gainesville, Fla.

Please try to meet our deadline of Mrry 20 when you send in the title of your paper to the Secretary. We, in turn, have to meet the A.I.B.S. doadline and it is likely that titles reaching this office after May 20 will not be included in the program.

For a number of reasons, one of which is the fact that many my- cologists will be attending the Paris Cnngroes this summer, no symposia have been scheduled. However, tho Presidential address and the Annual Lecture will be two features of the mycological meetings which all mycolo- gists at Gainesville will certainly want to attend.

Joint sessions will be scheduled with the Microbiological Section of the Botanical Snciety as usual and probably with other societies as well.

111, THE ANNUAL FORAY - 1954, GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA

The following information has been received from Prof. Erdman West, Chair- man of the Committee on Arrangements for the 1954 Foray.

Program

1. September 3, Friday A, M. - Rochelle Hammock - 7 miles East of Gainesville P. M. - Magnesia Springs Hammock - 13 miles East of Gainesville 2. September 4, Saturday All day - Gulf Hammock - 50 miles West of Gainesville 3. September 5, Sunday A. M. - Sugarfoot - 4 miles West of Gainesville P. M. - Buzzard's Roost - 7 miles West of Gainesville Leading the Forays will be Erdman West (will name host plants, as far as possible) George F, Weber, John Owens.

All of these areas except Sugarfoot arefmoist hammocks. (~oistwoods would probably be more understandable to those who have not been in Florida.) Sugarfoot is a mesophytic forest composed almost entirely of hardwoods. All of the areas have much fallen timber either natural or the result of lumbering operations. They should be fine for agarics and myxos but there should be ample opportunity to collect other groups of Mgi as well.

Magnesia Springs listed for Friday afternoon, is adjacent to a very satis- factory swimming pool, spring fed and even temperatured at all seasons at 72O~. Transportation for the Forays will probably bo by privato car (~esure to fill in the "Tentative Fkservationsfl blank).

Eating Arrangements Sept. 3 and 5 - carry boxlunchos obtainable at University Cafeteria, Sopt. 4 - Friod chicken dinner at Hamock Inn - cost about $1.00.

Clothing

At the beginning of September it may well be quite warm with temperatures in the high 80's. Ordinarily this is a fairly dry season of the year but occasionally showers may be expectod. Dress accordingly.

Tentative Reservations

Pleaee fill out the form below, detach, and mail directly to: Prof. manW~st, Department of Botany, University of Florida, Gaineavillo, Fla.

IV. THE A.A.A.S. MEETINGS

NOTICE OF PARTICIPATION IN THE NATIONAL MEETINGS OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCENEl'JT OF SCIENCZ AT BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA, DECEMBER 26-31, 1954. Program Committee Kenneth B. Raper . Robert Me Page Ralph Rnerson, Chairman The rncological Society of America is going to participate in the AAAS meetings this year (as Section ~4),and the organizing committee has drawn up the following fenhtive program: 1) Half-day symposium: "Physico-chemical control of structural differentiation in the fungi". (It is hoped that this symposium will be sponsored jointly with the American Phytopathological Society, Pacific Division; and the general Section on Botanical Sciences. )

2) Half-day sumposium: Subject to be announced. (With the American Phytopathological Association, Pacific Division. ) 3) One or two half-day sessions of contributed papers.

In order that tho codttee may obtain advance information about atten- dance at the meeting and final information about the cmtributod papers, you . are asked to detach and send in tho following two forms. Please note tho dead- line dates in each instance. Form 11: ~cologicalSociety of America, participation in the Meetings of the AAAS at Berkeley, December 26-31, 1954.

I wish to present the following paper:

Title Time Roquseted min . yes Lantern no. If yes, size of slides

Signature

Note: please supply herewith an abstract of not more than 200 words, to

.facilitate grouping of papers by subject ' fields.

Mail to: Ralph Emerson. Department of Batany, University of California, Ekrkeleg 4. California, NOT LATER THAN SEPTEMBER 1. 1954.

V. MYCOLOGIA

As of March 8, the page proof of the March-April issue has been returned to the printer and the number should appear sometime in April. The May-June issue is all in galley proof, and the galleys have nearly all been returned by the authors. Bocausc the number of pages has had to be limited by funds avail- able, a number of papers which had boen scheduled for the May-June issue will have to be hold over until July-August. These, and papers now in tho hands of the printer, will fill that issue. Papers accepted, but not yet sent to tho printer will fill tho Septembar-October issue. Thore are sixteen papers not yet formally accepted and, for the most part, not critically reviewed. All this adds up to the fact that papors recoived this spring cannot be published until next year, except that short articles put in the form used for Notes and Brief Articles may find roQm. It means, further, that a larger number of contributions must be rejected. bcc again, I make a plea for tho greatest possible brevity consonant with presentation md documontation of the matter under consideration.

I expect to be away from Iohre City from early June to late September. Rou- tino matters will bo handled in Iowa City, Mr. Chester R. Benjamin, Department of Botany, State University of Iowa, can receive manuscript and answer questions which may arise, If there are matters requiring my personal attention, I may be addressed at 72, Horton Street, London, W8, Ehgland, until September 3. VI. THE MONOGRAPH SERIES

Members of the Mycological Socioty are reminded of the opportunity now open to them to publish some of their longer papors in the new monograph series jointly sponsored by their Society and tho New York Botanical Garden. Contributions may range in length from about 75 to 200 printed pages and may den1 with any phase of mycology. However, because publications in this series are expocted to be self-liquidating, only papers promising substantial sales can be considered at this timc. The committee listed below invites preliminary communications from any Society members who may have ready or in proparation manuscripts which appear to qualify.

L. S. Wickerham D. P. Rogers G. B. cummills Me P. Backus, Chairman

VII. MEMBERSHIP

The Membership Committee: The name of Chairman Dr. Clark T. Rogcrson was inadvertently omitted from the roster of the membership committee published in the December 1953 issue of the News Letter. Dr. Rogerson may be reached at the Department of Botany, Kansas Statc College, Manhattan, Kansas.

As of April 1, 1954, thc membership of the Socioty was constituted as follows :

Life Members 6 Regular Members 637 Associate Members 10 Emeritus Mombsrs 11 Corresponding Members 2 Sustaining Members 14

Affiliated Societies

Boston Mycolcrgical Society Oregon Y~cologicalSociety

Dues for 1954:

To those who have neglected to pay their 1954 dues a special plea is made to do so at once if they wish to continue receiving MYCOLOGIA, Dues for 1954 are $7.50. New Eaombers - 1s

Hollis, C. George (1953) Tuscdoosa, Alabama Allen, Thomas C., Jr. Davis, California Bigelow, Howard Elson Ann Arbor, Michigan Bissonnette, Howard L. St. Paul, Minnesota Bistis, George Newark, New Jersey EUinc, Dr. Marta Ljubljana, Yugoslnyia Chiao, Dr. Jui-Shen Mus catine , Iowa Chilton, Dr. John Edward Aztec, New Mexico Baser, Dr. Ian McLcnnan Lorna Linda, California Fries, Dr. Nils Uppsala, Sweden Grewal, Jawand Singh Allahabad, India Halde, Carlyn Jean San Francisco, California Harrell, Dr. Everett Richard Ann Arbor, Michigan Herbert, Rov. Arthur East Orange, New Jersey Holliday, Paul Trinidad, British West Indios Leaphart, Charles Donald Missoula, Montana Lingappa, Elanadakoppa Thinmappa Lafayatte, Indiana Lowe, Dr. Edwin Palmer Camp Dotrick, Frederick, Maryland Lucas, Dr. Eugene H. East Lansing, Michigan McMillen, Shirley M. Chicago, Illinois Merry, Dr. James Northf ield, Vermont Milliron, John Robert Fairborn, Ohio Mishra, Dr. Jai Narayan Sabous , India Morris, Evcrc tt Franklin Iowa City, Iova OIHern, Mrs. Elizabeth Seattle, Washington Parmeleo, John A. Ottczwa, Canada Parmeter, John Richard Madiscn, Wisconsin Patrick, Mrs. Mildred Loola Terre Haute, Indiana Raabe, Dr. Robert Donald (Associate) Berkeley, California Roth, Frank J., Jr. Minneapolis, Minnesota. Sanchez, Alborto Valle , Colombia Sef covic, Mcthodius Stephen East Lansing, Michigan Sonno, William K. South San Francisco, California Spiltoir, Charles Francis Bridgeport, Connecticut Thaung, lkung Mya Baton Rouge, Louisiana West, Billy Chamblee, Georgia

Deceased Members

Clarence Mitcholl Tucker: 1897-1954.

With the death of Clerencc Mitchell Tucker on February 3, 1954, the University of Misscuri lost one of its ablest administrators and a leading plant pathologist. Professor Tucker, a native Missourian, received both of his degrees, baccalaureate and doctarate, from the University of Missouri and joined its faculty in 1931. From 1937 until the date of his death hc served as Professor and Chairman of the Department af Botany. In tho academic year 1951-52 he served as Acting Doan of the College of Arts and Science. Early in his carmr Dr. Tucker established an internatianal reputation as an authority on the genus Phfiophthora; in his later yoars, he was widely known for his singular success in developing high yiolding varieties of tomatoes resistant to wilt caused by Fusarium. His active rosearch in these and other phases of mycology and plant pathology was recorded in a continuous series of publications and attracted a number of research grants and a growing group of graduate students who profited much from his warm personal interest and broad technical knowledge,

Through his quiet dignity and modesty, Dr. Tuckerrs high xnotives and in- cisive mind were ever apparent. Elective offices and administrative appoint- ments that required trust andobjective judgment gravitated to him. In addition. to his deanship of the College of Arts and Science and his headship of the De- partment of Botany at the University of Missouri, he held appointments as Chair- man of the Arts and Science Personnel Committee, Chairman of the Wildlife Council, and Chairman of the all important University Policy Committee. His University colleagues elected him President of the University Club, President of their chapter of Sigma E, and Arts and Science Fbpresentative on the University Committee on Tenure. His national scientific colleagues elected him President of the American Phytopatholsgical Society; he also served on the Society's Coun- cil and as Associate Editor of its Journal. The memory of Dr. Tucker's inspiring personal and scientific leadership will remain an enduring influence in myc~logy and plant pathology. (~d.hlmquist)

VIII. CONTRIBUTIONS

The Chas. Pfizer Co., in joining our ranks as a sustaining member, has generously contributed Five Hundred Dollars to the Society. The Treasurer has accepted this contribution on behalf of the Society with grateful thanks and has added this sum to the Publications and Research Grants Fund.

IX. MYCOLOGICAL PUBLICATIONS

A. New Publications: 1. Chupp, Charles. A Monograph of the Genus Cercospor~. 667 pp., 222 illustr. Published March 1954 by the author. Ithaca, N. Y. $10.00.

2. Conant, Norman F. et ale Manual of Clinical ~cology. We B. Saunders Co . Philadelphia. February 1954. $6.50. 3. Reprints of the publication abstracted below are available for distribu- tion. They may be obtained by writing to either author at North Carolina State College, Raleigh, M. C.

ETCHELLS, JOHN L., THOMAS A. BELL (BW. Agr. Ind. Chem., U.S.D.A., Raleigh, N. C.) and IVM? D. JONES (N. C. Agr. Expt. Sta., Raleigh, N. c.) Morphology and pigmentation of certain yeasts from brines and the cucumber plant. Farlowia 4(3) : 265-304. 1953. ---A study of the cellular and colon- ial morphology of some 3- epp. of yeasts in 12 genera is presented in a highly illustrative manner. The cultures depicted represent the principal spp, obtained from previous basic studies on: the yeast fermentation of brined vegetable material; film-forming yeasts from commercial cucumber brines; yeasts fr~mmeat brines; and, yeasts from the growing cucumber plant. Thirty-four pages of the article are devoted to pictures, including 12 pages in natural calor of yeast colonies and related subjects, and 22 pages of black and white photographs consisting mostly of phot.rmicrographs of yeast cells from different cultural media. The striking changes in pig- mentation of certain spp. resulting from the influence of different cultural media, are clearly shown in natural coler. Colonial growth of 17 spp. and strains of yeasts in the genus Rhodotorula are shown in color together with their aLsorption maxima for total carotenoid pigments. Chrgmatographic separations of the pigments from 4 spp. of Rhodotorula_ are reported; B- carotene was identified as the pigment common t~ these spp. This pictorial publication should interest teachers, students, and research workers in the field of microbiology.

4. Dr. Helen M. Gilkeyts manuscript on Tuberales far the North American Flora has been received, (D. P. Rogers)

B. Publications offered f9r sale: -Title Fnr Sale Bly Burt, E. A. Thelephoraceae. R. P. Karf Complete . (In parts ) Plant Pathology, Cornell Univ. Ithaca, New York North American Flora - Agaricales. D. P. Rogers N.A.F. 9, parts 1-7, and 10, parts N. Y. Eat, Garden 1-3, in parts, in good condition, in New York 58, N. Y, one lot, $20.00. This is the pub- lished price (see back cover of &- celogia). Parts 1-3 of vnl. 9 have long been nut of prinx; 10 (4,5), not in this set, still in print. --

North American Flora - Ustila~inales, D. P. Rogers Uredinales. N.A.F. 7, parts 1-3 & 9, M. Y. Bct. Garden as above, $8,00. Parts 1-5 are out of New York 58, N. Y. print, -- Publications Wanted:

Reference Wanted I&:

Botanical Review, Vol. 8 number 6 Fred T. Wolf (out of print) Vanderbilr, University

Bullerls Researches on Fungi, Vols, 5 Fred T. Wolf and 6, Vanderbilt University

Eurtls Thelephoraceae of Nmth America, J. L. Lowe Part 7 (~eptobasidium);8 (Ceniophora); Syracuse University 10 (Hymenochaete) ; 12 (Stereurn),

Clements & Shear - Genera of Fungi Richard A. Converse Oklahoma A & M College Qements & Shear - Genera of Fungi Re He Haskins Prarie Regional Laboratory Saskatoon Sask., Canada

R. L. Kiesling Michigan State College

11 n 2 copies Willis H. Wheeler 3171 N. Quincy St. Arlington 7, Va.

Hohnel, F, van, Fragment'e zur R. P. Korf mkalogie , 1-1225. Cornell University

Hollos, L., Gasteromycetes Ungarns Jarge E, Wright University of Michigan

Lendnerrs Les Mucorinees de la C. W. Hesseltine Suisstk, 1908. Northern Regional Research Lab. . Peoria, Ill.

Les Teignes, Sabouroaud, 1910 Cesar A. Fuentes Nasson e t Cie . Paris University of Havana We C.Moore, Diseases of Bulbs, Bulletin Willis H. Wheeler No. 117, Ministry of Agriculture and 3171 N. Quincy St. Fisheries, Publ. by His Majestyts Sta- Arlington 7, Va. tionery Office, London, England. Phil. Trans. Royal Soc. ondo don) R. H. Haskins Ser B, 229: 1-367. Prarie Regional Laboratory Saskatoon Sask., Canada

Ridgeway, Color Standards and Color Cesar A. Fuentes Charts University of Havana

Sydow, Monographin Uredineanun Jarge E. Wright University of Michigan

Torrey Bot. Club Memoir 9, 1900, con- M. We Gardner taining Salmon's memoir on powdery University of C~lifornia mildews.

Zycka's Mucorineae, in Krytogamenflora W. W. Ray der Mark Brandenburg, vole 6a, 1935. University of Nebraska

D. Publications Received:

The following publications addressed to the Mycological Society have been received in the Secretary 1s office. 1. Ciencia x Tecnologia Vela 111, No. 10, July-Sept. 1953. Union Panarnericana. Washington 6, D. C. 2. Guia & Institutiones .xSociedades Cientificas Latinoamericanas. Sexta Parte. Colombia, Nicaragua ym953). Publicationes de la Section Ciencia y Tecnologia. Union Panamericana : Washington 6, D. C.

3. Scientific Manpower Commission. o older with Sections 03: History, Activities, Members, Program for 1954) 1530 P Street, N.W., Washington 5, D. C.

4. bpt, of the South Pacific Commission far 1952. (1953) South Pacific Corn. Noumea;

5. World Convention Dates. (March 1954). Hendrickson Publishing b., Inc., 26 CRurt St., Erooklyn, N. Y.

X. FUNGOUS CULTURES

Cultures available for distribution.

Ascocgbe grovesii n. gen. n.s.p. Doreen E. Wells Science Service Building Ottawa, Canada

Lambertella hicoriae Wheteel R. P. Korf w is cons in isolate ) Cornell University

Conidiobolus brefeldianus Couch (N. R. P. Karf Car. isolate) Cornell University

Culture collection of the Div. of Jorge E. Wright Plant kthology , Buenos Aires , Argen- University of Michigan tina (Catalog on request)

F'ungi causing leafspots on pecan. Richard A. Converse Oklahoma A. & M. College

Most medically important fhgi, N. F, Conant Duke University

A new dermatophyte. _M. gmseum Cesar A. F'uentes var. nana University of Havana

'Phytophthgra fraaariae, Whim W. F. Jeffers helicandrum, Basidiobolus haptosporus, University of Maryland Delacroixia coronata, Elsinoe corni, Morchella esculenta, Tuber melanosporum. Also about 100 other fungi which we would like to be able to exchange with other members. A number of genera and species of E. S. Beneke the Saprolegniales. Michigan.State College

Schizophyllum cultures: normals J. R. Raper and biochemical rind morphological Harvard University mutants.

Cultures wanted:

Rosebury AN 14 strain of Actinomyces L. S. Suter -bovis Kennedy Hosp. Memphis, Tenn.

Any cultures of Gasteromycetes other Jorge E. Wright than Nidulariales University of Michigan

.. XI. MYCOLOGICAL INSTRUCTION IN THE SUMMER OF 1954

(See December 1953 issue of the Mews Letter for previous announcements) Duke University - Durham Dr, N. F. Conant, Bacteriology Dr. D. T. Smith, Medicine Dr. R, D. Baker, Pathology Dr. J. L. Callaway, Dermatology Gulf Coast Research Laboratory - Ocean Springs, Miss,

Research on the aquatic fungi and fresh-water algae at the Gulf Coast Research Laboratory, Ocean Springs, Mississippi will be conducted this coming summer, by invitation of the station director. University of Havana - Havana, Cuba.

Mycology is being offered this summer. C, A. hentes. University of Illinois - Urbana General Mycology (Bat. 372), Advanced Mycology - Special Groups (~ot.4?1), and Research in IQcology (Bat. 493d) will be offered in the summer session of 1954 at the University of Illinois by Dr. Leland Shanor. Louisiana State University - Baton Rouge Introductory mycology - (~ot,107) Dr. Lowy University of Michigan Biolngical Station - Douglas Lake Cheboygan Co., Mich. "Fungi of soil and watert1; Identification, life cycles, and eaological relationships of the various groups of fungi found in the lakes, bogs and various soil types of the Douglas Lake Region, Northern Michigan. (Alternates with "Higher F'ungitl, Alexander H. Smith) tlFungi of soil and waterH - F. K. Sparrow "Research in Lower Fungiw - F. K. Sparrow "Lichens". Identification, classification, ecology and economic importance of lichens. Margaret H. filford (~qrinformation write A. E. Stockard, Zoology Dept., Univ. of Mich. ) / University of Michigan - Ann Arbor A general field course in Mycology will be offered at the University of Michigan Summer Session in Ann Arbor by L. E. Wehmeyer.

Lake Itasca Forestry and Biological Station (Univ. of Mnnesota) Problems in Mycology. - Research work along such lines as taxonomy of natural groups, fungus flora of particular regions, localities, or habitats; investigation of f'ungi involved in special industrial or natural processes; morphology or physiology of special forms. This course will be given by Dr, C, M, Christensen.

XII. MEDI CAL MYCOLOGY

(See also items included in the December 1953 issue) Centraalbureau voor Schimmelculture~- barn A year aga Dr. Y. A. de Vries was appointed especially for medical mycology work; he is giving courses in the winter and will do research work on Dermatophytes.

University of Havana - Havana Medical l@ctology as a part of the course for advanced Medical students. Microsporium mseum var. nana has been cultured from a ringworm of the scalp for eighteen months without morphological changes. Pathogenicity on lab. animals and on a human volunteer has been studied. Results are being written up now.

University of Michigan Arbor

Dr. E. Richard Harrell, Assistant F'rof. Dermatology and Internal Medicine, trained under Dr. Norman Conant, gives a graduate course in pathogenic f7.mgi open to all qualified students, on types of diseases, recognition and treat- ment, as well as basic mycology necessary. Course also to Junior Medical students. Lecture course as well to Resident Staff, Dermatology and Inter- nal Medicine.

Research on in vitro studies of drugs for possible cure of virulent human pathogens. Research also on pigments of fungi and Alternaria as a sensi- tizing contaminant on skin. XIII. MAJOR MYCOLOGICAL RESEARCH PROJECTS University of Arkansas - Fayetteville Production of Available Nitrogen by fungi. Delbert Swartz Aums tana Callepe - Sioux Falls

E. E. Leppik is finishing his study of hologenesis of Gymnosporangium-. (see wcologia 1953, p. 46-74). Centraalbureau Voor Schimmelcultures - Baarn, Holland. Influence of light on fbgus cultures. Columbia University - New York Projects reported by L. S. Olive: 1. Gene tics, sexuality, and cytology of As cobolus . 2. Genetics of homothallic fungi. Forest Products Laboratories of Canada - Ottawa Decays in poplar pulpwood in storage. Clara W. Fritz Harvard University - Cambridge Various aspects of tetrapolar sexuality in Hymenomycetes, esp. Schizophyllum commune, with particular emphasis on heterokaryosis in common-A matings and on the resulting,mutagenesis. J. R. Raper University of Havana - Havana Isolation of human pathogens from soil. Ceaar A. Fbentes University of Illinois - Urbana The Direct Effect of Some Aromatic Diamidines on the Yeast Phase of Several Pathogenic Fungi. Michigan State College (~ept.of Horticulture), - East Lansing Study of nutritional requirements of certain Basidiomycetes grown in vitro for the purpose of production of ongostatic substances. E. H. Lucas University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

The following-. mycological projects are reported: Department of ~otany - K. L. Jones is continuing work on variation in Streptomyces with current emphasis on a comparison of the populations in sods of two different regions. E. B. Mains is engaged in studies of: 1. Geoglossaceae, with present emphasis on the brown-spored species. 2. Entomogenous fungi.

Alexander H. Smith is working on 1. A revision of the fleshy hynenomycetes of the Western United States. 2. A revision of the Agaricaceae of Michigan. 3. A revision of the Coprinaceae of North America, 4. Biological Problems in Coprophilous agarics, 5. Revision of the North American species of Cortinarius. Alexander E-:, Smith's students are working on: 1. Agaric flora of the Enst Texas Pine belt. 2. Variation in Psilocybe. 3. Michigan species of Clavariaceae. 4. Revision of North American species of Clitocybs.

F. K. Sparrow and students are working on: Microbiological Factors Influencing the Productivity of Aquatic Environments: 1. Influence of fungi on the cycle of planktonic organisms in the Great Lakes and inland lakes. 2. Importance and role of f'ungi in the disintegration of materials in lakes and bogs.

Alfred Sussmnn is working on: 1. Ascospore germination in Meurasporn. 2. Formation of oxidative enzymes in Glonerella.

Department of Bacteriology Harly 0. Halvorson reports work on: Induced enzyme biosynthesis in yeasts.

Department of Bacteriology (School gf Medicine) A group under E. E. Evans is carrying on the following research program supported by a Public Health grant: 1. Immunological properties of fractions of Histmlasma capsulatun, Blastomyces and ~tococcus. Develcping a more specific and potent skin test antigen. 2. Toxins from Histoplasma capsulatun 3. Establishing fhngous infections in laboratory animals for purpoeo of tosting mrioua drugs.

Department of Zoology Clement L. Maraet and Glenn Fisher are working on: Biochemical Genetics of Glomerella.

University Hospital H. J. Blument.hal and S. Roseman are doing reseerch on: Chitin-producing Fungi, and the ~~ntheiisof Glucosamine. University of Missis'sippi - University 1. Continuation of investigations on the influence cf band wave spectra qn the production and morphology of conidia of Fungi hperfecti. 2. Preparation of a check-list of the Saprolegniaceae of Mississippi. 3. Ccntinuation of the preparation of a monograph of the genus Isoachlya. T. W. Johnson, Jr. National Institute of Health - Bethesda The Medical Mycology laboratory of the National Institutes of Health since 1936 has been mainly interested in the systemic mycoses although the superficial dermatophytes heve been used in studies of spontaneous and induced mutation. Current studies are related to the epidemiology (especielly the saprophytic occurrence of pathogenic fungi in nature), the biochemistry, and the pathogenicity of the systemic mycoses. No formal teaching is offered. 2. W. Wens University of Nebraska - Lincoln Life histories of smut fungi. W. W. Ray Nebraska Wesleyan University - Lincoln Projects cf Rolf Singer: 1. The Russulas of North America, South America and Sweden 2,. The Easidiomycete Flora of South America 3. Monograph of gems Galerina (with lifexander H. smith) State University of New York - Cblle~eof Forestry - Syracuse

The nutrition and physiology of the wmd-rotting Basidiomycetes, pri- marily in synthetic media and in submerged culture. Under contract with Office of Naval Research (~6~orobiologgBranch). Prc ject in charge of Dr. M. W. Jennison, Professnr of Bacteriology, Dept. of Plant Sciences, College of Liberal Arts.

The work of John Hunt on the taxonoiny of the genus Ceratocystis (Plectascall is nearing completion. This includes the general (whole Ceratos tomella, Endoconidiophora , Grosmannia, Ophiastomccl. Organisms involved are of importance as blue staining fungi and some plant pathogens.

Lowe a J. L. is concluding 4 year study of -.-pow of North America - te be completed by June.

Purdue Agricultural Experiment Station ~ifa~ette

Taxonomic treatment of the grass rusts of the world. G. B. Cummins Washington kricultural Experiment Station - Tree Fruit Station - Wenatam Study of fungi in relation to revegetation of deglaciated areas in S, E. Alaska. Washington State College - Pullman

C. E. Skinner and co-workers are currently working on: 1. Yeasts on the human body 2. Relationship between anaerobic actinamycetes and anaerobic lactobacilli 3. Fxperimental nocardiosis 4. Experimental sporotrichosis 5. Sylvatic histoplasmosis 6. Sylvatic haplosporangiasis

XIV. NEWS ITEMS OF GENlBAL

As a result of the reorganization in the U. So Department of Agriculture announced last fall, the portion of the former Division of Forest Pathology, Bureau of Plant Industry, Soils, and Agricultural Ehgineering of the Department, dealing with forest tree diseases has been transferred to the U. S. Forest Service as the Division of Forest Disease Research in the Branch of Research. Field stations in the Division have been integrated into the various forest experiment stations serving different forest regions of the United States. In California, the former San Francisco office of the Division has been moved to Berkeley as a part of the California Forest and Renge Ehperiment Station, with headquarters in the Forestry Building of the University of California.

Mr. John A. Stevenson, Principal lQcologist, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture is giving a course at the B~tanyDept., University of Maryland. This course deals primarily with the history of mycology and is intended to give to graduate students the benefits of Mr. Stevenson's many years experience with mycology.

Industrial Wcology offered in the summer session of 1953 at the University of Florida will be offered during the fall semester of the regular session. Mycology is presented in the spring semester of each year.

During the fall semester of 1954-55, L. S. Olive, Columbia University, is offering a new, one-semester lecture-demonstration course in microbiology which will emphasize recent investigations in the fungi.

As a part of the reorganization of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, the former unit mycological collections of the Bureau of Plant Industryf1has become The National hn,qus CollectSons, (~epartmentof Agriculture and the Smithsonian Institution cooperating. )

The Spring meeting of the Chicago Medical Mycological Society was held at the University of Illinois, College of Medicine on April 21, 1954. Discussions and demonstrations were presented covering the newer methods for clinical myco- logical diagnosis. The final meeting of the year will be held during the first week of June; the exact date has not been set as yet. FLlrther information may be obtained by writing the secretary of the society, Mr. Peter Boram, U. of Ill., Dept. Bacteriology, College of Medicine, 808 So Wood St., Chicago. Late in November the Environmental Health Center, U. S. Public Health Service, moved from crowded quarters in three separate locations in downtown Cincinnati, to a new building on a hill overlooking the Little Miami Valley in the suburb called Linwood. C. G. Lloyd obtained many specimene of fungi from the hills in this area. The building is four stories high with two base- ments. Various functions of the Center include the training of public health !officials and sanitarians in various techniques associated with radiological, water, air and food pollution, 31 the Bacteriology Section studies are made of air pollution, bacterial and mycological organisms associated with pollution, and virus diseases possibly carried by water or sewage.

On April 8 and 9, following a change of name effective March 1, the Sanitary Engineering Center was dedicated. The program included an inspection ,of facilities, .and the official dedication by the Secretary of the Cepartment of Health, Education, and Welfare, Ws, Oveta Culp Hobby. A dinner address and a symposium dealing with problems of "The Control of the Environment for the Health of Mant1 were included in the program.

The new address of the Division is: Sanitary Engineering Center, 4676 Columbia Parkway, Cincinnati 26, Ohio,

During summer 1954 ten new rooms will be added to the Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures building, Baarn, Holland, of which four will be used for m- cological work. In 1955 foreign mycologists will find facilities for work.

The course in Marine Batany (Algae) at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Mass,, which runs from June 15 through July 24, will be in charge of Professor Harold C. Bold, Department of Biology, Vanderbilt University. Dr. l?ranz Moewus, Max Planck Institute, Heidelberg and Professor Richard C. Starr, Indiana University and Dr. Ruth Patrick of the Philadelphia Academy of Sciences complete the staff, Dr. Moewus will offer lectures and laboratory work oa the genetics, sexuality and biochemistry of the lower algae.

XV, VISITORS

Dr. William Brown, retired head of the Bpartment of Botany, Imperial College, London, is Visiting Professor in the Department of Plant Pathology at Cornell University during the Spring term.

Dr. Ralph M. Caldwell of Purdue University was a recent visitor to the University of Arkansas. Dr. George B. Cummins has made his annunl two week pilgramage to study Uredinales found in the collections at Beltsville.

Dr. George W. Fischer visited the Agricultural Experiment Station at hfayette. Sir Alexander Fleming was a visitor at the University of Havana.

Dr. Kokichi Fulcushima of Japan, and Dr. Frederico Herrero of Argentina were recent visitors at Dr. Conant's laboratory at Duke University. Dr. Teofilo Herrera visited the Univ. of Mich. Herbarium April 2 and 3 to study collections of Battarrea.

Miss Ruth Horner of the Can~dianDivision of Botany & Plant Pathalogy, spent part of March in the University of Michigan botanical laboratories. She was engaged in the study of numerous collections ~indisolations made in connec- tion with the birch deterioration disease in Ontarig.

Dr. J. G. Horsfall, Director, Conn. Agr. Exp. Sta., New Haven, Conn. is at the University of California, Berkeley, "on leave of absencen.

Dr. John S, Karling, Purdue University, spent two days looking for species of Svnchytrium in the vicinity of College Station, Texas, March 19, 1954.

Dr. K. W. Kreitl~wspent three days observing forage crop diseases at College Station, Texas, February 4-6.

Dr. J. L. Lowe with two graduate students spent a week during Januilry studying Polmoraceae- and Ceratostomella at the National Fungus Collections. Dr. L. M. fissey, Cornell University, is at the University of California, Berkeley, on leave.

Dr. Frank T. McFr.rland (~rvine,Kentucky) has spent the past few months at Smford, Florida collecting lichens. He reports a very fruitful tour be- coming acquainted with the haunts of the late Dr. Rapp, who collected and des- cribed many species from that vicinity.

Dr. F'ranz Moewus, a member of the staff of tho Max Planck Institut, Heidelberg, Germany, spent March 31 and April 1 and 2 in the Department of Biology at Vanderbilt University. He presented an evening lecture on the llHormonal Control of the life cycle of the green alga, Chlqydomonas eugametos" and also conferred with smallor groups of staff and graduate students on phyco- logical problerns of mutual interest. Dr. Moewus is currently Research Associate in the Department of Zoology, Columbia University. He will present several lectures on his work.

Mr. W. C. Moore, Director of the Plant Pathology Laboratory of the British Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, located at Harponden, Herts, Ehgland, is expected to arrive in Washington D. C, on March 24 for a week's stay. While there he will confer with the Plant Quarantine Branch of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, as well as horticulturists, plant pathologists, and mycologists at the Plmt Industry Station et l?eltsville, Maryland. The second.week of his U. S. visit will be spent in the New York area, where he will study more phases of plant quarantine work. One day will also be devoted to a conference with Dr. James G. H~rsfall,Director of The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Sta- tion at New Haven. After departing from the New York arec Mr. Moore will make calls at Cornell University, the University of Wisconsin, and Michigan State College, before proceeding back to Ehgland by way of certain Canadian scientific institutions. Mr. Moore is wee1 known for his text, ItDiseasos of BulbsetI

Dr. Jacques Monad of the Pasteur Institute of Paris, during February pre- sented a series ~f lectures, under the auspices of the Zoology Dept. of Columbia Univ., entitled : "Some aspects of cellular growthtl, These stimulating lectures were exceptionally well attended. Dr. A. Gonzalez Ochoa, chief of the h@cology Laboratory, Instituto of Tropical Health and Diseases, Mexico City, Mexico spent a week in the laboratory of the Communicable Disease Center, Chamblee, Ga. Dr. Ochoa also visited the National Institute of Health in Bathesda. Dr. ,!. G. Plakidas, Univ. of Louisiana, is at the University of California, Berkeley, on a brief leave of absence.

Dr. Rolf Singer of Nebraska Wesleyan Univ. is using facilities of the Department of Botany, University of Nebraska, for his work on the Agaricaceae.

Alcides Rlbeiro Teixeira, Forest Pathologist, Sao Paula, Brazil visited W. B. Cooke during March and April. He discussed concepts of classification of polypores on a morphological bases. Mr. Teixeira has been visiting labora- tories dealing with the study of forest pathology for the last year and a half. He worked with Cunningham in New Zealand, spent some time in Melbourne, visited Pinto-Lopez in Portugal, Corner and Dennis in Ehgland, Dr. Nobles at Ottawa, and has done some interesting work at the Forest Products Laboratory at Madison, Wisconsin. From Cincinnati he will go to Beltsville and New York for additional study of cultural characteristics of polypores and for morphological studies.

XVI. HONORS, ELECTION TO OFFICE, PROMOTIONS, INVITATION LECTURES

Dr. Dow V. Baxter, University of Michigan, has made plans to return to Iceland next summer on his way to the VIII International Congress and will probably stop off in Iceland again on his way back to the States. Here it is planned to continue his studies on theresupinate polypores with special refer- ence to their distribution. He worked in Iceland in 1950, Dr. Baxter will serve as Honorary President of the Forest Botany Section at the VIII Inter- national Congress in Paris.

DFB* E. So Beneke and R. L, Kiesling participated in a Sigma Xi panel dis- cussion ant "Some Implications from Research on Antibiotic Substances, at Michigan State College1', on March 11, 1954.

Dr. J. J. Christensen, Professor of Plant Pathology became Head of the Department of Plant Pathology, University of Mnnesota, Institute of Agriculture, on July, 1953.

Mr. Elroy A. Curl was awarded the Ph.D. degree on February 14, 1954 by the University of Illinois upon completion of a thesis dealing with the fungus which causes the oak wilt disease, As a result of intensive field work, Mr. Curl produced a highly detailed ecological study of the infection potentids of the fungus.

Dr. C. Drake gave a Sigma Xi lecture at Montana State on sylvatic diseases. Junius L. Forsberg of the Section of Applied Botmy and Plant Pathology of the Illinois State Natural History Sur-vey was awarded the Ph.D. degree on Febru- ary 14, 1954 by the University of Illinois, upon completion of a thesis whieh considered the classification of the Fusarium which causes the several rots cf gladiolus corms, Cesar A. F'uentes presented a paper at The Society of Chest Diseases of Matmzas, on IQcosis of the lungs.

Mr. Robert H. Gilpin, University of Illinois, has been awarded, for the year 1954-55, a renewal of his National Science Foundation Predactoral Fellow- ship.

Carlyn Halde received the Ph.D. degree from Duke University in June 1953. She had worked under the direction of Dr. N, F. Conant on a study of the nutri- tional requirements of Trichoph,vton concentricurn. Dr. Halde is now employed as Director of the Wcology Laboratory in the Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine in San Francisco.

C. George Hollis has been awarded a traveling expense grant of $75.00 by the Alabama Academy of Science (US) in his study of the gill fungi of Alabama.

Dr. George R. Johnstone ie now, (1953-54) president of the Association of Southern California Botanists.

Dr. L. R. Kneebone has spoken recently to mushroom growers of the Oxford, Pa. area and again to growers in the Reading, Pa. area on the general subject of "Current Problems and Current Research in the Mushroom Ind~stry~~.

R. P. Korf has received a travel grant of the New York State College of Agriculture to defray costs of attendance at the International Botanical Con- gress in Paris and subsequent collecting in France, Italy, Switzerland, Germany and Holland.

Harold H. Kuehn hes been awarded a University of Illinois Postdoctoral Non-resident Fellowship which he will use for travel and collection of fungi, principally in Uganda, Africa. He is especially interested in the Gymnoascaceae that might be obtained from that area.

Dr. E, E. Leppik, professor of Biology at Augustma College, Sioux F3lls, S. D,, was invited by the Soil Conservation Society of America to preeont an address at their annual meeting in Pierre, S, D. The topic of this address was: "Insects in Relation to Humusn; Dr. Leppik studied this problem in different parts of the world,

Robert W, Lichtwardt, University of Illinois, has been awarded a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship for 1954-55 to travel to Central and South Arnerica to collect fungi and possible arthropod hosts for representatives of the order Ecr4ho3e~,

Dr. Esther Meyer of the University of Illinois, College of Medicine received a promotion from Assistant Professor to Associate Professor.

Dr. L. S. Olive recently delivered the following lectures: At Osborn Bb- tanical Laboratory, Yale Uhi;ersity; January 26, 1954: "Some interesting nuclear associations in the fungin, Torrey Botanical Club, at Columbia University, March 2, 1954: "Genetic studies in homothallic fungiH. - Dr. Olive has accepted &I in- vitation from the Organization Committee of the rncology Section of the Eighth International Botanical Congress to introduce at the Paris meetings the seminar: "Sexuality of the As~omycetes~~,and to conduct a discussion of this subject. Dr. John R. Raper was promoted to Professor of Botany at the University of Chicago, November 1953, He has since accepted a position at Harvard University at the same rank. 3

W. We Ray delivered a lecture to the local chepter of Sigma Xi on !%ria- bility in AmgiU, November 1953.

Dr. W. J. Robbins of the N. P. Botanical Gardens delivered a lecture on October 23, 1953, before the I-$~ology Division of the N. Y. Academy of Sciences, entitled: "Froduction of antibiotic substances by the Basidiomycetesu.

Dr. Ralph G. H. Sin, who has recently become Technical Director of all Quartermaster Research and Development, will be Chairman of the section on Pro- tection of Mate~5alsat the Internotional Botanic Congress next July.

Dr. H. R. Rosen has been cited by "The Progressive Farmertt as 1953 Man-of- the-Year for Arkansas.

Dr. Leland Shanor, University of Illinois, has been appointed by the Smith- sonian Institution to the Advisory Committee for the C~.nalZone Biological Area (Barro Colorado Island ~aboratory). On the evening of August 19, he will pre- sent a public lecture at the Highlands Biological Laboratory, Highlands, N. C. as one of the guest speakers on the 1954. summer program.

Dr. Rolf Singer presented a paper, "New data on affinity between certain Agaricales and Gastromycetesfl to the respective Committee to be read at the VIII International Botanical Congress in Faris. Dr. Singer has been appointed Pro- fessor and Head, Cepartment of Chemistry, Nebraska Wesleyan University. He has received a grant for study of South American BElsidiomycete types in European Herbaria, from the American Philosophical Society.

Dr. 1.J. Slooff obtained the ItDr. Christine Buisman award" in order to spend 3 months in Kopenhagen, for work at,the hrlsberg laboretory, with Prof. Winge.

Dr. Johanna Westerdijk received the nOtto Appel medal" at the Verein fUr Angewandte Botanik, on October 5, in Heidelberg. She also spoke recently at the pharmacy club,

Mrs. John D. White was granted a Ph.D. degree from the Biology Department of Vanderbilt University in December 1953. The title of her dissertation is "Physiology of Ehdoc~nidiophorgfagacearum, the fungus causing oak wilt, with special reference to growth and toxin production in synthetic mediaw.

Dr. Lynford Wickerham addressed the bxteriological Seminar at the Univer- sity of Illinois, March 25, 1954.

Dr. Frederick T. Wolf was elected Vice President, Tennessee Academy of Science, for 1954, XVII. OTHER NEWS

Dr. Raguel Aboulafia Levy has moved from Chamblee, Georgia to Howton, Texas . Dr. J. R. Eloon (ph.D. Wisconsin August 1953) was added to the staff of Penn. State University as Instructor in Plant Pathology.

Mr, Everett C, Bracken, an instructor in the Department of Biology at Van- derbilt University, has accepted a position in the bpartment of Preventive Medicine and Public Health of the School of Medicine, Vanderbilt University.

Thomas J. Bulat (P~.D., Iowa, June, 1953) is now with the Bendix Aviation Corp., Pioneer Central Division, Davenport, Iowa.

To Mr. and Mrs. Richard 11. Converse, born, on November 11, 1953, a son, Franklin Lloyd Converse.

Dr. B, 0. Dodge, after an illness of some weeks, is back in his laboratory and at his Neurospora work,

Dr. Louise T. Dosdall, l@cologist, Department of Plmt Pathology, University of Minnesota, Institute of Agriculture, has been on leave from January through March, 1954, because of illness.

Wendall Me Farrow (Ph,D., Iowa, June, 1953) is now with the Commercial Sol- vents Co., Research Division, Terre Hnute, Indiana.

Glenn Fisher, formerly of California Institute of Technology, joined the Ikpt. of Zoology of the University of Michigan.

Dr. Edward Monroe fieeman, dean emeritus of the College of Agriculture, Forestry, and Home Economics, at tho University of Minnesota, died Friday, Fsbruary 5, in his home at 2196 Carter. He has been in ill health since his retirement-in 1943, In 1907 he founded the Department of Plant Pathology and Botany in Minnesota, and served as its Head until 1940.

Dr. Clara W. Fritz, Timber Pathologist, Forest Products Labs of Chnada, Ottawa, since 1925, retired in V?rch 1954.

Mrs. ~o.wiR. Ghosh and Mr. Ghosh, at present in the United States for advanced study at the University of Illinois, are parents of a new daughter, Illa, born March 5, 1954, They expect to finish their work this summer and return to India in September,

Dr. Paul Hoffman, after about two years of service with the Section of Applied Botany and Plant Pathology of the Illinois State Natural History Survey, resigned to accept employment with Monaanto Chemical Company of St. Louis, Mo.

k,George R. Johnstone retired at the end of June 1953 as Eheritus Pro- fessor of Botany at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, Cali- f ornia. Eugene D. Kitzkels projected field trip to Cuba 2nd Brazil for March and May will permit further studies on the ecology of certain species of the paln genus Copernicia.

Dr. Calvin Kuehner has accepted a teaching position at the University of Detroit.

J. L. Lowe, wife and daughter will be sailing for Stockholm in mid-June to study polypores at the Riksmuseet through December. Sabbatical leave.

Charles R. Manclark and Miss Dolores S. Jolly were married in Pasadena on Deaember 19, 19530 The forner Miss Jolly is a graduate of Santa Barbara, is affiliated with Chi Alpha Delta, and is a member of Kappa Alpha Theta. Mr. Manclark is now serving in the U. S. hyHospital in Korea, on Preventive medicine.

Dr. Philip G, Miles, (ph.D. August 1953, Indiana University, with Dr. Brodie) has joined Dr. John R, Raper's staff at Harvard University.

&of. and Mrs. A. J. Mix were scheduled to sail from Genoa, Italy for Columbo, Ceylon April 2. They will spend about 6 weeks in Ceylon and India collecting Taphrina sps. After thct they will sail for Japan. Prof. fix re- ports that collecting in E~opowas excellent,

Dr. W. A. Murill, (Address, 130 M. W, 9th St., Gainesville, Florida) for almost two decades a resident, in good health nnd with an alert mind in addition to his 84 years, is looking forward to the Foray and meetings of the ~cological Society of America sckieculed for September in Gainesville, Florida. He is out checking on the appearanze and growth of fungi early every day and has expressed a desire to meet any of his former acquaintances, fellow mycologists in particu- lar, and my others who may wish to visit with him.

Dr. P. L, Itusden left the Waltham Shade Tree Lab, of the U. of Mass., April lst, to take the position of Pethologist with the Bartlett Tree Research Labor- atories, Stanford, Conn,

Dr. Irving Re Schneider, who received his Ph.D. from the Univ. of Califor- nia at Berkeley in June, 1953, has joined the staff of the Section of Applied Eotany and Plant Pathology of the Ill. State Natural History Survey as of March 1, 1954. Dr. Schneider will give his attention particularly to fungus toxins and chemotherapy,

C. E, Skinner is preparing a continuation review of Bact, Rev. 11:227-274. 194.7. "The ycnst like fungi: hndida and Brettan~myceg.~~Any reprints of pa- pers on the above gezera will be welcome, The continuat,ion review will be pub- lished a few years hence.

Robert F. Smzrt is on sabbatical leave from University of Richmond during the current semester working on papers dealing with the IQxomycetes.

A. H. Smith and his assistant Howard Bigelow expect to spend the summer collecting in the Salmon River District of Idaho, and late summer and fall at Mt. Rainier National Park, Dr. W. C. Snyder has left on sabbatic leave and a Rockefeller Foundation grant, to spend some tine at the Comonwocilth b&cological Institute, Kow, London. He will present a paper at the 8th International Botanical Congress in Paris in July on fungus nomenclature.

Dr. E. C. Stakman, Frofessor and Head of the Department of Plant Patholagy, University of Minnesota, Institute of Agriculture, became Professor Eheritus on July 1, 1953.

Bora on December 10, 1953, Mr. J. A. Stevenson Is seventh grandchild -- a girl.

Ralph Vogel, Ph,D. Duke University, formerly Research Assistant, Dept. Microbiology of Ycle University, has been appointed (chief) bacteriologist of the clinical laboratories of Vet. Adn, Hospital, Atlanta, Ga.

Lt. Billy West, U. S. Air Force, has been assigned to the laboratory of the . , Communicable Diseese Center, Atlanta, for 6 months to work in Medical l(yc01ogy.

Dr. John D. White, who received his degree from the Biology Dept. of Vm- derbilt University in December 1953, is now serving as a Second Lieutenant in the Amy Medical Corps, He has been assigned to the station hospital at Camp Kilmer, No J.

Gustcva Alberto Wright was born to Mr. & Mrs. Jorge E. Wright, February 25, 1954, at University Hospital, Ann Arbor.

At the present time the laboxtory staff of the Difco Laboratories consists of the following: Dr, C, hr. Christensen, Mr. A. L. Lane, Miss K. E. Collins, Mr, A. E. Bunner, Mr. Snnderson Smith and Mr. H, W. Schoenlein who is Director.

A note from Dr. Westerdijk announces that the following persons are now connected with the Centraalbureau: Dr. M. B. Schol-Schwarz, Dr. G. Eunschoten, Miss A. BevenviSk M.D,, Dr. A. Schol, Er, G. de Vries, Medical Mycologist, Dr. W. Sloof, yeast division at Delft.

XVIII. 1954 PH.D.la IN MYCOLOGY AVAILABLE FOR TEACHING OR RESEARCH POSITIONS

This new Section of the News Letter is initiated as a service to our younger members who are available for positions. Recipients of this News Letter are urged to bring this Section to the attention of the aduinistrative officers of their departments, Candidate Specialty -Major Professor Present Location Allman, h. T. Myxomycetes F. T. Wolf Botany Physiology Vanderbilt Univ. Nashville, Tenn,

Driver, C. H. Genetics and physiology H. E. Wheeler Botmy Louisiana State &ton Rouge Candidate Spe cialty Major Professor Present Location

Ervin, Marion D, Tremollaceous fungi G. W. Martin Botany Univ. of Iowa Iowa City

Gilbertson, R, L. Polyporaceae J. L. Lowe College of Foros try State U. of N. Y. Syracuse

Hennen, J. F. ~cology-Pathology G. B. Cummins Batmy Univ. of Indiana Bloomington

Hollis, C. G, Taxonomy of Gill fungi Botany Univ. of Alabama Tuskaloosa

Hunt, John Taxonomy of Ceratocystis J. L. Lawe Coll. of Forestry State U. of N. Y. Syracuse

Leathers, C. Clavriroid Mgi Alex. H. Smith Batmy Univ. of Michigan Ann Arbor

Lubarsky, Robert Medical Mycology A. 0. Plunkett Botany U.C.L.A. Los Angeles

Luke, He He Antibiotics He E. Wheeler Botany Louisiana State Baton Rouge

Orpurt, Ph. A. Ecology of Soil Micro- M, T. Backus Batany mgi Univ. of Wisc. kdison

Schrnitt, Jr., J.A. Powdery Mildews L. E, Wehmeyer Dept. of Biol. (biv. of Mich) findlay College Mndlay, Ohio

Welden, A. L. Myxomyco tes G. W. Martin Botany Thelephoraceac Univ. of Iowa Iowa City

Wilson K. S. Taxonomy, Industrial F.P.H.A. 206-4 W. (Purdue ) Mycology, Plant Pathol- Stote Street W. Lafayette, Ind, ogy I XIX. VACANCIES FOR MYCOLOGY PH,D.'s

Recipients of this News Letter are asked to bring this Section to the atten- tion of the administrative officers of their departments and urge them to pub- licize any vacencies existing in their departments in future issues of the News Letter. Post Doctorate Fellowships - National Research Council of Canada. Dr. R, H. Haskins. Prairie Regional Labor~tory, Saskatoon, Saska%tihewm.

XX. NEWS OF AFFILIATED SOCIETIES

From the Boston ~cologicalClub comes the following news:

Medical men, members of the Club are senrching.for a drug for the treatment of various eye diseases. At the moment they are interested in Amanita muscarin as a pcssible source of such a drug.

A chemist member of the Club has successfully embedded fungi in plastic blocks. He is continuing the project this year.

. Mr. R. Gordon Masson of N. Y. delivered a paper on IV4ushrooms in Slavic Language and Folkloreu nt the Phillip Brooks House. The lecture was sponsored by the Department of Slavic Languages, Harvard University.

XXI. MYCOLOGIW POETRY

Tho following tldittiesllwere sent in by Dr. Don P. Rogers:

From the "Report of the Army Air Forces Tropical Science Missions11

Little drops of water Little fungus spores Cause a lot of havoc When they get in stores.

From the Schw. Zeits. fa Pilzk. 32:lO.

Merkspruch fur der April

Morcheln suchen ist nicht schwer, gehst du immer dreuz und quer, gohst du aber gradeaus kehrst mit leerem Korb zu Haus!

Other contributions, either original or borrowed, will be considered for future issues of the News Letter if they come up to the standards sot by this ' Page XX. OUR COVER

With last fall's difficulties, which resulted in the mailing out of a Santa Claus issue in mid-January, fresh in his tormented mind, your editor is tempted to end this issue of the News Letter by wishing you a brry Christmas! In his undying optimism, however, he offers you a May Pole Cover ably executed r by Mr. Townshend of St, Catharine Is, Ontario, and aims to have this issue in your hands by May 1.