Vo1. XIX, No. 2 MYCOLOGICAL SOCIETY of AMERICA NEWSLETTER Vol

Mycological Society of America

1 OW b& (1890-1946)

Seventh President of the Society, 1938

December, 1968 Vo1. XIX, No. 2 MYCOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA NEWSLETTER Vol . XIX. No . 2 December. 1968

Edited by John G . Palmer Forest Disease Laboratory. Forest Service . U.S. Department of Agriculture. RFD 2. Box 263. Laurel. Maryland 20810

CONTENTS

A . PRESIDENT'SLETTER ...... 3 B . SOCIETY BUSINESS: 2968 I . REPORT: Board of Councilors ...... 4 I1 . MINUTES: Annual Business Meeting ...... 4 111 . ANNUAL REPORT: Secretary-Treasurer ...... 5 IV. ANNUAL REPORT: Auditing Committee ...... 6 V . AWARD: Annual Graduate Prize ...... 6 C . ORGANIZATION: 2968-2969 I . OFFICERS AND COUNCILORS...... 7 I1 . REPRESENTATIVES TO SCIENTIFIC ORGANIZATIONS...... 7 I11 . EDITORS ...... 7 IV . STANDING COMMITTEES ...... 7 V . SPECIAL COMMITTEES ...... 8 D. AF'FILIATEDSOCIETIES ...... 8 E . SUSTAINING MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY ...... 8 F . ANNOUNCEMENTS I . 1969FORAYPLANS ...... 8 I1 . NOMENCLATURESERVICE ...... 9 I11 . MYCOLOGIA MEMOIRS ...... 9 G. PROFESSIONAL INFORMATION I . NEW MYCOLOGICAL RESEARCH PROJECTS ...... 9 I1 . KEW COURSES IN MYCOLOGY ...... 10 111 . FUNGI FOR DISTRIBUTION ...... 10 IV . FUNGIWmED ...... 10 v . FUNGI: IDENTIFICATION OF CULTURES AND SPECIMENS ...... 11 VI . MYCOLOGICAL ITPLS FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE ...... 12 VII . MYCOLOGICAL PUBLICATIONS NEEDED ...... 12 VIII . VACANCIES FOR MYCOLOGISTS WITH RECENT DOCTORATES ...... 13 IX . VACANCIES FOR MYCOLOGY GRADUATES ...... 13 X . AVAILABLE GRADUATE STUDENT ASSISTANTSHIPS ...... 13 XI . STUDENTS EXPECTING WCTORATES LOOKING FOR EMPLOYMENT ...... 14 XI1 . GRADUATES AT BACHELOR'S OR MASTER'S LEVEL FOR EMPLOYMENT ...... 14 HELP! (Mycologists)~~~~!...... 14 H . PERSONAL INFORMATION I . NEWAFFILIATIONS ...... 15 I1 . TRAVELINGMYCOLOGISTS ...... 15 I11 . AWARDSANDREWARDS ...... 15 IV . INVITATIONAL PAPERS AND LECTURES ...... 16 V . RETIRPIENTS, ILLNESSES, DEATHS ...... 16 VI . MATCHES AND HATCHES ...... 17 I . CORRESPONDENT ADDRESSES ...... 17 J . MYCOLOGICAL MISCELLANY ...... 19

Cover: This photograph of her father was selected from the family album by Mrs . Charles M . Rick . Jr., of Davis. California. as being his most typical pose during her childhood . The Mycological Society of America Founded December, 1931

~.ofIhe~ The New York Botanical Garden Bronx, New York 10458 December, 1968

To the Members of the Mycological Society of America

The year 1969 will be an unusual one for the Society. It is the year of the Eleventh International Botanical Congress to be held in Seattle, Washington, August 24-September 2, 1969. Because of this meeting the Board of Councilors, at the Columbus, Ohio, meeting, decided that we will not meet with AIBS in Vermont during 1969 and that no formal annual meeting will be held. All business of the Society for 1969 will be handled by mail. Mem- bers who have questions, problems, or suggestions for the Society should con- tact the President or the Secretary-Treasurer.

A reception for all mycologists attending the Botanical Congress in Seattle will be sponsored by the Mycological Society of America. I hope to see many of you there.

The 1969 annual foray will be held somewhere in the eastern part of the country. Vice-President R. P. Korf is making the arrangements.

The questionnaire returns regarding an International Mycological Congress indicated that a majority of our members favored such a Congress. Recent communication from the British Mycological Society indicates that its members also favor a Mycological Congress. The President of the Mycological Society of Japan has proposed that a Federation of Mycological Societies be formed, the main duty of which would be to organize international meetings of mycologists. Thus it appears that mycologists in general favor such a proj- ect. Communication with other societies will continue and perhaps the First International Mycological Congress can be scheduled for 1971 or 1972.

I would like to remind members of the exceptional opportunity available for the publication in MYCOLOGIA MEMOIRS of good manuscripts too lengthy to be acceptable in Mycologia. Publication without cost to the Society or to the author or his institution can be arranged for at least two MEMOIRS per year. Manuscripts are considered by the Mycologia Memoirs Committee. Authors should contact the Chairman, Dr. Leland Shanor.

Happy New Year to all of you. I will look forward to seeing you either on the foray, or at the Seattle Congress, or both.

Sincerely,

Clark T. Rogerson President CTR: JT B. SOCIETY BLISINESS: 1966

I. REPORT: -hard of Councilors

The Board of Councilors of the M;~cologic,?lSoc?et). of America met at 7:1'. p.m. on September 2, 1968, in tt'e Staff Room uf Mouck Bouse, Ohio State University, Colum@us, a quorum being present. At this meeting, and by mail ballor during t!!e year, the Couricil togk the following actions: 1. Heard reports of the Elanaging Edl,tor of flCOLO;:IA. of the Editor-in-Chief of XYCOLI)!:IA, uf the Co-Editors of the MSA NEWSLETTER, of the Program Chairman, as well as reports of Lhe Chairmen of the Society's Standinp 2nd .iiiecial Committees, and of the Socie~y's Official Representatives to AISS, AhkS, NRC, ATCC, and AKI; 2. rlected to Emeritus Memhershir, Howard W. John%:>n, Prtt~urG. Kevorkian, Fr.incis J. Scully. and George F. Weber; 3. Elected to Life !.lembership Xarry D. Tl~ie~son payment of a lump sum concrib~:ti.,n :dhi~i;!':is heen added to :lip Life Me;nbership Fund ; 4. .pprcve$. Lhe apprc.pri.i:ion in 1959 ol $TO';.!):! as finanii31 support on a conttnuing basis for the endormer~t of ATCC curat~rs'lips; 5. ,,;prove:! the appointment to the Edjt~rislDoard of mC(*LOGIA of H. L. Barnett for the period i969-1973; 6. Determined hy unanimous vote that the Sacie::; wuuld nut !lave a formal program m.eetir.8 in 1569, and requested the President to send Presidential Address and portrait to WCOLOGIA for publication; 7. Determined by unanimous vote that the Society would sponsor or co-sponsor a Mycologlcal Foray in 1969 :o he held at a time 3~td place to be determined; (See Item F-I, p. 8 1 8. Instructed the President-ElecL to investigate the possibility uf the Society sponsoring a reception for mycc>logists at the XI International Botanical Congress in Seattle, in 1959; 9. Considered at length the question of Society support for establishment of International Mycological Congresses ir view of the interest expressed in the preferential poll taken in December, 1967, of the Soc.iety membership, and decided that official acti.oi; hy the Society at this time was inappropriate, and that further action by the Council will occur: 10. Discussed at length a preliminary draft of a proposal for funding by a granting agel:cy of the preparation of a volui~egiving keys to the genera of all fungi, designad essentiaily to replace Clements & Shezr's GEEEM OF RJKCI; 11. Allocated by unanimous vote $2000.00 from the Research Grants & Publications Fund, representing contributions from our Sustaining Flembers, a:: the Society's contribution tg the preparation of such a volume on genera of fungi in the event that a final proposal is acted upon favorably by a granting agency; 12. Determined that the Society would not establish a permanent executive office in Washington in conjunction with AIaS as we had been invited to do; 13. Heard the report of the Tally Committee on election of new officers and members of the Board of Councilors for 1969; 14. Adjourned at 11:15 p.m.

11. MINUTES: Annual Business Meeting

President Simmons called the Business Meeting of the Society to order at 8:30 a.m., September 4, 1968, in Room 200, Campbell Hall, Ohio State University. The Secretary-Treasurer moved that the reading of the minutes of last year's business meeting be omitted since they had been published in full in the MSA NEWSLETTER 18 (2): 6-7. 1968. The motion was seconded and carried. The Secretary-Treasurer read his report covering the business, finances and membership activities of the last year, together with a 3-year overview on his retirement from this office. The report was approved. The report of the Auditing Committee (G. S. Abawi, J. C. Kiefer) was read by President Simmons. (See Item B-IV, p.6 ) President Simmons then announced the names of officers incumbent and newly elected for 1968: (see Item C-I, p 7, for list) Dr. R. W. Lichtwardt read his report as Editor-in-Chief of MYCOLOGIA: The 1968 volume of MYCOMGIA wiZZ be the Largest in .its 60 years of existence, and wiZZ totaZ more than 2200 pages. It is anticipated that publication wi2Z remain at about 1200 pages per volume for the next few years. The July-August, 2968, issue is in page proof, and galley proof is being set for the September-October issue. Enough manuscript is on hand to complete the 1968 votme ad to fill the first two issues of next year's volume. This means that our pubZication scheduZe is favorable for prospective authors. A slight change in fomt ma initiated with tke 1968 volume. The address of the author and the Smary now appear on the title page of regular articles so as to make this page more informative. The section of the journal formerly caZled Notes and Brief ArticZes is now Brief Articles, ad the names and addresses of authors appear under the title rather than at the end of the article. A few changes in type have been made. AZZ reguZar articles now carry the date of acceptance of the manuscript. In order to give more complete coverage to new books, periodicals, and fiZms of interest to mycotogists, the Editor-in-Chief estab- lished the position of Book Review Editor. Dr. Aha Whiffen Barksdate has kindly consented to undertake all book revia duties for MYCOLOGIA. Members of the Society are encouraged to send to her books and other such materials that they wish to have reviewed. Dr. C. T. Rogerson read hie report as Managing Editor of MYCOLOGIA: Pinuncial Record: For the period July 2, Z967 through June 30, 2968, income amounted fin round figures) to $52,000. This incZ~lded $5800~'~subscriptions, $23,000 from other subscriptions, $8500 from saZe of back issues and reprints, $9000 from page charges, $1300 as income from the Mycologia Endoment Fund, and $3200 from the saZe of the 55-votme MycoZogia Index. Expenses totatted $39,000 which incZuded direct expenses of $24,000 for printing and mailing five issues of MycoZogia, $500 for expenses of Editor-in-Chief, $5800 for the Pubtications Office, and indirect expenses of $7800. Thus thre ms an excess of income over ex- penses mounting to $12,700. Since the Mycotogia fund &Lance on July 2, 1967 was $24,200, the fund batance as of June 30, 1368 ms $27,000. However, the cost of printing the 58-voZme MjcoZogia Index has not been paid as yet and this batonce :)it2 be re- duced to zero when the bit2 is paid. If most libraries raw subscribing to MycoZogia purchase the Index, we ui2Z recouF the investment. The MycoZogia EMoment Fund as of June 30, 1968 was $3Z,000, an increase of $705 over the previous bar. WcoZoqia Index: The Index to the first 58 volumes (2909-2366) of Mycologia was publisheci on 24 May 2968. The Index was dedicated to Dr. F. J. Seaver, no~lin his 91st year, who as an editor for Nycologia for nearly 40 yea2.s included 22 years as the Editor or Editor-in-Chief, was ZargeZy responsibZe .for the continuation of the journaZ duri-ng a criticaZ period. Thc index consists of 25 pages of prefatory material plus 2207 pages divided into an indez to fungous taxa, a host index, and a subject index. The pubtica- tton of the Index completed a 3-year project by a cornittee of 48 members ef the Society with the Managing Editor as chainan. Plans are underway to prepare and publish a SuppZement every ten years or ten voZ:mes; the first Supplement wi2Z cover voZmes 59 through 70. If anyone should find major errors in the 58-votme Index, please Lei- the Managing E,?itor kr~wso tilac a list of corr.cotions cnn be inc2uried in the first Supptement. Mycotoqia Memoirs: Myootogia Memoir No. 2, "The Gesus Clavulinopsis in North hcricil," by Dr. Ron~Zd H. Peterscn, Universrt~of Tennessee, is due to be pubZished in October, 1968. This consists of 40 pa3es an:! six cotored ;i-rics. A contract dth Hafner PubZishing Co. has been signed to publish ,!lycologia Menioir ?lo. 3, "li~orthfu-:ericzni~ec?i~s of Gpnopilus," bt/ Dr. i. R. Hesler, University of Tennessee. This paper is now at the printers and shuuZd be puEZishcd in eai7:ij Spriri3 of i969. MjcoZogia Memoir No. z, "A MycoZogicaZ EngLish-Latin Glossary," by !~1issEdith K. Cash, was published in 1965'. Our contrac:. with Hefner PlcbZishing to. specifie.~that no rogzlties are paid untiZ thc costs of publicatio? ha3ie ken r~ecovur~ed.Sales have now reached this goal ad we should receive a royatty payment later this year. AZZ income received by the New York Botanical Garden from the sale of hijcoZogia Memoirs goes into a hijcoZogia Memoirs fund and can be used only for the pubZication of future Mycozogia Memoirs.

APPROVED.

The Secretary-Treasurer presented the Report of the Board of Councilors for 1968.

APPROVED.

Dr. Wm. Bridge Cooke and Dr. J. A. Schmitt commented on the success of the MSA foray, despite the dry spell which had severe effects upon the fleshy fungus flora. Dr. Cain moved that the Society express to these two members, who served as Co-Chairmen of the Foray, and to Dr. Wayne Ellett of Ohio State University, the Society's sincere thanks for their efforts in making the foray a success. The motion was unanimously approved.

The Secretary-Treasurer then presented a slate of candidates for election. All were elected. (See Item C-I, p. 7)

There being no items of Unfinished Business, the Society then considered New Business.

Dr. Kenneth Raper rose to raise a question on the present status of the Mycology Guidebook. Dr. Ralph Emerson, a member of the Mycology Guidebook Committee, answered in the absence of the Chairman of that Committee that a meeting of the Committee had been held the previous day, and that a decision had been reached to attempt completion of the Guidebook in a two-step phase, with the production of a rough, preliminary draft perhaps by next year at this time, that very possibly this preliminary draft would be reproduced in a multilith edition for testing and appraisal by mycologists prior to final production of a draft perhaps two years later suitable for publication.

Dr. Raper, who is Chairman of the U.S. National Committee of the XI International Botanical Congress, also called attention to the fact that the five-day Mycology Field Trip to the Olympic peninsula which had been announced in the first Congress circular has been can- celled on the advice of Dr. Stuntz of The University of Washington, whose opinion it was that this would be a very poor time of year for collecting fungi there. Dr. Raper emphasized that the Congress did not block out a mycology trip, but acted on the advice of the local agaricologist. There will, apparently, be some opportunity for a post-Congress field trip being arranged by Dr. Alexander H. Smith. The second Congress circular will contain information on this.

Dr. C. R. Benjamin then rose to move a vote of thanks to the officers and councilors who have served this year.

There being no additional new business, the meeting was adjourned at 9:15 a.m. President Rogerson then assumed the chair, and President Simmons presented his Presidential Address as retiring president, "Perfect states of Stemphylium."

111. ANNUAL REPORT: Secretary-Treasurer

This report covers the fiscal records of August 1, 1967 to July 31, 1968, and the membership records of August 10, 1967 to August 26, 1968.

1. SPECIAL BUSINESS: The major unusual items of business transacted during the year have been the payment of $= to the XI International Botanical Congress as support from the Society, representing the first payment of the $= to be paid over a two-year period, and the first award of the Society's annual Graduate Prize for a paper presented at the annual meetings by a graduate student or recent Ph.D. The membership was poLled and adopted two changes in the Bylaws: one raised the minimum dues for Sustaining Members to $100 annually; the other established a Committee on Education as a Standing Committee of the Society.

2. FINANCIAL CONDITION: (See Item IV; ANNUAL REPORT: Auditing Committee, p.6 )

a. Investments at the present time consist of: (2) Life Membership Fund (a) $500 face value of U.S. Treasury bonds at 2 112% interest. (b) $900 in the savings account. (2) Memoirs Fund of $4266.39 in the savings account. (3) Research Grants 6 Publications Fund of $4479.18 in the savings account. (4) Operational Reserve Fund (a) $1500 face value of U.S. Treasury bonds at 2 112% interest. (b) $1000 in the savings account.

b. Operating Account: During the period covered by this report, the Society collected $11,781.39. Operating expenses and transfers from this account to the savings account totalled $11,503.92. Receipts exceeded disbursements by $201.53. Disbursements exceeded receipts by $79.9/i in 1967, and by $709.30 in 1966. Balancini, +_hetransfer of $1000 transferred to the operating reserves yields a true excess of receipts over disbursements of $1201.53 for this year.

c. Savings Account: (2) As of 31 July 1968, there were 26 Sustaining T*lembers in the Society. A total of $9was received from them in 1967 Disbursements against these receipts totalled $1585.17. The balance of S26-T was transferred to the Research Grants 6 Publications Fund. (2) Interest on U.S. Treasury bonds totalled $22; interest on the savings account was $469.57. The total, $499.97 was transferred to the Memoirs Fund. (3) A transfer of $= from the accivs operating account to the Operational Reserve Fund was made. (4) A transfer of $2000 from the Operational Reserve Fund to the active operating account wa5 effected in order to support the XI International Botanical Congress.

The savings account thus increased by $64.80 in 1968, bringing it to a total of $10 645.57. Of this total, $4266.39 is reserved to the Memoirs Fund; $%belongs to the Life Membership Fund; $1000 makes up the 0peratio;al Reserve Fund; and the balanre of $4479.18 is assigned to the Committee on Research Grants & ~ublicatiozThis committee, in 1968, awarded the Society's Graduate ~elcwxin the amount of $750 to Robert F. Devlin and the Society's annual Graduate Prize in the amount of $100 to Harold H. Burdsall, Jr. The committee also contributed the honorarium customarily paid to the Annual Lecturer.

d. NSF Grant: The National Science Foundation Grant awarded to the Society in September, 1963, is handled through a Special Checking Account in the Fra~ninghamTrust Co., Framingham, &ss. NSF Grant Funds are restricted to tbe use of the Society's Mycology Guidebook Committee and are accountable and returnable to NSF on demanJ or if unused. Of che original grant of $24,690, installments totalling $12,625 have been received. Expenditures have been $11,322.64, leaving a cash balance of $1302.36 and a balance due of $12,065.

3. MEMBERSHIP: As of August 26, 1968, the Society counted 1140 regular members; 19 life members; 7 corresponding members; 23 emeritus members; 25 sustaining members; 6 affiliated societies; and 44 associates in its active file, a total of 1264, representing a net gain of 41 members in the past year. It is my sad duty to report to the Society the death of 15 members of the Society: James Theophilus Barrett (a charter member), Augusto Chaves Batista, Charles D. Chupp (a charter member), Don B. Creager (a charter member), Claude Wilbur Esgerton (a charter member), Henry Campbell Greene, Sylvia L. Laine, Ivar Jorstad (a charter member), Stanley Glenn Knight, Charles Lyman Porter (a charter member), George Smith, Irene Rollman, Jean X. Foley, J. A. Gammel (a charter eember), and Leslie N. Goodding (a charter member), and Dora ~eintraub. At the business meeting held at Ohio State University on 4 September 1968, 101 Regular Members, 1 Sustaining Member, and 7 Associates were elected to the Society.

As of November 25. 1968, the Society was constituted as follows: Regular Members ...... 1149 Life Members ...... 19 Corresponding Members ...... 7 Emeritus Members ...... 23 Sustaining Members ...... 25 Affiliated Societies ...... 5 Associates ...... 45 Total ...... 1273 These figures include 17 Regular Members and 1 Associate who applied for 1968 after the Ohio meeting and thus have not been officially elected. In addition, 9 persons have already applied for regular membership to begin in 1969.

A Three Year Overview

Past Secretary-Treasurers have availed themselves of this chance to comment briefly on their term of office, and I shall continue the habit (for surely in a Society as young as this one, traditions can scarcely have been said to be established).

The duties of the Secretary-Treasurer for his 3-year service fall into two broad areas: membership and financial operations. Pre- viously he was also rwponsible for the annual program, but the establishment of the position of Program Chairman has relieved the office of this major task. The MSA NEWSLETTER was also formerly edited by the Secretary-Treasurer, and though the incumbent has served as Co-Editor with his colleague, Mr. Sanchez, the editing and preparation of the Newsletter should no longer be considered a necessary duty of the office of Secretary-Treasurer.

FINANCES: Our assets (in cash and savings) have increased in the three year period from $12,329.08 to $14,689.86, an increase of $2,360.78. Our healthy financial position seems assured for the forseeable future.

MEMBERS.YIP: Total membership in the Society has increased from 1092 to 1264 in the past 3 years, an increase of 172 members. It seems probable that the rapid growth phase of the Society is nearing its end, since we had an increase of 316 members in the three-year period pzior to this one.

In closing, I wish particularly to thank the officers and committee chairmen for their help and kind indulgence. To my successor I can only wish equal cooperation. These three years have been instructive, at times exasperating, but always challenging, and I con- sider it an honor to have served the Society in this role. I cannot leave ofiice without giving a special word of thanks to the two secretaries without whose patience I could not have functioned, Mrs. Bonnie Pritchard and Miss Patricia Lounsbery, of Cornell University's Department of Plant Pathology. The frequent assistance and forbearance of Apdinar Sanchez, Senior Curator of the Depart- ment Herbarium, and of my several graduate students, is likewise gratefully acknowledged. /stRichard P. Korf, Secretary-Treasurer

IV. ANNUAL REPORT: Auditing Committee

Your Auditing Committee has examined the records of the Secretary-Treasurer, Richard P. Korf, for the period 1 August 1967 to 31 July 1968 and has found them to be correct. The present financial status of the Society is as follows. The checking account is maintained with theTompkins County Trust Co. Ithaca, N.Y., and the Savings Account with the Ithaca Savings Bank, Ithaca, N. Y.

1. Assets (Unencumbered) : a. Balance in Checking Account ...... $ 2,038.29 b. Savings Account Balance ...... 10,645.57 c. U.S. Treasury Bonds (two $1000 at face value) ...... 2,000.00 d. Petty cash and postage ...... 6.00 TOTAL (Unencumbered Assets) ...... $14,689.86 2. Liabilities, none ...... $ 0.00 1st George S. Abawi - Auditing Committee J. Kiefer

V. AWARD: Annual Graduate Prize

The Committee on Research Grants and Publications anrounces that the annual Graduate Prize was awarded to Jerome Motta of the Univer- sity of California, Berkeley, for the paper he presented before the Society at the Columbus meeting. Dr. Motta's paper was entitled, "Somatic nuclear division in Amnillaria metlea." Prior to going to the University of California where he studied with Dr. Melvin S. Fuller, Dr. Motta obtained his master's degree under the direction of Dr. Harry Thiers at San Francisco State College. His Ph.D. thesis, which was completed in June, 1968, was en- titled. tolo^^ lo^^ and Morphogenesis in AniLZaria mellea", and included morphological, histochemical, ultrastructural, and physiolog- ical study of the rhizomorph. Dr. Motta is presently doing postdoctoral work on fungal physiology with Professors Weinhold and Hancock in the Department of Plant Pathology at the University of California. The next prize will be awarded at the Society's 1970 meeting at Indiana University. C. ORGANIZATION: 2968-2969

I. OFFICERS AND COUNCILORS

President, 1968-69 C. T. Rogerson, New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, N.Y. 10458 President-Elect, 1968-69 R. F. Cain, Dept. of Botany, University of Toronto, Toronto 5, Ontario, Canada Vice-President, 1968-69 R. P. Korf, Dept. of Plant Pathology, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. 14850 Secretary-Treasurer, 1968-71 R. L. Shaffer, Universlty Herbarium, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich. 48104 Councilor-East, 1967-69 E. S. Luttrell, Dept. of Plant Pathology, University of Georgia, Athens, Ga. 30601 Councilor-East, 1968-70 R. H. Petersen, Dept. of Botany, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tenn. 37916 Councilor-West, 1967-69 A. L. Welden, Dept. of Botany, Tulane University, New Orleans, La. 70118 Councilor-West, 1968-70 H. D. Thiers, Dept. of Biology, San Francisco State College, San Francisco, Calif. 94132 Councilor-Canada, 1967-69 S. J. Hugh~s,Plant Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Past President (1966-67) C. R. Benjamin, National Fungus Collections, Beltsville, Md. 20705 Past President (1967-68) E. G. Simmons, Pioneering Research Laboratory, U.S. Army Natick Laboratories Natick, Mass. 01760

11. REPRESENTATIVES TO SCIENTIFIC ORGANIZATlONS

Representatives on the Council, American Association for the Advancement of Science (2-year term). To be appointed

Governing Board, American Institute of Biological Sciences (4-year term) 1968-i1, K. B. Stevens, Division of Biology and Agriculture, National Research Council, Uashington, D. C. 20418. Board of Trustees, American Type Culture Collection (3-yzar term) 1968-70, C. R. Benjamin, Natiunsl Fungus Collections, Beltsville, Md. 20705. National Research Co~ncil(?-year term, beginning 30 June) 1967-70, C. W. Hesseltine, Northern Regional Research Laboratory, Peoria, Ill. 61604. Agricultural Research Institute (3-year term) 1967-69, C. I,. Lefebvre, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.20250 Alternate: Marie L. Farr, National Fungus Collections, Reltsville, Md. 20705.

111. EDITORS

MYCOLOGIA: Editorial Board R. W. Lichtwardt, Editor-in-Chief, 1966-70, Dept. of BuLdny, University of Kansas. Lawrence, Kans. 66045 C. T. Rogerson, Yanagi.?g Editor, New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, N.Y.. 10458 H. L. Barnett, 1964-68, 1969-73, Dept. of Plant Patllology, West :'irgii;ia L'nivprslt:;, Morgantown, k'.Va. 26506 R. P. Korf, 1965-69, Dept. of Plant Pathology, Cor~!e:l University, Ith.+c.i, !.l.Y. 14850 L. Shdnor, 1966-70, Dept. of ZoLany, University of Florida, Gainsville, Sla. 32601 T. Sproston, 1967-71, Dept. of Botany. University of Vrrmozt, Surlingion, Vt. 05401 H. E. Wheeler, 1967-i1, Dept. ?f Sotxn), University of Kentucky, Lcxingron, Ky. 40505 G. 8. Cummins. 1960-72, Dept. Botany & Pl.ln' PaLhology, Purduc University, Ldfaye~t~,Tlid. 4790; (Book Review Editor: A1rr.a W. Barksdale, New York Botaxica! Geiden, Bronx, K.Y. LOA58) EtwGII'. FEXOIRS: Board of Editors L. Shznor, Chairma;!, DepL. or Bct.auy, Univer.;ity cf i';:>riLl~l,i;.~iricsvil!e, Fla. 3Lhr.l

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IV. STA'.mI:iG I:Om+ITTEEC 1. CommiLree on E'lr!ance E. C,. Simmons, lFC2-71; K. 2. Korf, 1955-7:; R. i. S'lt fcer, 19f,?(-77. 2. Comircee on ?!~Aic?1 PZycoLo~y Irene Weitzman, Chairmsn 1?66-$9; .J. ii. Xi ?pan, 1'167 7G; ::.;rt.ha i!. Eerll-er, i9ha -71. 3. ConmiiLee on Membership .Johq E. Frterson, Cl~airrrao, !.9i.fl-71 ; Risbe: r A. S1loes:alc r, 1 .-hij-65: $37: Slnlshsll, 19r~8-7ii; Wm. E. Denison, 1968-71; Xonzld li. Peterbel:, 1958-72. 4. Commictee on Nomeoclature R. P. Korf, Chairman, 1968-71 R. I.. Sha:f;,r, 1968-69 Luella K. Weresub, 1968-70 J. W. Groves, 1968-69 Marie L. Farr, 1968-73 G. I,. HenneberL, 1968-71 D. P. Rogers, 1968-69 G. W. Martin, 1968-70 Joanne K. Rogers, 1968-71 5. Committee on Sustaining Membership C. L. Kramer, Chairman 1968-71 E. S. Beneke, 1968-70 R. A. Paterson, 1968-69 J. A. Schmitt, Jr. 1968-71 M. A. Espensl~ade1968-70 R. T. Haard, 1968-69 6. Committee on Research Grants and Publications M. S. Fuller, Chairman, 1968-71 J. Maniotis, 1968-71 Alma W. Barksdale, 1968-70 C. L. Kramer, Ex ofticio 7. Committee on Annual Lecturer J. R. Raper, Chairman, 1968-71; C. T. Rogerson, 1966-69; A. S. Sussman, 1969-72 8. Committee on Education H. Whisler, Chairman, 1968-70; J. L. Koevenig, 1968-70; C. J.Anastasiou., 1968-71 9. Committee on Publication of Memorials R. W. Lichtwardt, Editor-in-Chief of MYCOLOGIA C. T. Rogerson, President and Historian of the Society 10. Historian C. T. Rogerson V. SPECIAL COMMITTEES (1968-1969)

1. Committee on Color Standards K. H. McKnight, Chairman; W. Illman; M. M. Kulik; 0. K. Miller, Jr.; R. L. Shaffer 2. Committee on Preparation of a Proposal for a Revision of "Genera of Fungi" C. R. Benjamin, Chairman; R. P. Korf; A. H. Smith D. AFFILIATED SOCIETIES

The Society's six affiliated societies are all actively engaged in bringing mycology to the attention of both professional and so- called amateur mycologists. All produce news bulletins and other similar publications, and sponsor regular programs, especially collecting trips (in season). Members of the MSA would be well advised to seek membership in one of our affiliated societies if there is any chance of participation, since more active or keener groups of observers would be difficult to find. Those of us who have had the opportunity to collect with some of these "a%ateursl'will realize how little the "professional" mycologist may know about rnush- rooms in the field (or, for that matter, from a Cu5ina1-j viewpoint!). These Societies are: BOSTON MYCOLOGICAL CLUB, Erhart Muller, Treas., Shaker Village, Harvard, Mass. 01451 LE CERCLE DES MYCOLOGUES AMATEURS DE QUEBEC, Dept. Biologie, Cite Universitaire, Ste.-Foy, P.Q., Canada MYCOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN FRANCISCO, Josephine D. Randall Junior Museum, Roosevelt Way 6 16th Street, San Francisco. Calif. 94114 TEE NORTH &ERICAN MYCOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION, Harry S. Knighton, Chm., 1721 Grandview Ave., Portsmouth, Ohio 45662 OREGON MYCOLOGICAL SOCIETY, Donald Coete, Treas., 6548 S. E. 30th Ave., Portland, Ore. 97202 SOCIETE MYCOLOGIQUE DE FRANCE, 36 rue Geof froy-Saint-Hilaire, Paris ve , France

E. SUSTAINING MEMBERS OF TRE SOCIETY

ABBOTT LABORATORIES, North Chicago, Illinois. Pharmaceutical products for the medical profession since 1888. AEROSOL TECHNIQES, INC., 432 Frog Tom Road, New Canaan, Conn. AMERICAN OPTICAL CO., INSTRUMENT DIVISION, Buffalo, N. Y. 122 years of leadership in optics and 115 years of progressive achievement in microscopes. BioQLEST BBL and FALCON DIVISIONS. Products for the microbiological laboratory. BUCXIlAlY LABORATORIES, INC., Memphis. Tenn. 38108. Industrial microorganism control specialists. BIITLER COUNTY MUSHROOM FARM, West Winfield, Pennsylvania. CAMPBELL SOP COPANY, Camden, New Jersey. DIFCO LABORATORY PRODUCTS. The complete line of microbiological reagents and media. FISRER SCIENTIFIC COMPANY, Manufacturer-Distributor of laboratory apparatus 6 reagent chemicals. Mycological needs of all types in stock at convenient local branches. ROFFU4N-LA ROCHE, INC., Nutley, N. J. 07110. Pharmaceuticals, vitamins and aromatic chemicals. LAB-LINE INSTRMNTS, INC., Melrose Park, Ill. 60160. Quality manufacturers-designers of laboratory apparatus, instruments and equipment. LAN6 SCIENCE EQUIPMENT CO. Complete line of museum storage cabinets -- especially herbarium cabinets -- airtight for permanent protection. ELI LIZLYAND COMPANY, 740 South Alabama Street, Indianapolis, Ind. Pharmaceuticals, biologicals, and agricultural and industrial products. THE WM. S. MERRELL COMPANY, Division of Richardson-Merrell Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio. Pharmaceutical manufacturers since 1828. MILES LABORATORIES, INCORPORATED, Elkhart, Ind. Pharmaceutical and chemical research and manufacture. NORWICH P,WRMCAL COMPANY, EATON LABORATORIES DIVISION, Norwich, New York. Ethical pharmaceuticals. PARKE, DAVIS 6 COMPANY, Detroit, Mich. 48232. Pioneers in better medicines. CRAS. PFIZER AND CO., INC., 11 Bartlett Street, Brooklyn 6, N.Y. Fine chemicals and pharmaceuticals by means of micro- organisms. SCRERING CORPORATION, Bloomfield, N.J. Pharmaceutical manufacturers. SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTS FOWDATION, Evanston, Ill. Supported by companies dedicated to the biological sciences. (Member company names on request) THE SQUIBB INSTITIITE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH, E. R. Squibb and Sons, Div. of Olin iVenzymes and fermentation chemicals. WARNER-LAMBERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE, Centml Research Division of the Warner-hmbert PhamceuticaZ Company, Morris Plains, N.J.

F. ANNOWCEMENTS

I. 1969 FORAY PLANS

The Mycological Society of America will hold a foray in 1969 even though the formal meetings of the Society will not be held. Many MSA members will be attending the XI International Botanical Congress in Seattle, which will draw to a close on September 2. In lieu of a post-Congress field trip to the Olympic Peninsula for mycologists, which has been called off by the Congress in view of the low rainfall expected at that time of the year, there is a Special Mycology Workshop scheduled for the University of Michigan Biological Station, on Douglas Lake, near Pellston, Michigan. This Workshop, under the direction of Dr. Alexander H. Smith, will begin on Sept. 5, and last for 2 weeks. Many of the foreign mycological visitors to the Botanical Congress are expected to take part in the Workshop, as will many USA members concerned with the higher fungi. Through the courtesy of Dr. Smith, and of Dr. Frederick K. Sparrow, Director of the Biological Station, arrangements have been made to allow the MSA Foray to be held jointly with the Workshop. The MSA Foray dates are tentatively scheduled for Sept. 9 - 13. Full details on the Workshop and on the MSA Foray will be provided to the membership at a later date by Vice-President Korf. This may be a fine opportunity for those who are unable to go to Seattle to meet some of the distinguished foreign mycologists who will attend both the Congress and the I4orkshcp. 11. NOMENCLATURE SERVICE

Members who have nomenclatural problems of any sort, and who wish advice upon these, are requested to contact the Chairman of the Nomenclature Committee, Dr. Richard P. Korf, Plant Pathology Herbarium, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. 14850, for assistance.

111. MYCOLOGIA MEMOIRS

The second MEMOIR is soon to come from the press and the manuscript for the third has been accepted by the Memoirs Committee. The Committee would like to remind MSA members that the MEMOIRS series is available for unusually long papers, monographs, and similar contributions. The Committee stands ready at all times to review manuscripts. Correspondence concerning these should be addressed to Dr. Leland Shanor, Chairman, Dept.'of Botany, University of Florida, Gainesville, Fla. 32601.

G. PROFESSIONAL INFORMATION (The number in parentheses following the namecs) refers to the address(es) for contact in Section I, which begins on p.17)

I. NEW MYCOLOGICAL RESEARCH PROJECTS

1. Myxomycetes a) Electron microscope and cytology of the protostelids (Mycetozoa). (L.S. Olive (1) and J. S. Furtado) b) Role of cell membranes during cell differentiation in slime molds. (I. K. Ross (2)) c) Aging and rejuvenation in plasmodia1 slime molds. (I. K. Ross (2)) 2. Phycomycetes a) Marine phycomycetes of Friday Harbor Area. (F. K. Sparrow (3)) b) Study of the phycomycetes in soils of the mid-Hudson region. (H. H. Ho (4)) 3. Ascomycetes a) A nomenclatural study: generic names of the Pezizales and attendant nonenclatural problems. (Joanne K. Rogers (5)) b) Monograph of the PsiZopezia-PachyeZZa complex. (D. H. Pfister (5)) c) Cultural studies of Pezizale:. (J. W. Paden (6)) d) Studies of chromatin and nucleic acid interactions from differentiated cells of Reurospora. (S. K. Dutta (7)) e) A study of spore germination of CFaetomim thermophiZe. (C. L. Fergus (8)) f) Cytomorphological studies on some members of ChaetomiaZes. (K. G. Mukerji (9)) g) Investigation on the biomass of yeasts in the sea of the Strait of Georgia. (H. Seki (10)) h) Investigation on the disease of Marine copepods by Metschnikcuia species. (H. Seki (10)) i) Floristic and taxonomic study of the Hysterialcs cf the Pacific Northwest. (H. Goree (11))

4. Basidiomycetes a) Life cycles, host relationships and morphology of three North American grass rusts. (J. W. Baxter (12;) b) Amanitas of North carolina. (L. F. Grand (13)) C) Boletaceae of North Carol!na. (L. F. Grand (13)) d) Physiological and morphological study of hlack ,pared Agarics, genus :;, z,o~~~and genus 5traophnria. (G. N. Ola'h (14)) e) Taxonomy and cultural studies on Aphyllophorales of western North America. (J. 11. Ginns (15)) f) Genus Coniphom - A taxonomic study. (A. R. Slysh (16)) g) Morphogenesis of basidiocarps in Tr.metes hispi&. (N. Oshima (17)) h) Cytology and sexuality of >?metis ?!ispi&. (N. Oshima (17)) i) Studies on the relationship between forest insects and Poiypo2.d~ voi?:utz

5. Deuteromycs (Fungi Inperfecti: a) St-idles on the genus C~rynespc~a. (C. H. illa?quez (19)) 4. =tigrouping or Miscellaneous_ a) Taxonomy d fungi. (F. D. Calonge. (20)) b) Checklist and host index of the fungi of Colorado (Eum:,cotina). (5. Shushan (21) and H. 3. Simns (22)j

C) Mycorrliizal stydirs on hard woods in southern 0nLar.s. (J. i'. Park (2~)) d) Physiology of wood-decay fungi fram the Icland Nor::i~weqt. (4. 11. Parcridgc (24)) ej Some m~cological st.~diesof oursii? chip stozage. !K. 5. Smith (25))

f! Sail microfungi iri rtit grcisslan:i eccsvstem. (?I. Chr isLenseu (26) >

g) Soil micrcfgngi of Vancouver Isiand. (J. k.!. Paderr 16)) h) Soii fungi of Argentina; ecoicgy and t-xcnu!nr. (J. '3. Wrigiit (27)) i) Panamanian soil and iea: litter fungj. (J. ?ianiotis (28)) j) Studies on microfungi of S'h0l.c~1,ohsta lezt litter. (P. C. Misr- (29)) k) Effects of chronic gamma irradiation on microfungal populations in a for~is?suil. (S.E. Goshcnaur (30) and G. Woodwell) 1) Marine fungi of Iceland. (A. R. Cavaliere (31)) m) Marine fungi of Puerto Ricu. (C. 3etanco:~rt(32)i n) A study of the filngi rrspofisihie for a:.thn,sEic b?oncl;itl.; and ;11lc:gic rkinirii. (C. Detant.ourL (32)) o) Infertility in animals caused by mycotoxins. (P. Krogh (33)) p) Aerobiological survey of peanut fields. (K. B. Deshpande (34)) q) Studies in seed pathology. (K. B. Deshpande (34)) r) Extraction of proteins from leaves. (K. B. Deshpande (34)) s) Computer pattern-recognition techniques in fungal taxonomy. (B. Kendrick (35))

11. NEW COURSES IN MYCOLOGY 1. Puerto Rico: Advanced Mycology- Spring, 1969. (L. A. Roure (32)) 2. United States: East a) District of Columbia: Medical Mycology; No dates given. (S. K. Dutta (7)) b) Maryland: General Mycology; Spring, 1969. (M. G. Anderson (36)) c) Massachusetts: Introductory Mycology; Summer, 1969. (A. W. Thurston (37)) d) North Carolina: Marine Mycology: Summer, 1969. (J. Kohlmeyer (38) and W. J. Koch) e) North Carolina: A NSF-supported Summer Short Course in Mycology for college teachers is being held at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, June 9-27. The Course is sponsored by the Botanical Society of America and is designed to bring the 30 selected participants up to date on recent developments in the field. The teaching staff will consist of John Couch, Peter Day, A. J. Domnas, Melvin Fuller, W. J. Koch, L. S. Olive, John Raper, Kenneth Raper, and D. P. Rogers. (L. S. Olive (1) f) Pennsylvania: Molds, Mushrooms, and Man; Spring, 1969. (A. R. Cavaliere (31)) g) Virginia: Medical Mycology (1 quarter course at graduate level); Fall, 1969. (S. and H. J. Shadomy (39)) h) West Virginia: Medical Mycology; No dates given. (R. S. Pore (40)) 3. United States: Mid-West a) Minnesora (at Lake Itasca Biology Station: Aquatic Fungi (by T. W. Johnson (41)); Introductory Mycology (by A. R. Cavaliere (31)); Lichens (by M. E. Hale); Summer, 1969. (Contact D. W. French (42)) 4. United States: West a) California: Medical Mycology (MMI 210); Spring, 1969. (D. H. Howard (43)) b) ColorSdo: Survey of Fungi. No dates given. (B. Reeves (17)) c) Wyoming: Aquatic Botany (at L'niv. of Wyoming Science Camp); Summer, 1969. (J. W. Baxter (12))

------WITH REFERENCE-~2 ~T~-(~~~D-(~!-~-s~E~I~~s-(-~~D(~)) ~N-I~SIII,~V~~-~,-N~T~:- The provisions of the Federal Plant Pest Act of 2957 and the Regulations issued thereunder reauire that plant pathogens will move izterstate urder a permit issued by the Plant marantine Division, U.S. Departnient of Agriculture, Federal Center Building, Hyattsville, :4d. 20781. Your re- quests for permits uLll be given prompt attention.

111. EUNGI (CUI.TURES OR SPECIMENS) FOR DISTRIBUTION 1. Myxomycetes: a) 30 species ((c! and (s)) available in exchange. (H. Ling (44)) b) Write for information. (L. McGraw (45)) 2. Phycomycetes: Pythim spp. (c). (0. Vaartaja (46)) 3. Ascomycetes: Chaetomidim (c.s.); Chaetomim (c.s.) ; Kernia (c.s.); Thieluvia (c.s.1; ~o~hotrichus(c.s.) (Not stated whether Eurotiales or ~redinales). (H. K. Seth (47)) 4. Basidiomycetes: a) Phmgmopyxis acmimta (s) on Coursetia; Peridenim ephedrae (s) on Ephedra trifurca. (J. W. Baxter (12)) b) Rusts (Uredinales) and Agaricales (s) . (C. Betancourt (32)) C) Thelephoraceae (s). (M. J. Larsen (23)) 5. Deuteromycetes (Fungi Imperfecti): Cryptococcus neofonans 1410561, TVGH (Taiwan Veterans General Hospital) Strain; Susceptible to Amphotericin B, 0.049 mcg!ml. (T. Jen (48))

1. Myxomycetes: a) Any species except Arcyria denudata, Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa, Rcligo septica, and PdcogaZa epidendrm (C. J. Alexopoulos (49)) b) Write for information (L. McGraw (45)) 2. Phycomycetes: a) Phytophthom and Pythium (Write for information to H. H. Ho (4)) b) Pythium (c) (0. Vaartaja (46)) C) Pythiwn echinulatm and Achlyir radiosa (c) (contact 0. Fidalgo (50)) d) Helicostylim (c) (K. G. Mukerji (9)) e) Soil or water samples containing Sommersto~ffiaspimsa for use in isolation studies. (R. W. Embree (51)) f) Endogone spp. (c) or (s) (J. W. Gerdemann (52)) 3. Ascomycetes: a) Aquatic Pyrenomycetes especially Cemtosphaeria and LuZwrthia (c) and (6). (K. E. Conway (53)) b) Gymnoascaceae (c). (F. T. Wolf (54))

C) Achaetcntiwn, Ascotricha, Chaetomiwn, Chaetmtidium, and Laphotrichus (c). (K. G. Mukerji (9)) d) Chetowridiwn mimtwn Cain. (c). (s), or a slide. (8. K. Seth (47)) e) Cemtocystis uZmi (c), which are producing synnemata. (J. Harris (55)) f) HypoXybn (s) and C00kei~(s) for spore studies (morphology, chemical resistance, etc.) (W. C. Elsik (56)) g) Fresh (8) of the following for cultural studies (should be sent via airmail w/o drying): DesmaziereZk. Sarcoscypha, Sarcosoma, Umruk, WoZfim, Wynnea (All Sarcoscyphaceae). (J. W. Paden (6)) h) AscoboZue imnersus and A. soatigenus f= A. zeiocarpus and A. magnificus (c). (P. E. Powell (5)) 1) Geopyzia and AcstuZina I= PustuZaria) (8) and material fixed in FAA, FPA, or other cytological fixative. (R. P. Korf (5.)) j) PachyeZZa and Psibpeaia (8). (D. H. Pfister (5)) k) Phaeosporous Sclerotiniaceae (s). (K. P. Dumont (5)) 1) Uectriopsis I= h'ectriul on Myxomycetes (c) or (6). (G. J. Samuels (57)) 4. Basidiom cetes: ,dm(c) or (8). (J. L. Cunningham (58)) b) RaveneZia opaca on Honey Locust (CZeditsia triacanthos), which is known only from type collection from southern Illinois. (J. W. Baxter (12)) c) Smuts with viable spores from any plant species (s). 04. D. Whitehead (59)) d) Jelly fungi (c). (P. D. Olexia (60))

e) Polyporaceae (6). (0. Fidalgo (50)) f) L&ota sp. sensu lato from the western United States (s). (W. J. Sundberg (61))

g) Tropical Sclerodermataceae (6). (G. Guzman (62)) 5. Deuteromycetes and Mycelia Sterilia (Fungi Imperfecti):

a) Aquatic Eyphomycetes (c) and (6). (K. E. Conway (53)) b) Cladosporiwn.cucwnerinwn. (J. W. Whaley (63)) c) Co~sporasp., especially C. casiiook (c). (C. 8. Blazquez (19)) d) Soil with isolates of Cryptococrms sp. (S. and H. J. Shadomy (39)) e) Cataattaria, Leptographiwn, PhiaZocephaZa moniliales (?)), and Sporoschisma (Moniliales (?I) (c). (G. C. Carroll (64)) f) Eetminthosporim. (K. B. Deshpande (34)) g) Penicizziwn crysogema isolates with high yields of penicillin (c). (R. T. Ehrlich (55)) h) Tetrapba sp. for spore studies (morphology, chemical resistance, etc.) (s). (W. .C. Elsik (56)) i) Strains of Cenococcum gronifonne (c). (J. Y. Park (23)) j) Rhiaoctcmia sp. with information relating substrate and geographic location (c). (R. W. Meyer (65)) 6. Multigrouping and Miscellaneous: a) Homothallic and heterothallic Phycomycetes, Ascomyoetes, and Basidiomycetes (c). (R. R. Nelson (8)) b) Marine fungi. (C. Betancourt (32)) c) Dimorphic fungi. (R. L. Storck (66)) d) Fungi that attack nematodes or other small soil organisms (c). (A. Thurston (37)) e) Pertusaria spp. and any species in Caliciales (6). (F. B. Erbisch (67)) f) Tropical lichens. (G. Guzman (62)) 8. FUNGI: IDENTIFICATION OF CULTURES AND SPECIMBNS 1. Myxomycetes: (c.6). (C. J. Alexopoulos (49)) 2. Phycomycetes: a) Saprolegniaceae (by A. I. Mikanez). (0. Fidalgo (50)) b) Pythiwn spp. (6). (0. Vaartaja (46)) C) Emfogone spp. (c,s). (J. W. Gerdemann (52)) 3. Ascomycetes: a) Marine fungi. (J. Kohlmeyer (38)) b) Hypocreaceae and Nectriaceae (c,s). (C. T. Rogerson (57)) C) Chaekmidiwn, Chaetomiwn, and Lophotrichus. (8. K. Seth (47)) d) AMohnopeziza, LamberteZk, Pachyetk, and Rutstroemia. (R. P. Korf (5)) e) Vibrissea. (A. Sanchez (5)) f) PachyeZk and Psibpeaia. (D. H. Pfister (5)) g) Tuberales including EZaphomyces (6). (J. M. Trappe (68)) 4. Basidiomycetes: a) CunntinsieZZa, RaveneZia, lhopyxis, and species of Puccinia on labiatae (a). (J. W. Baxter (12)) b) Kernia (Uredinsles (9)). (8. K, Seth (47)) c) TubercuZina (c,s). (J. L. Cunningham (58)) d) Agaricales. (R. L. Homola (69)) e) PmeoZus spp. (8). (G. M. Ola'h (14)) f) Boletales and Polyporaceae (6). (L. F. Grand (13)) g) Tropical Polyporaceae. (0. Fidalgo (50)) h) &nodem (s) with advance arrangements. (R. L. Steyaert (70)) 1) CZa,miu sensu strict0 (8). (P. D. Olexia (60)) j) Thelephoraceae a.s and Corticiaceae (s). (M. J. Larsen (23)) k) Coniophom, MeruZius, and SerpuZa (c,s). (J. H. Ginns (15)) 1) GastzwboZetus (a). (J. M. Trappe (68))

m) Sclerodermatsceae (8). (G. Guzman (62)) 5. Deuteromycetes (Pungi Imperfecti):

a) Aquatic Hyphomycetes (8). (K. E. Conway (53)) b) Aquatic Hyphomycetes. (J. L. Crane (71)) c) Achaetdm and-HeZicostyZm. (K. G. Mukerji (9)) d) HeZSnthosporim and Curvutaria (c). (R. R. Nelson (8)) e) Thielavia. (B. K. Seth (47)) fl Pestahtiu, Pestulotiopsis, and WncateZZa (~$8). (R. L. Steyaert (70)) 6. Lichens: a) Le-m gubfisca and lichens of Canada (advance arrangements required). (I. M. Brodo (72)) b) Caliciales. (F. 8. Erbisch (67)) VI. MYCOLOGICAL ITEMS FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE 1. e: a) Unbound Phytopatholopy, Vol. 7, No. 1 (1911) through Vol. 53, No. 12 (1963) (Nos. 6, 7, and 8 of Vol 8 missing) plus three indices covering Vols. 1 through 50. Price of $700.00 with purchaser paying shipping charges. (H. L. Keil (73)) b) Wish to swap one copy of Mycological Explorations of Venezuela for one copy of Mycological Explorations of Columbia. (A. L. Welden (74)) c) One copy each of Fundur, 1953. Practical Mycolom: Manual for.1dentification of Fungi ($5.00) and Schwarze. 1917. -The Parasitic Fungi of New Jersey (abundantly illustrated and $5.00). (J. L. Cunningham (58)) d) 0ne.Dicionario Micologico (in ~ortugese) for sale or exchange for $8.00 (U.S. currency), Memoir of the New York Botanical Garden 15 (2), and three mycological papers: Polyporaceae from Venezuela; The Genus Hemgonia; and PheZZims pachyphZeus and its Allies. (0. Fidalgo (50)) e) One copy of Thaxter, R. Contribution towards a Monograph of the Laboulbeniaceae. Part IV. (Clothbound) S15.00. (A. Sanchez (5)) f) One each for sale: Dodge, C. W. and G. E. Baker. 1938. The second Byrd Antartic Expedition. 11. Lichens and lichen parasites. (Clothbound with Part I - Ecology &geographical distribution by P. A. Siple.) Ann. Mo. Bot. Gard. 25: 467-727. (15.00); Tilden, J. 1910. Minnesota Algae. Vol. 1. Myxophyceae. 328 p. + 20 pl. Clothbound. ($17.00); Fink, B. 1910. The Lichens of Minnesota. Contrib. U.S. Nat. Herb. Vol. 14, Pt. 1. Clothbound. ($17.50); Wirth. M. and M. E. Hale, Jr. 1963. The Lichen Family Graphidiaceae in Mexico. 56 p. ($2.50); Fink, B. 1915. The Ascomycetes of Ohio. I (Introduction), and I1 (Collemaceae - Lichens). Ohio Biol. SUN. Bull. 5. 71 p. ($5.00); Tucker, C. M. 1931. Taxonomy of the genus P to hthora deBat7/. 208 p.($10.00). Seaver, F. J. 1910. Iowa Dis- comycetes. 156 p. ($5.00); Zundel, G. L.~Ustilaginalesof the World. 410 p. ($4.00). (J. L. Maas (73)) g) One copy each for sale: E. J. H. Corner. A Mono ra h of Clavaria and Allied Genera ($33.00); S. Kawamura. Icones of Japanese (8 volumes) $82.00; P. ~onrazand i.hublanc. Revision des Hymenomycetes de France ($18.00). (W. Lazo (75)) h) One copy (without stereo-slide set but see item VI, 2b below) for sale of A. H. Smith. Mushrooms in their Natural Habitats. (Fr. J. M. Bauchet (76)) 2. Slides, etc.: a) Teaching library of color photographs of dermatophytes (7 sets of 20 slides each) at $10.00 per set, from Dept. Medical Services, Schering Laboratories, Union, New Jersey. (C. H. Weiss (77)) b) Slides from A. H. Smith. Mushrooms in their Natural Habitats remounted two to four pictures to a single 35 mm frame (one or two species miss1ng)numbered individually as in lists in book; a 35 mm series of slides of mushrooms of the eastern U.S. taken by a botanist plus a selection of slides of American species of mushrooms distributed commercially in Prance (in a bloc $0.15 per slide; one ATCO No. 10046 microscope with 2 objectives and maximum magnification of 900 x. (Fr. J. M. Bauchet (76)) VII. MYCOLOGICAL PUBLICATIONS NEEDED 1. Journal of Mycology, vol. 14, Nos. 93 and 94. (D. P. Rogers (78)) 2. Cooke. Illustration of British Fungi, Eight volumes; Riecken, Vademecuor. (0. A. Brusis, HD. (79J)' 3. North American Flora, Vol. 7, Parts 11 and 12. (J.. L. Cunningham (58)) 4. A. Lister. 1894. TheMycetozoa (or a later edition). (J. E. Wright (27)) 5. Taxonomy (1967 or 1968 English edition published in Holland). (Mrs. Barbara Taylor (80)) Lodder, J., and Kreger-van Rij, N. J. W. The Yeasts. Amsterdam, 1952. North Holland Publishing Co., and Proceedings of the First Symposium on Coccidioidomycosis. (1957). Phoenix, Arizona. (D. T. Omieczynski (81)) Duby. 1862. Memoires sur la tribu des Hysterinees la famille des Hypoxylees (Pyrenomycetes). Mem. Soc. Phys. Hist. Nat. Geneve 16: 15-70. (H. Goree') (11)) Cumins, G. B. 1959. Illustrated Genera of Rust Fungi. Burgess Publishing Co. (M. McGinnis (82)) Grove, W. B. 1937. British Stem and Leaf Fungi. Vols. I and 11. Cambridge University Press. (J. G. Palmer (83)) Smith, A. L. 1921. Lichens. Cambridge Press. (F. H. Erbisch (67)) Littman, M. L. and L. E. Zimmerman. 1956. Cryptococcosis. Grune and Stratton, New York. (S. and H. J. Shadomy (39)) Harley, J. L. 1959. The Biology of Mycorrhiza. Ed. N. Polunin. London: Leonard Hill Ltd. (J. Y. Park (23)) Butler and Jones. Plant Pathology. (D. Hocking (84))

VIII. VACANCIES FOR MYCOLOGISTS WITH RECENT DOCTORATES 1. British Columbia: If you are interested in and zan qualify for a position in plant pathology, contact Dr. M. McClaren (18) for information. 2. Colorado: Assistant Professor, physiology of parasitism. Send Resume and transcripts to Dr. R. Ward, Chairman (17)). 3. Illinois: If your background includes training and research experience in genetics, request information frorn Dr. J. H. Grosklags (85) relevant to a position in Mycogenetics. 4. Indiana: Senior Microbiologist (Ph.D. level) with training in microbial physiology for process research studies on existing and new fermentation products. Contact Dr. D. H. Lively (86). 5. Oklahoma: Should you be interested in (1) a Microbial Geneticist at the assist an^ Proiessor level for research and teaching or (2) a Post-Doctorate in Pfedical Mycology for research in pathogenesis, contact Dr. G. S. Bulmer (87). 6. Texas: For information regarding vacancies at the Assistant Professor and Post-Doctorate levels, contact Dr. R. L. Storck (66). 7. Virginia: Post-Doctoral Fellowship under NIII-sponsored training grant in mycology. Contact Drs. S. and H. J. Shadomy (39). IX. VACANCIES FOR MYCOLOGY GRADUATES AS TECHNICIANS, EXPERIMENTALISTS, E,TC. 1. Indiana: Experimentalist with BS or MS degree and training in both mycology and pathology to conduct research on soil-borne, plant-pathogenic fungi and nematodes. Contact Dr. J. W. Whaley (63). 2. Louisiana: Openings for mycologists with BS or HS degree at the technician level and for advanced degree study. Contact Professor S. P. Meyers (88). 3. Oklahoma: Full-time technician, preferably with some Yicrobiology in background, to work on pathogenesis of Cryptococcus. Contact Dr. G. S. Bulmer (87). 4. Virginia: Laboratory Technician with ASCP registration and broad experience in medical microbiology and mycology desired by Drs. S. and H. J. Shadomy (39).

X. AVAILABLE GRADUATE STUDENT ASSISTANTSHIPE

1. Canada a) British Columbia: For information on one or two available assistantships in Basidiomycete genetics or physiology contact Dr. M. McClaren (18). b) Quehec: For information regarding programs leading to degrees at the msster's and doctor's levels, the stipends, and the requirements including knowledge of spoken and written French contact M. le Prof. J. E. Chevrette (14) or M. le Prof. G. M. Ola'h (14). 2. United States: East a) Maine: For further information on Research Assistantships (stipend of $3,000 per 12-month year) and Teaching Assistantships ($2,400 per 9-month year) which carry automatic waiver of tuition and fees write to Dr. G. A. McIntyre, Chairman (69). b) New York: The Gertrude S. Burlingham Scholarship with a stipend of $800 to $1,000 wiil be available in 1969 for graduate students, especially if interested in use of the herbarium, laboratory, and library at the New York Botanical Garden. Nominations or applications should be sent to the Director (57). c) North Carolina: For details concerning a Teaching Assistantship for the 1969-1970 school year, write to Dr; L. S. Olive (1). d) Vermont: Concerning an assistantship in Fungus Physiology, write to Prof. T. Sproston (89). e) Virginia: Through joint appointments in microbiology (See item f) a lin~itednumber of graduste students can be appointed at the Medical College of Virginia. Direct inquiry to Drs, H. J. or S. Shadomy, Division of Infectious Diseases (39). f) Virginia: For information on Graduate Research Assistantships with basic stipends of $2,400 to $2,800 per year plus tuition and dependency allowances, write to Prof. S. G. Bradley, Chairman, Dept. of Microbiology (39). g) West Virginia: For inforlllation regarding available Trairling Fellowships in Medical Xycology with stipends at NIH rates, contact Dr. J. M. Slack (40). 3. United States: Mid-West a) Illinois: For une-half time Tea~hingFellowships with a stipend of $2,700 for 9 months, contact Dr. D. P. Rogers (78). > ~,~ b) Missouri: For details regarding Teaching Assistantships in morphogenesis, taxonomy, genetics, or ultrastructure of fungi, write to Dr. J. Maniotis (28). c) Oklahoma: Teaching Assistantships in medical mycology and medical mjcrobiology with stipecds of $2,400 to $2,600 per year plus dependency ailowances are available through Dr. G. S. Rulmer (87). d) Texas: For information explaining available Research Assistantships and Experimentalist appointments for candidate at the Ph.D. level, write to Dr. R. I.. Storck (66).

4. ---United States: West a) California: For Teaching Assistantships during the academic year ~icha stipend of $2,700, apply to Dr. I. K. Ross (2). b) Idaho: If you are interested in a Research Assistantship of 3 years duration with a stipend uf $3,180 per year to study decays of the inland northwest, apply to Dr. A. D. Partridge (2L). C) Wyominc: Two graduate Research Assistantships in mycology should be available to begin in Sept?.r:b?r, 19i0. For details regardin,, th rr,search projects in the area of .soil microfungal ecology, toward degrees at the Xaster's level, write t:~ Dr. M,rth:i ('hrisiensen (26). XI. STLmENTS EXPECTING DOCTORATES LOOKING FOR EMPLOYMENT

1. Canada: Ontario a) G. T. COLE: "Taxonomy of hyphomycetes: an exploration of the complementary functions of developmental and mature characters."; Research interest: taxonomic implications of fungal morphogenesis and ultrastructure; Teaching com- petence: Mycology, general botany, taxonomy; May, 1969; Major Professor: W. B. Kendrick (35). b) T. R. NAG RAJ: "First contribution to a monograph of Chatara and related genera."; Research interest: Taxonomy of fungi-imperfecti; diseases of plants and insects caused by fungi; biological control of weeds and insect pests; Teaching competence: Mycology, plant pati.'ology, and fungal taxonomy; September, 1969; Major Professor: W. B. Kendrick (35). 2. United States: a) Connecticut - 8. P. SCEAFFER, JR.: I. "Physiological and developmental studies of Coprinus lagopus Fr." and 11. "Preliminary reactions in the synthesis of some Lythm alkaloids."; Research interest: Fungus pnysiology - Natural products; Teaching competence: Mycology, fungus physiology, introductory microbiology or botany; June, 1969; Major Professor: R. P. Collins (90). b) Idaho - E. R. CANFIELD: "Ecology related to decay fungi in cedar."; Research interest: Physiology and Ecology Plant-Disease organisms; Teaching competence: Forest pathology, ecology; June, 1969; Major Professor:A. D. Partridge (24) c) Kansas - V. K. SANGAR: "Electrophoretic and immunologic studies of some Trichomycetes."; Research interest: Serology; Teaching competence: Mycology, anatomy, comparative morphology; June, 1969; Major Professor R. W. Lichtwardt (91). d) Michigan - HUBERT LING: "Genetics of plasmodia1 compatibility in the true slime mold Didymim iridis."; Research interest: Mycology - Genetics and physiology of Myxomycetes; Teaching competence: General biology, botany, mycology, myxomycetes; June, 1969; Major Professor: 0'~eilR. Collins (44). e) Missouri - MRS. RAZIA MUNEERUDDIN: "Biochemical genetics of tyrosinase in Celasinospora.": Research interest: Physiology, biochemistry, genetics of fungi; Teaching competence: General mycology, fungal genetics and physiclogy; January, 1969; Major Professor: J. Maniotis (28). f) New Yxk - DO= LYON: "The morphologic, serologic and pathogeoicity studies on the 'Black Yeasts'."; Research interest: The imperfect fungi; Teaching competence: General botany, mycology; June, 1968(?); Major Frofessor: C.J.K. Wang (92). g) New ~okk- E. C. SETLIFF: "Biology of Poria vinctc (Berk.) Cooke.": Research interest: Cytology, serology, sexuality, taxonomy of homothallic polypores; Teaching competence: Mycology, forest pathology; June, 1969; Major Professor: J. L. Lowe (92). h) New York - W. A. StlERWOOD: "Some,physiological and genetical aspects of hcterothallism in the water mold ~Cctpdh:~.~."; Research interest; Sexuality in the water molds (Dictyuchus rnonosporus); Teaching competence: Mycology, morphology of non-vascular plants, general botany, general biology; September, 1969; Major Professor: J. N. Couch (1). (Address for W. A. Sherwood (57)). i) North Carolina - C. E. BLAND: "Structure and development in some genera of the Actinoplanaceae (Actinomycetales)."; Research interest: Fine structure of lower organisms (mycology); Teaching competence: Mycology, biology, botany, zoology; December, 1968; Major Professor: J. N. Couch (1). j) North Carolina - K. L. HOWARD: "Taxor.omy and morphology of some aquatic fungi of Iceland."; Research interest: ultra- structure of aquatic fungi; Teaching competence: mycology, genetics; Fall, 1469; Major Frofessor: T.W. Johnson, Jr. (41). k) Pennsylvania J. J. DEPLOLY: "Responses of thermophilic fungi and actinomycetes to low 0 tensions."; Research interest - 2 Experimental mycology, fungal physiology; Teaching competence: General biorogy, general botany, mycology, fungal physiology; June, 1969; Major Professor: C. L. Fergus (8). 1) South Carolina - 8. F. CANTRELL: "Comparative physiology and biocliemistry of Pythiuni irreigutare and Pythium vazans."; Research interest: Fungal physiology and biochemistry; Teachlng competence: Bacteriology, mycology (General and Medical), microbiaJ physiology; August, 1969; Major Professor: W. M. Dowler (93). a) Texas - V. D. VILLA: "Nucleic acid synthesis in mitochondria of Micor i-o.uzii."; Research interest: Morphogenesis; Teachiug competence: Microbiology; June, i969. Major Professor: K. L. Storck (66). XII. GRADUATES AT BACHELOR'S OR MASTER'S LEVEL FOR EMPLOYMENT AS TECHNICIANS, EXPERIMENTALISTS, ETC.

1. Dr. S. J. Hasija (54) requests contacts for employment after completion of post doctorate studies (See H 1-81. 2. Miss Carol A. Shearer (94) requests inquiries regarding such employment. 3. Mr. C. Betancourt (32) and Dr. A. D. Partridge (24) solicit inquiries about technical employment for candidates below the Ph.D. level.

j(. i!ELP1 -HELP! - - - .-HELP! * The Foray Recorder, Wm. Bridge Cooke (95). would appreciate lists of species from all who have not yet turned them in for the following MSA Forays: Illinois, 1965 Maryland, 1966 Texas, 1967 Ohio, 1968

Dr. S. P. Meyers (88) has a request from Nina Ya. Artemchuk, Lab. Benthoc. Inst. Oceanology, Academy of Science, 1, Sadovaya, Lublino, Y-387, Moscow, USSR, for reprints of papers in marine mycology to support her research on the mycology of the Black, White, and Barents Seas. Cooperation from members will be appreciated. H. PERSONAL INFORM4TION

I. MYCOLOGISTS WITH NEW AFFILIATIONS 1. Robert W. Tuveson from the University of Chicago became Associate Professor of Botany, UniV. of Illinois, September 1,1968. 2. Dr. J. S. Furtado, Mycologist, is on leave for 2 years from the Instituto de Botanica, Sao Paulo, Brazil, as Research Associate with Dr. L. S. Olive at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, (See also Item H 11-3). 3. Dr. Johnson Ekundayo (Univ. of Lagos, Nigeria) has joined the Prairie Regional Laboratory in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, as a Post-Doctorate Fellow. 4. C. Betancourt (M.S.) has joined the Dept. of Biology, College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts in the University of Yuerto Rico at Mayaguez. 5. Dr. D. Griffin, formerly of the Botany Dept., University of Iowa, is now Mycologist in the Department of Forest Botany b Pathology, State University College of Forestry at Syracuse, N. Y. 6. Dr. R. K. Gupta formerly of the Dept. of Biochemistry and Microbiology, College of Agriculture and Environmental Science, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J., has joined the Dept. of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, Calif., as Lecturer for the 1968-69 academic year. 7. Mr. T. R. Nag Raj, formerly of the Cornonwealth Institute of Biological Control, Indian Station, Bangalore, is now carry- ing out a revision of Chad and allied genera with Dr. W. B. Kendrick at the University of Waterloo, in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. 8. Dr. S. K. Hasija has joined F. T. Wolf at Vanderbilt University for post-doctorate studies (See G XII-1). 9. Dr. Rolf Singer has resigned his position of Professor in the Dept. of Biology, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Univ. of Buenos Aires, and has returned to the United States. 10. R. L. Arteman has left the Dept. of Plant Pathology, University of Illinois, and gone to Wisconsin State University, at Superior. 11. B. M. Berkson has also departed moving to Rutgers - The State University of New Jersey. 12. Mrs. Nina Dabrowa obtained the Ph.D. degree from the Dept. of Medical Microbiology and Immunology of the School of Medicine at UCLA in June, 1968, and has taken a position with the Dermatology group in the same School. 13. J. Garcia of the same department (See item 12) obtained the Ph.D. degree in August, 1968, and is now on a Post-Doctoral Fellowship with the California State Department of Health at Berkeley. 11. TRAVELING MYCOUIGISTS

K. Dumont of the Dept. Plant Pathology, Cornell University, .has recently returned from a summer collecting trip to Venezuela, Brazil, Bolivia, and Colombia. Drs. S. and H. J. Shadomy, Dept. Microbiology, ?ledical College of Virginia, will be attending the 1969 meeting of the British Society for Mycopathology in Dublin. Results from their recent studies with filamentous forms of C. tIeof~rFIct?I~ and with several new antifungal agents will be presented. Dr.. J. S. Furtado of the Instituto de Botanica in Sao Paulo, Brazil, will work for 2 years with Dr. L. S. Olive in the Dept. of Botany, Univ. cf 6~rthCarolina, Chapel Hill. (See also Item H 1-2). Dr. C. 8. Blazquez, who is employed at the South Florida Field Laboratory in Imm.okalee, traveled in Puerto RicO and Jamaica during the first week of October, 1968, and visited Dr. P. Hunt, Dept. Botany, University of the West Indies. Dr. K. Rasija from the Univ. of iabalpur, India, is dcing Post-Doctoral work with F. T. Wolf at Vanderbilt University this year. Dr. R. Heim. Professor at the Museum of Natural History in Paris and President of the Singer-Polignac Foundation, lectured on conservation of nature and little known aspects of mycology from September 16, through October 2, 1968, under auspices of the Department de Phytotechnic, Faculte d'agriculture, Universite Laval, Quebec, P.Q.,Canada. Dr. W. C. Denison, Oregon State University, visited the Mycological Herbarium of the Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biologicas of the Instituto Politecnico Nacional in Mexico, D.F. Mexico, in order tv review Pezisales and found several interesting specimens during August, 1968. Dr. J. T. Bonner of Princeton University presented two seminars on "Chemical ecology at the cellular level" on Sept. 23 and 24, and Dr. J. R. Raper of Harvard University, two seminars on "Chemical ecology among the lower plants" on Sept. 30 and Oct. 1, at State University College of Forestry, Syracuse, New York. Dr. S. Lacy of the Banana Board in Kingston. Jamaica, visited th~South Florida Field Laboratory in Immohlee to discuss resistance to Fusarim wilt in edible bananas. Prof., P. Neerqaard of Copenhagen, Denmark, discussed seed pathology with K. B. Deshpande at Marathwada University in Aurangabad, India. Dr. R. Braun of the'swiss Institute for Experimental Research on Cancer discussed nucleic acid replication in slime molds with I. K. Ross on September 20 and 21 in the Dept. Biological Sciences, University of California, at Santa Barbara.

111. AWARDS AND REWARDS TO MYCOLOGISTS 1. Dr. S. K. Hasija has been promoted to Assistant Professor at the University of Jabalpur in India. 2. Drs. S. Shadomy, H. J. Shadomy, and J. P. Utz have been given joint appointments as Assistant Professors of Micro- biology and Professor of Microbiology respectively, in the Department of Microbiology, Medical College of Virginia. 3. Dr. Elizabeth O'Hern has been appointed Program Administrator for Microbiology in the Research Training Grants Branch of the National Institute of General Medical Science of NIB in Bethesda, Maryland. 4. R. W. Davidson of Colorado State University was awarded an honorary DSc degree by his alma mater, Ottawa University, at Ottawa, Kansas, in June, 1968. 5. The "Joao Ribeiro Award" of the Brazilian Academy of Letters was presented to Dr. 0. Fidalgo for compilation of the Dicionario Micologico, which was co-authored by Mrs. Pfarie E. P. K. Fidalgo. 6. The North American Mycological Association (Portsmouth, Ohio) award for "Contributions to Amateur Mycology" for 1968 went to Dr. L. J. Tanghe of Rochester, New York, in recognition of his work with the Rochester Fungophiles and for teaching adult classes in mycology. 7. Dr. H. Seki was awarded both the Okada Prize of the Oceanographical Society of Japan (1966) and a Postdoctorate Fellowship of the National Research Council of Canada (1967-(?I). 8. Dr. G. Simmons, a Past President of MSA and Head of the Mycology Group, PRL, U.S. Army Natick Laboratories in Natick, Mass., has been awarded the Annual Secretary of the Army's Research and Study Fellowship and will spend 6 months in southeast Asia, visiting laboratories in Japan, Thailand, Malaysia, Australia, and India, and 6 months at the Commonwealth Mycological Institute, Kew, England. He will be collecting and studying tropical microfungi with special emphasis on Atternria, Curvutaria, Stemphytium, and Utocludim species. 9. Prof. F. K. Sparrow received the Merit Award of the Botanical Society of America in 1968 and has become the Director of the University of Michigan Biological Station on Douglas Lake. 10. N. G. Santacroce of the Plant Importations Branch, USDA, in Hoboken, N. J., has received three decorations for contribu- tions to the flower bulb industry: Officer in the Order of Orange Nassau from the government of The Netherlands, Nicolaas Dames Medal from the Netherlands Professional and Scientific Groups, and Officer in the Order of the Crown from the government of Belgium.

11. Dr. C. H. Blazquez (See Item 11-4) received an award from the Florida State Horticultural Society for the best paper of 1967 on influence of lime on hsariwn wilt of watermelons, co-authored by P. H. Everett. 12. Or. S. P. Meyers has been elevated to rank of Professor at Louisiana State University; along with Dr. D. G. Ahearn of Georgia State College participated in the Miner Center Community of Scholars at Chazy, New York; and investigated yeasts and molds of Lake Champlain in cooperation with W. Cook of the University College of Arts and Sciences at Plattsburgh, New York.

IV. INVITATIONAL PAPERS AND LECTURES BY MYCOLOGISTS

1. S. K. Dutta of Boward University in Washington, D. C., lectured on "Studies on Neurospora Chromatin" in Calcutta, India, and Tokyo, Japan, and on "Studies on Nucleic Acid Interactions: Molecular Approaches in Differentiation of Fungi" in Chapel Hill, Calcutta, New Delhi, Geneva, and Los Angeles during August, 1968. 2. R. P. Korf of Cornell University presented a seminar paper entitled "The Riddle of the Stroma and Other Unsolved Discomycete Problems" at the University of Massachusetts on October 31. 3. E. S. Beneke of Michigan State University taught a course in medical mycology during July, 1968, at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia in Bogota for physicians, veterinarians, and microbiologists under auspices of FAO, United Nations. 4. L. S. Olive of the University of North Carclina presented two papers by Kitani and Olive on gene conversion in Sordaria at the 12th International Congress of Genetics in Tokyo in August, and served as co-chairman of the session on gene structure in microorganisms. 5. T. Sproston, University of Vermont, presented a lecture on "The Biochemistry of Spore Production" to a Plant Pathology and Plant Physiology seminar at Cornell University. 6. Mrs. Maria E.P.K. Fidalgo and Dr. 0. Fidalgo presented papers entitled "Morphology and Taxonomy of Fungi" and "Phytopathology and Fungi" respectively before the Institute of Tropical Medicine at Sao Paulo, Brazil, in October, 1968 7. R. S. Smith of the Forest Products Laboratory in Vancouver presented a paper, "Wood Preservative Toxicity using Wood Weight Loss and Fungal Respiration Methods," before the Forest Products Research Society in Washington, D. C., and visited the Beltsville Forest Disease Laboratory at Laurel, Maryland, during June. 8. K. G. Mukerji of the University of Delhi delivered a general lecture on "India and Mycology" at the Commonwealth Mycological Institute, Kew, England, on February 22, 1968. 9. 0. H. Howard of UCLA presented an invitation lecture on Coccidioidomycoses before the staff of the Los Angeles County Museum, October 22, 1968. 10. F. E. Swatek, California State College at Long Beach, presented invitational papers entitled "Ecology of Coccidioides immitis," and "The Isolation and Identification of Sccidioides immitis" at the Eighth International Congresses of Tropical Medicine and Malaria, Teheran, Iran, September 7-15, 1968. 11. A. D. Partridge of the University of Idaho presented a paper, "Inland Rots and Tommyrots," before the Western Inter- national Forest Disease Work Conference on October 27, in Couer d'Alene. 12. W. M. Hess of Brigham Young University, in cooperation with D. L. Stocks, demonstrated fine structure of spores before the Cell Biology Society in Boston, November 11-13, 1968. 13. I. K. Ross, University of California at Santa Barbara has presented two papers: "Abnormal cell behavior in slime molds" at the first "Physarum" Conference, PlcArdle Institute for Cancer Research, Madison, Wisc., September 11, and "Cell membranes and cell interactions in slime molds" at Western Regional Developmental Biology Conference, San Fernando Valley State College, California, on October 23, 1968. 14. The First International Congress of Plant Pathology in London during July was attended by mycologists, who presented papers, including the following: a) Results of research cooperative with R.J.W. Byrde and A. H. Fielding by F. D. Calonge of Madrid, Spain; b) P. Krogh of Copenhagen, Derunark, "The Pathology of Mycotoxicoses;" C) K. B. Deshpande of Aurangabad, India, "Aerobiological Studies of a Groundnut Field."

V. RETIREMENTS, ILLNESSES, DEATHS OF MSA MEMBERS 1. L. Wallace Miller, Dean of the School of Natural Sciences at Chico State College in Chico, Calif., will retire as of September 1, 1969. 2. G. B. Walker has been confined to a nursing home in Lincoln, Nebr., for the past 2 years...... Since publication of Volume XIX, Nu. 1, Newsletter in June, 1968, the following members of the Mycological Society of Amcrica have been reported deceased or dsta pertir1el:t to previous reports have beer1 received.

DCII Baker Crex: A Charter ?!e?ber, an .July SO, 196e, at age 65 in Florida, where he was Professor of Biology at .Tacksi~nvilie Vniversity, after a long illness. Ha had received degrees from Hiami Uriiversity of Ohio, State Unlvrrsity of Iowa, and Harvard an2 had taught at Iowa. Cornell, Duke, H.lrvard, and Rarlsas State. ile had also Seen a plant pati~oloqistfor the Illinois fjatural tiistory Survey, the Florida Agrlcu:tural Experiment Station, and the Florida Srate Plant Board. Catherine G. Duncan: A member since ;anuary, 1967, on August 24, 1968, at age 60 in >ladison, Wisconsin, where she was Prirccipnl Pathologist, Seccion of Wood Fungi and Insect Research, Forest Producrs La'Jor.atory. Forest. Service, USDA, nrd specialized in tils microbiologicdl degradation of wood. A detailed biography will appear in MYCOLOGIA durfng 1969.

-A -~"K!i_DA- .Jean 2. Foley (Mrs. K. R. Greider): member since December, 1951; resident it, Davis, C.alifornia; deceased 1965. .John A. Gamel: a Charter Member; on Associate since 1958; resident in Cleveland, Ohio; deceased 1967. Leslie N. Goodding: a Charter Menber; an Associate since 1954; residen~in St. David, Arizona; deceased 1968. Irene Rollman: member since January, 1964; associated with lepartmerlt of Infectious Diseases of Smith, Kline, and Frer~ci~ Laboratories in Philadelphia, E'ennsylvania; deceassd 1967. --Dora Weirrtraub: member since October, 1949; associated with South African Institute for Hedical Re-farch in Johannesburg; deceased in August, 1967......

VI. MATCHES AND HATCHES 1. Belen Patricia Rogers, daughter of D. P. Rogers, was married to Lieut. Keith A. Keyt, (an entomologist) on July 14, 1968. 2. Kenneth E. Conway of the University of Florida reports his marriage to Cynthia A. Gary of Cyracuse, N. Y., on June '22, 1968. 3. Frcm the'university of Oregon George C. Carroll announces that he was married to Fanny Fromageot in Curlu. France, on August 30. 4. Dr. Shirley L. Brown of Clifton Gardens in New South Wales, Australia, requests change of last name coincident with her marriage to Allan MacPherson Campbell. 5. Dr. F. D. Calonge reports from Madrid that their first child, Margarita, was born on February 13, 1967, and that their second, whlch is due soon, will be a boy. 6. Dr. and Mrs. Larry F. Grand announce birth of a son, Stephen Andrew, on Novemt;er 11, 1968. 7. From Pennsylvania comes the news that Dr. Anton R. Slysh is father of a new daughter, Michelle Andrea. 8. A budding medical mycologist, Judith Miriam, was born on October 23, 1968, to Moses and Irene Weitzrnan. Mother and daughter cells are doing fine. 9. Nunzio G. Santacroce from New Jersey proudly announces birth of a grandson, Shawn, born to his son, George, and wife on September 5.

I. CORRESPONDENT ADDRESSES (1) Dept. of Botany. University of North Carolina. Chapel Hill, N.C. 27514 (2) Dept. Biological Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara, Calif. 93106 (3) Dept. of Botany, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich. 48104 (4) Dept. of Biology, State University College, New Paltz, N. Y. 12561 (5) Dept. Plant Pathology, Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. 14850 (6) Dept. of Biology, University of Victoria, Victoria, B. C., Canada (7) Dept. of Botany, Howard University. Washington, D. C. 20001 (8) Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pa. 16802 (9) Dept. of Botany, University of Delhi, Delhi 7, India (10) Biological Station, Fisheries Research Board of Canada, Nanaimo, B. C., Canada (11) Mycological Herbarium, Washington State Enivrrsity, Pullman, Wash. 99163 (12) 7617 N. Bell Road, Yilwaukee, Wisc. 57217 (13) Dept. Plant Pathology h Forestry, Korth Carolina State Dciversity, Raleigh, N. C. 27607 (14) Faculte d'Agrlculture, L'niversite Laval, Cite ilniversitaire, Ste-Fay, Quebec, 10, P.Q., Canads (15) 506 West Burnside Road, Victorla, B. C., Canada (16) Biology Department, Shippensburg State College, Shippensburg, Pa. 17257 (17) Drpt. Botany 6 Plant Pathology, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, Colo. 80521 (18) Biosciences, Simon Frazer University, Burnaby 2; B. C., Canada (19) South Florida Field Laboratory, P.O. aox 973, Imohlee, Fla., 33934 (20) Instituto Botanico, "A. J. Cavanilles", Plaza de Murillo 2, Madrid 14, Spain (21) Biology Department, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colo. 80302 (22) Dtpt. of Biology, Eastern Washington State College, Cheney, Wash. 99004 (27) Fore~tResearch laboratory, Box 490, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Carkada College of Forestry, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho 83843 Forest Products Laboratory, 6620 N.W. Marine Drive., Vancouver 8, B. C. Canada Dept. of Botany, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming 82070 Faculty Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, University of Buenos Aires, Moreno 963. Buenos Aires, Argentina Department of Botany, Washington University, St. Louis, Mo. 63130 Dept. of Botany, University of Gorakhpur, Gorakhpur, U. P. India Dept. of Biology, Adelphi University. Garden City, N. Y. 11530 Dept. of Biology, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pa. 17325 College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, Dept. of Biology, Univ. of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez. Puerto Rico 00708 Dept. Bacteriology h Hygiene, The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural College. Copenhagen V, Denmark Dept. of Botany, Marathwada University, Aurangabad, India Dept. of Biology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Onterio, Canada Towson State College, Towson, Md. 21204 Dept. of Biology, State College, Worcester. Mass. Institute of Marine Sciences, University of North Carolina, Morehead City, N. C. 28557 Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, Va. 23219 Dept. Microbiology, University of West Virginia Medical School, Morgantown, W. Va. 26506 Dept. of Botany, Duke University, Durham, N. C. 27706 Dept. Plant Pathology, Institute of Agriculture, St. Paul, Minn. 55101 Dept. of Medical Microbiology h Immunology, School of Medicine, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, Calif. 90024 Dept. Biology, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 48202 Box 10037, Lamar Station, Beaumont, Texas 77705 Forest Ecology Institute, % Forest Products Laboratory, Montreal Road, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Dept. of Botany, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, U.K. Dept. Medical Biomorphics, National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan Dept. of Botany, University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712 Instituto de Botanica, Caixa Postal - 4005, Sao Paulo, Brazil Dept. of Botany, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52240 Dept. of Plant Pathology, University of Illinois, Urbana, 111. 61801 Dept. of Botany, University of Florida, Gainesville, Fla. 32601 Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn. 37203

Texas A 6 M University, College Station, Texas 77843 Humble Oil and Refining Co., P.O. Box 2180, Houston, Texas 77001 The New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, N. Y. 10458 Mycology Investigations, Crops Research Division, Plant Industry Station, Beltsville, Md. 20705 Georgia State College, 33 Gilmer Street, S. E., Atlanta, Ga. 30303 Dept. of Biology, Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, Mich. 49001 Dept. of Botany, University of California, Davis, Calif. 95616 Laboratorio de Micologia, Dept. de Botanica, Escuela Nacinnal de Ciencias Biologicas, Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Apartado 42-186, Mexico 17, D.F., Mexico Greenfield Laboratories, Eli Lilly and Co., P.O. Box 708, Greenfield, Ind. 46140 Biology Department, University of Oregon, Eugene, Ore. 97403 Dept. of Biology, Fresno State College, Fresno, Calif. 93726 Dept. of Biology, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77001 Dept. Biological Science, Michigan Technical Unhersity, Houghton, Mich. 49931 Forestry Sciences Laboratory, USDA, FS, Box 887, Corvallis, Ore. 97330

Dept. Botany 6 Plant Pathology, University of Maine, Orono, Maine 04473 159 Rue des AtrCbates, Bruxelles 4, Belgium Natural Resources Building, Illinois Natural History Survey, Urbana, Ill. 61801 National Museum of Canada, Museum of Natural Science, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Small Fruit Investigations, Crops Research Division, Plant Industry Station, Beltsville, Md. 20705 Dept. Biology, Tulane University, 6823 St. Charles Avenue, New Orleans, La. 70118 Casilla 16033, Correo 11, Santiago, Chile Blessed Sacrament Fathers, Pleasant Street, Barre, Mass. 01005 Camera M. D. Studios, Inc., 122 East 76th Street, New York, N. Y. 10021 Dept. of Botany, University of Illinois, Urbana, Ill. 61801 Dept. Community Medicine, University of Vermont. 25 Colchester Ave., Burlington. Vt. 05401 1635 Edro Court, East Meadow, N. Y. 11554 Medical Research Programs, V. A. Hospital. Long Beach, Calif. 90801 1534 Hawthorn Court,.Ames, Iowa 50010 Beltsville Forest Disease Laboratory, FS, USDA, Box 263, RD 2, Laurel, Md. 20810 Canada Dept. of Forestry, 10169 - 104th Street, Edmonton, Alta. Canada Biological Sciences, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Ill. 60115 Antibiotic Development Laboratories. Eli Lilly 6 Co., Indianapolis, Ind. 46206 Dept. Microbiology, University of Oklahoma Medical School, Oklahoma City, Okla. 73104 Dept. Food Science 6 Technology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, La. 70803 Dept. Botany, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vt. 05401 Dept. of Biology. University of Connecticut, Storrs, Conn.'06268 Dept. of Botany, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kans. 66044 Dept. Forest Botany 6 Pathology, State University College of Forestry, Syracuse, N. Y. 13210 Dept. of Botany and Microbiology, Clemson University, Clemson, S. C. 29631 2613 Kirkwood Place. Hyattsville. Md. 20782 1135 Wilshire Court. Cincinnati, Ohio 45230

J. MYCOLOGICAL MISCELLANT The MSA was represented at the inauguration ceremonies for Milligan Maces Nance, Jr., as president of South Carolina State College in Orangeburg, South Carolina, on Nov. 27, 1968, by Dr. G. T. Cowley, Assoc. Prof. of Biology at the University of South Carolina. New Botanical Publication -- Botanical research articles of unusual length (50-150 ms. pages) will be considered for publication in Tulane Studies in Zoology and Botany (formerly Tulane Studies in Zoology). Shorter papers will also be considered. This Journal is published by the Graduate School and has an average circulation of 1000 copies. It is sent in exchange to university libraries and research centers throughout the world. Articles which are submitted will be promptly reviewed and edited. For further information write: Prof. G. E. Gunning (Editor) or Prof. A. L. Welden (Assoc. Editor), Dept. Biology, Tulane University, New Orleans, La., 70118. The 1968 North American Mycological Association Foray at Priest Lake, Idaho, on September 27-29, 1968, listed 395 species of fungi collected by the 267 members present. Dr. A. H. Smith assisted by Dr. Ronald Petersen served as taxonomist. Mr. Walter Litten of Rochester, N. Y., acted as recorder. The foray was hosted by the Spokane (Washington) Mushroom Club. The N.A.M.A. believes this foray may have collected the largest number of fungi ever collected in one area and on a single week-end. Any old records that approach or exceed this number would be interesting. The National Herbarium of Canada (of the National Museums of Canada, Museum of Natural Sciences) has recently moved to new quarters within Ottawa. The address will remain the same, however. The Herbarium houses a large lichen collection (24,000 specimens) but no non-lichenized fungi. Excellent facilities are available for visiting scientists at the new building. Some members suggested that a very successful and contributory mycological effort be noted. The SYMPOSIUM ON THE EVOLUTION of the HIGHER BASIDIOMYCETES was sponsored by The National Science Foundation; cornemorated the 80th birthyear of Dr. L. R. Hesler. Professor Emeritus of Botany; and took place at Dr. Hesler's institution, the University of Tennessee in Knoxville between August 5 and 10, 1968. Some 20 speakers from seven countries presented papers, which discussed morphological, cytological, genetic, anatomic, cultural, and chemical approaches to the taxonomy and identificatinn of Homobasidiomycetes. The formal presentations were followed by lively discussions during the adequate time allotted. Notes of gratitude are extended to Dr. R. H. Petersen for organization and conduction of the Symposium. Information regarding publication of the proceedings may be obtained from him at the Department of Botany.

I. SOME QUESTIONS, REQUESTS, AND ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM MEMBERS 1. What is a useful reference to a publication with which I will be able to identify atmospheric fungal spores? Are there any unpublished sets of photomicrographs being circulated? (W. C. Elsik (56)) 2. Would one or more mycologists identify or confirm my identification of some saprophytic fungi which were isolated from human specimens and which the State reference laboratory would not? (Mrs. Barbara Taylor (80)) 3. Would someone check the identity of two isolates (hyaline Fungi Imperfecti) for me? (L. A. Roure (32)) 4. The University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee has given J. W. Baxter a fall semester leave to complete a taxonomic revision of the genus Ravenetia. 5. F. K. Sparrow, H. Whisler, and C. Anastasiou gave the marine mycology course at the Friday Harbor Laboratories during the summer of 1968. 6. N. G. Santacroce has been reassigned to Head, Postentry Quarantine, Plant Quarantine Division, ARS, USDA, from the position as Head, Foreign Site Inspection. 7. Reprint available (concerned with photography of fungi): Weiss, C. H. Fungi Phytography: Ultraviolet fluorescent studies. Jour. of the Biological Photographic Assn., Vol. 36, Nov. 1968. Write Katherine Hain, M.D., Director of Medical Services, Schering Labs, Union, N. J. 8. New Book: Gray. W. D., and C. J. Alexopoulos. Biology of the Myxomycetes. 288 pp. The Ronald Press Company, New York. / Publication date: December, 1968. Price: $12.00. 11. TO THE THOUGHTFUL: Many mycologists from time to time have hopefully, courageously, optimistically, hopelessly, pessimistically, or on some combination thereof submitted suggestions to improve the MSA Newsletter. Some have been suggested by two or more respondents or seem worthy of consideration. Why don't you type out those that appeal (favorably only, please) on a separate sheet and mail to the Editor, perhaps along with the spring inquiry? 1. Do you have one or more PRELIMINARY KEYS THAT NEED PRACTICAL TESTING or "CLASS USE" keys that others might use? 2. Do you have a PERSONAL HERBARIUM from which specimens could be borrowed? If so, list the family(ies) or genus(era). 3. Would you TRANSLATE DIAGNOSES of new taxa into LATIN? 4. A suggestion has been made that an outlet be provided for informal comunication of EXPERIMENTS and/or PROCEDURES THAT FAIL to solve a particular problem.