Mycological Society of America December, 1969 Vo1. XX, No. 2

Dept. of Plant Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington 99163
University Herbarium, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104
Dept. of Botany, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52240
Dept. of Botany, 3uke University, Durham, N. C. 27706
Dept. of Botany, University of California, Davis, California 95616
Dept. of Soil Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, N. C. 27607
7951 - 91st Avenue, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
6450 S.W. Richey Lane, Portland, Oregon
Dept. of Biology, Simmons College, 300 The Fenway, Boston, Mass. 01945
852 Stone Road, Rochester, New York 14616
J. MYCOLOGICAL MISCELLANY
Wm. Bridge Cooke (69) needs lists of the fungi collected on the Texas and Ohio Forays to complete
the lists for publication.
Dr. Cooke also reports that free reprints will not be available for distribution of the
"Bibliography of Histoplasmosis" and "The Families Proposed for Fungi", published or to be published
shortly. Those wishing copies must contact the publishers.
Dr. George Agrios' (11) book, "Plant ~atholo~~", was published by Academic Press during 1969.
Dr. Theodore P. Gannatz reports that he is temporarily out-of-action at Clark University while serving
2 years in the army at Dugway Proving Grounds in Utah.
Dr. Martha D. Berliner (99) seeks simple techniques to induce ascospore formation in yeasts for
class-room demonstration.
Prof. Marcel V. Locquin (50) reports that the new "Centre de Recherches Mycologiques" at U.A.E. will
pursue two main lines, Taxonomy of Fungi and Applied Mycology and that his new book, "Genera of
Fungi: De Taxia Fungorum" will contain 4860 genera of Myxomycetes, Deuteromycetes, and Metamycetes
arranged in a natural classification and will be available in 1970.
J.H.B. Garner, on leave from the Dept. of Biology at East Tennessee State Univ. has been appointed
as a Research Associate in the Dept. of Plant Pathology, North Carolina State Univ. His work on
a possible association between natural gas in the soil atmosphere and death of various trees and
woody ornamentals in Wilmington, N. C., is supported under a cooperative agreement between NCSU
and the National Air Pollution Control Administration and will be pursued in cooperation with
Drs. W. W. Heck, L. F. Grand, and E. B. Cowling.
Dr. L. R. Kneebone of The Pennsylvania State Univ. is serving his fourth consecutive 3-year term as
a Member of the International Commission on Mushroom Science representing North, Central, and
South America and has been invited by the Organizing Committee of the United Kingdom to preside
over the sessions dealing with composting and nutrition at the VIII International Congress of
Mushroom Science to be held in London September 7-15, 1971.
L. J. Tanghe (loo), a retired chemist with a long-term interest in higher fungi, has just given a
short course in field mushroom identification sponsored by the Rochester Museum and Science Center,
is active in NAMA, studies and photographs species, and responds to calls from the Poison Control
Center at Strong Memorial Hospital.
The positions of Mycologist and Algologist (Research Microbiologists) have been abolished in the
Advanced Waste Treatment Research Laboratory, Robert A. Taft Water Research Laboratory, USDI, effective
Nov. 1, 1969, with the retirement of the incumbents, Wm. Bridge Cooke and C. Mervin Palmer.
The 15th Annual Peck Foray was held in the Adirondacks at Warrensburg, N.Y., at the State University
of Forestry camp on Sept. 26-28. Mycologists of the northeast have joined in an annual foray for
the past 15 years. Major responsibility for organization has fallen on Prof. J.L. Lowe, Syracuse
Univ., who 10 years ago suggested the name, Annual Charles Horton Peck Mycological Foray, after the
eminent New York mycologist and State botanist. The majority of the forays have been held in New
York State with several in Ontario. Participants have come from Quebec, New England, and Pennsylvania.
The starting nucleus of 20 has grown to an average of 50. The foray normally begins
Friday evening and continues through Sunday morning. Most have been held in autumn with a few in
late spring. Arrangements for the 1970 Foray will be made by R. P. Korf (9), and interested
mycologists not now on the Peck Foray mailing list should contact him. Amateurs and professionals
are most welcome.