0 - Mycological Society of America

5- 9 WORKSHOP ON PENICILLIUM IDENTIFICATION: John Pitt, Maren Klich and Dick Hanlin
will conduct a hands-on workshop at the University of Georgia., Athens, GA, during
the week before the MSA meeting in Gainesville, FL. More than 60 common species
wi 11 be examined in culture, including representatives of Eupenici 11 ium and
Tal aromyces. Is01 ation and maintenance, identification procedures and taxonomic
schemes wi 11 a1 so be discussed. Further information and registration forms may
be obtained from Maren Klich.
10-11 MYCOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA ANNUAL FORAY, Gainesville, Florida. See General
Announcements.
11-15 MYCOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA ANNUAL MEETING, Gainesvi 1 le, Florida. See General
Announcements.
15-21 I X EUROPEAN MYCOLOGICAL CONGRESS (consisting of lectures, excursions, and laboratory
work) will be held in Oslo, Norway. Preliminary registration forms (not binding;
incl . paper titles) must be received before Apri 1 1 , 1985 by Anna-El ise Torkelsen,
Botanical Garden and Museum, Trondheimsvn 236, N-Oslo 5, Norway.
23-24 The University of Columbia, Vancouver, Canada wi 11 be the site of a meeting en-
titled LIGNIN BIODEGRADATION-1985. Titles and abstracts of papers are due by
March 1, 1985. For more information, write to: Lignin Biodegradation-1985, c/o
Dr. Ian Reid, Plant Biotechnical Institute, National Research Council, Saskatoon,
Saskatchewan, Canada S7N OW9.
? The NORTHEAST MYCOLOGICAL SOCIETIES FORAY wil be held in Oneota, New York. For
more information, contact Ron Trial, 98 Pembroke Street, Boston, MA 02118.
September 1985
4- 11 The BRITISH MYCOLOGICAL SOCIETY AUTUMN FORAY will headquarter at Chester College,
Chester. Contact David W. Minter (see April 1986 below for address) or Bruce Ing,
Chester College, Cheyney Road, Chester, CHI 4BJ, England.
April 1986
7- 10 The BRITISH MYCOLOGICAL SOCIETY ANNUAL MEETING will be held at the University of
Bristol. Their general topic will be "Fungi and Evolution." Write David. W.
Minter, Commonwealth Mycological Institute, Ferry Lane, Kew, Surrey, England to
learn more.
Whence come these fleshy fungi that we see?
Whence Nushroom, Toadstool and the rank Stinkhorn,
A1 1 the mycel i al horde?
For these have I but lately seen,
Down where the river's mists hang later in the day.
--Ezra Pound