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TRAVELS AND VISITS
GREGOR YEATES of the Soi 1 Bureau, New Zealand, visited the lab of Mike A1 len at Utah State
University in July, 1984 as part of a study on the microbiology of disturbed ecosystem.
Visitors to the Department of Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota included GARY LEATHUM
in May 1984 and ALEX SHIGO in October 1984.
GUSTAVO A. ESCOBAR visited the New York Botanical Garden during May and June (and spent 4
days during that period at the Farlow Herbarium) to work on Neotropical Hymenochaete, in
preparation for the future monograph for Flora Neotropica.
Visitors to the New York Botanical Garden in 1984 included: T. AHTI, G. BILLS (Burlingham
Fellow), G. CHAMURIS (Burlingham Fellow), V. COTTER, M. DIBBEN, R. DIRIG, G. ESCOBAR,
M. GILLIAM-DAVIES, G. KAYE, J. KOHLMEYER, J. LOWE, J. MCCAIN, G. MUELLER, R. PEABODY,
Dm PFISTER, K. RODRIGUES, A. ROSSMAN, L. RYVARDEN, C. SCHMITT, G. SAMUELS, R. WATLING,
N. WEBER.
Collecting Clavariadelphus and anotating herbarium specimens were the goals of ANDREW S.
METHVEN who visited W. J. Sundberg's laboratory at Southern I1 1 inois University at
Carbondale on November 6-9, 1984.
GREG WRIGHT recently spent time in Florida collecting and discussing various matters mycol-
ogical with S. L. Peele.
Visitors to Joe Amrnirati Is lab at the University of Washington this past year were: NILS
FRIES, Uppsala, Sweden; JACK GIBSON, University of Florida; FRANCOLI LE TACON and
FRANCIS MARTIN, Sei champs, France; GIOVANNI PACIONI , L' Aqui 1 a, Italy ; RONALD PETERSEN
and ANDREW METHVEN, University of Tennessee; and BRAD THOMPSON, Humboldt State Univ.
After attending the 6th NACOM at Bend, Oregon in June with post doc Greg Mueller and students
Steve Rehner and Luhsi Shih, JOE AMMIRATI carried out field work in Northern California.
GREGORY MUELLER spent 6 weeks collecting in Michigan and southern Ontario this past sumer,
and several weeks this fall with Harry D. Thiers in the San Francisco area.
Professor HIROYUKI OHARA, eminent mycologist from Kyoto, Japan, will be doing research on
Microbiology of Matsutake at David R. Hosford's lab at Central Washington University
from spring 1985 to spring 1986.
ORSON K. MILLER JR. attended the meeting of the 2nd International Society of Arctic Mycology,
Ftan, Switzerland, from August 26 to September 2.
CARIN DACKMAN, Dept. of Microbial Ecology, University of Lund, Sweden, and PARVIZ JATALA,
International Potato Center, Lima, Peru, visited Gareth Morgan-Jones at Auburn University
during August and November respectively to consult concerning research on biological
control of phytonematodes by soi 1 Hyphomycetes.
CAROL ANN SHEARER has completed a Fulbright Research Grant to Chile for study of freshwater
and marine fungi.
Harry D. Thiers reports that visitors to the San Francisco State University Herbarium during
the past few months include J. KIMBROUGH, University of Florida, J. AMMIRATI, University
of Washington, and NICK MALAJCZUK from Perth, Australia.
Rod Tulloss had the pleasure of hosting C. BAS and D. T. JENKINS during August at the time of
the Northeast Mycological Foray. After the foray, R. TULLOSS joined C. Bas and D. T.
Jenkins to collect and work on Amanita in north central Alabama.