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ALEX SHIGO gave a series of lectures to the Department of Plant Pathology, University of
Minnesota in October 1984.
GARY LEATHUM presented seminars on "Biodeterioration of Wood" and "Lentinus edodes Culture"
at the Department of Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota in May 1 r
JACK D. ROGERS presented an invited lecture on "The Evolution of Fungi" at the University of
Illinois on October 22, 1984.
WALTER J. SUNDBERG spoke on "Stinkhorns-and Other Fungal Oddities" to participants at the
Northeastern Mycological Societies Foray (Glassboro, NJ) and the Alexander H. Smith
Lake State Foray (Oregon, IL) on August 17 and September 28, 1984 respectively.
RONALD H. PETERSEN gave a lecture on "The Coralloid Fungi of New Zealand" and MARGARET LEWIS
talked about "The Intricacies of Tricholoma" at the Friends of the Farlow annual meeting
on November 10, 1984.
STEVEN E. CARPENTER presented "Mycological Phenomena at Mount St. Helens" to the North Arner-
ican Truffle Society in Corvallis, Oregon, on December 7, 1984. He will speak on the
same topic to the Mount Mazama Mycological Society in Ashland, Oregon and the Humboldt
Bay Mycological Society in Arcata, California on March 18 and March 20, 1985 respectively.
After participating in the British Mycological Society's meeting on "Developmental Biology
of Agarics", IAN K. ROSS visited and presented a seminar entitled "Photomorphogenesis
in Coprinus congregatus" to the following departments and laboratories in Apri 1, May,
and June: Department of Botany, University of Glasgow (C. Elliott); Department of
Microbiology, University of Aberdeen (D. G. Gooday) ; Department of Botany, University of
Bristol (N. Reed dnd A. Beckett); Department of Genetics, University of Seville (E.
Cerda-Olmeda); Laboratory of Developmental Mycology, University of Lyon, France (Dr. G.
Manachere) ; Department of Microbiology, University of Geneva (G. Turian) ; Glasshouse
Crops Research Lab., Littlehampton (D. Wood), and Sandos Lab., Basel, Switzerland (J.
J. Sang1 ier) .
In April, 1984, CARLENE A. RAPER made an invited presentation on "Strategies for Mushroom
Breeding" to the British Mycological Society's conference on "Developmental Biology of
Agarics" held at Manchester, England. She also spoke at the EMBO Workshop on Gene
Expression In Fi 1 amentous Fungi held recently at Rhenen, The Netherlands.
RICHARD T. HANLIN presented the Ascomycete portion of the Plant Disease Identifiers Workshop
organized by the PPQ of APHIS of the USDA and held in July in Frederick, MD.
"The Mycel ial Maze" below was drawn by Professor A. H. R. Bul ler (1874-1944) and was
recently found in the back of one of Professor Buller's books by G. C. Ainsworth. We thank
Dr. Ainsworth, who is currently preparing this and other of Professor Buller's materials for
eventual inclusion in the collection at the Royal Botanical Garden, for sharing it with us.
Test your skill--reach the center ("The Secret of Mycology1'--Buller). A copy of
Sundberg and Richardson's Mushrooms And Other Fungi Of Land Between The Lakes will be sent
to the first person sending a Xerox copy of "The Mycel ial Maze" with the correct solution to
the MSA Fiewsletter Editor. Runners up (20) will receive a printed illustration of Mycena
subcaerulea.
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