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GRANTS FOR SHADE TREE RESEARCH
Walter J. Sundberg notes the following: To encourage scientific research on shade
trees, the International Society of Arborcul ture has several small grants available. Funds
can be used to assist in the purchase of equipment, obtaining technical or student help, or
otherwise contribute to research. Fifteen grants of approximately $1,500.00 each wi 11 be
awarded in 1986. The required two-page proposals are due December 1, 1985 and awardees will
be notified in March, 1986. For guidelines and more data write to: Spencer H. Davis,
American Society of Consulting Arborists, 315 Franklin Road, North Brunswick, NJ 08902.
COMPUTERIZATION OF HERBARIUM COLLECTION DATA
Amy Y. Rossman reports that a meeting of mycologists concerned with the computerization
of fungal herbaria took place on November 14, 1984 at the National Fungus Collections,
Be1 tsvil le, MD. David Farr met with Don Pfister (Farlow Herbarium, Harvard University) ,
Barbara Thiers (New York Botanical Garden) and Joe Hennen and John McCain (Arthur Herbarium,
Purdue University). These herbaria are planning to computerize the label data on their rust
specimens thus forming a large data base of information on rust fungi. The National Fungus
Collections has completed the computerization of 200,000 specimens, mainly rusts and smuts,
and is tack1 ing the remaining 800,000 specimens.
ASPT HERBARIUM TRAVEL AWARDS
The American Society of Plant Taxonomists has announced the avai 1 abi 1 i ty of competi ti ve
awards for travel by graduate students to the nation's herbaria. Awards will not exceed
$500 and will be used to help pay expenses to and from any herbarium (or herbaria) in the
United States and per diem expenses during the visit. Competitions for awards will be held
twice a year: The first competition deadline is January 1, 1985, with the second deadline
July 1, 1985. The grants program will last a minimum of three years (six competitions).
Interested Master's or Ph. D. graduate students should send a curriculum vitae, two letters
of recommendation (including one from the major professor), a two or three page outline of
the proposed research emphasizing the role that the visit to the herbarium will play, and a
letter from the Head Curator, Chairman or Director of the institution(s) to be visited indi-
cating will ingness to receive the visitor. Awards will be announced by March 1 from the
January competition and during the annual banquet of the ASPT from the July competition.
Students are encouraged to obtain additional funds from their home institutions (or else-
where) to extend their research visits even further. This competition is open to students
of both cryptogamic and phanerogamic groups. Completed applications and additional questions
should be directed to Tod F. Stuessy, Chairman, ASPT Conmi ttee for Systematics Collections,
Department of Botany, Ohio State University, 1735 Nei 1 Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210. (Phone:
[6141 422-5200 or [614] 422-8952).
NEED HELP IN OBTAINING SPECIMENS OR GATHERING DATA?
Any investigator who would like collectjons or observations from readers of McIlvainea,
the journal of American amateur mycology pub1 i shed by the-Kofth American Mycological Associa-
tion, is invited to submit a full description of what is wanted to McIlvainea's editor, MSA
member Walter Li tten. For the 1985 issue, which is mailed in late July, descriptions should
reach iiim by April 30 and preferably much earlier.
ON THE MUSHROOM POISONING CASE REGISTRY
The Mushroom Poisoning Case Registry, sponsored by the North American ?~ycological Assoc-
iation, wants reports of a1 1 symptomatic cases of mushroom poisoning. A copy of the Registry's
Report Form is printed on the following pages for xeroxing and subsequent use. Reports should
be sent to Kenneth Cochran (see address on form). Copies of the Registry's first progress
report and the NAMA Toxicology Committee's current Poison Mushrooms and Mushroom Toxins Refer-
ence List are a1 so available oil request.