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Among the many interesting experiments being carried on at the new Biological Laboratory, which was completed last year and is numbered among the outstanding institutions of its kind in the country, are two tests which using various forms of fungi as mediums, are of great general, as well as technical and scientific interest. One experiment, which deals with the sexual reproduction of fungi, is being conducted by Dr. F. L. Drayton, a National Research Fellow and L. H. Ames 3G. Dr. G. A. Ledingham, research assistant at the Laboratories, is in charge of the second test, and is investigating...
...Drayton and Ames have discovered several new and important facts, about certain types of fungi in their experiment. Nothing has been known until very recently about the sexual reproduction of fungi. Through their experiments these men have discovered that in the types of fungi they studied a single spore gives rise to a fungus plant, which produces both types of fungi they studied a single spore gives rise to fungus plant, which produces both types of reproductive organs. It is therefore hermaphroditic. But, the interesting point is that the fungus is both self-sterile and cross-fertile a condition which...
...shipment of glass flowers, the first to be received since 1929, will be added to the Ware collection in the University Museum, it was learned yesterday. The new addition, which arrived from Germany several weeks ago, contains 23 new models of fruits, illustrating particularly, various fungi growth...
...Tokyo. He spent 20 years studying fish, two of them under Chancellor Jordan at Stanford. He went to Japan, returned with a stock of goldfish which he distributed about the 80 pools of Messrs. Furrow & Bailliere's Ozark Hatcheries. He introduced scientific methods for the control of protozoa flukes, fungi and other aquatic organisms, soon had a fast growing community of strong, healthy goldfish...
...Louis, Missouri, Dr. Carroll William Dodge, tenders his resignations from the University to the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Dodge has been the curator of the Farlow Reference Library and Herbarium of Cryptogamic Botany since 1921, and has seen its collections of lichens, mosses, and fungi, nearly double in size...