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...their ninth conference. The tree which most occupied their dendrological talk was the stately American elm, which a blight has begun to attack. Unforgotten is the disease which wiped out practically every U. S. chestnut tree. Plant pathologists have found that elms are now being killed by a fungus, Graphium ulmi. The blight reached the U. S. in 1930 in some Carpathian elm logs shipped from Le Havre. It accompanies the beetle Scolytus multistriatus. This is a small, short-beaked beetle which nips the tender elm bark and shoots near the buds. Graphium ulmi enters the wounds. First external sign...
...king is a tiny fellow whose main function is to be the queen's husband. They cohabit for life, which may last ten years. Their offspring feed them and each other with food either regurgitated or exuded through the skin. Some species sprout an edible fungus garden in which the young may graze...
...demonstrations follow: Dr. B. F. Skinner, recently elected Junior Fellow, will cenduct an experiment on the "Behavior of Rats"; Dr. Ernst Wolf. "The Visual Acuity of Bees"; John Ehrlich "The Epidemic Diseases of Beech Trees"; A. B. Hatch of the Harvard Forest, "Fungus Roots"; and D. W. West, professor of Botany, "Plant Pathology...
Some entertain the opinion that House tradition should grow, like a fungus, unseen till it burst forth in all its prime and splendor. But whether this is true, or whether some other line of attack is better, it seems certain that the end cannot be attained by Bulletins and the like. They are an approach far too obvious for the modern taste; they consume valuable time, and are close to uselessness...
...obscure lower group of fungi is the medium for Dr. Ledingham's experiment. This fungus attacks the roots of wheat plants and causes considerable damage. From a scientific point of view, they have extraordinary methods of nuclear division, that are different from the usual means...