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Mycological Section.—Designed to furnish information
respecting the DISEASES of field and garden crops
caused by the attacks of parasitic fungi. In sending
samples of diseased plants for investigation state when
the disease was first received, whether abundant or not
and to what extent it is injurious, also facts relative to the
nature of the soil, kind of fertilizers used and system of
culture pursued. If the diseased portion be the leaves
these had best be dried under light pressure between the
folds of a newspaper or in a book previous to sending.
Grains and the stems of plants (only a fragment of the
diseased part) may be rolled in paper and enclosed in an
envelope. Tubers and fleshy roots should be made as
dry as possible and sent wrapped in paper. Vegetables
in partial decay may be packed in saw-dust and forwarded
by mail or express, prepaid.

United States Department of Agriculture,
Division of Botany,
Washington, D. C., Aug. 3d 1885.

Prof. Chas E. Bessey –
Lincoln, Nebraska,

My dear Sir:–

I have to thank you for your
kind favor of the 30th ult., just at hand,
and also for "The [Erysipliei?]" and the
"Bulletin of the Iowa Agr. Coll" containing
your interesting papers on Fungi. Such
papers [sic.] are of special interest to
me now. I shall be greatly obliged
for anything of the kind you may
be able to send. In time, I may
be glad to avail myself of the
space in the "Naturalist" that you so
kindly offer me. Your "suggestions", I am
happy to say, are in accordance with views
that I had already entertained, excepting that
matter of publishing two styles of papers.
Am glad you suggested this.

Yours very truly,
F. Lawson Scribner.