Obituaries and biographical notes

Allen, Caroline K. (1904-1975) Student of Lauraceae, mainly American but also of SE. Asia and New Guinea, on the Arnold Arboretum staff from 1933 to 1948, later in New York Botanical Garden, where, when the Flora Malesiana in 1968 suddenly was in difficulties, she made considerable efforts to save the project. Obituary Note in J. Arn. Arb. 56 (1975) 264. Bailey, F.M. Australian botanist who in 1879-1915 collected many fungi in Queensland, and wrote a number of papers on them. A list of these and whereabouts of his material given by S.L. Everist & L.J. Alcorn in Taxon 24 (1975) 44.