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as commercial concerns. Special permission has been ob- 
tained from Washington allowing the Garden to use suf- 
ficient coal to maintain its various permanent collections of 
tropical plants, but it will be necessary to cut off all the prop- 
agating houses back of the wall in order that as much coal 
as possible may be saved. This will prevent growing a large 
number of the plants used in the winter floral displays and 
likewise make it impracticable to grow the bedding plants 
used in the outdoor gardens during the spring and summer 
months. Consequently the Garden will probably present a 
very different appearance next summer, since many of the 
beds will have to be either left unplanted or used for grow- 
ing vegetables or other annuals which can be started from 
seed out of doors. Since it will require no heat to bring the 
chrysanthemums to their usual perfection, the regular 
chrysanthemum exhibit will be made next fall, but after this 
show the displays will be confined to blooming orchids, 
azaleas, and other perennial material. 
NOTICE 
For various reasons it seems desirable to discontinue the 
publication of the Butnerin during the months of July and 
August. Consequently the next number of the BuLLEerrn 
will not appear until the end of September. The total num- 
ber of pages for the current volume will not be materially 
reduced and the regular contents will appear in ten numbers 
instead of twelve. 
NOTES 
_ Dr. Charles Thom, of the United States Bureau of Chem- 
istry, was a recent visitor at the Garden. 
Dr. I. E. Melhus, of the lowa Agricultural Experiment 
Station, spent June 14 and 15 at the Garden consulting the 
library and mycological herbarium. 
Miss Anne W. Davis, of Princeton, New Jersey, research 
assistant in the graduate laboratory, has resigned to engage 
in chemical work relating to the war. 
Dr. M. Kanda, professor of botany in the Hiroshima 
Higher Normal School, Japan, accompanied by a group of 
his countrymen, visited the Garden on June 11. 
The following have been appointed Teaching Fellows in 
the Shaw School of Botany, Washington University, and will 
register for work in the graduate laboratory: 
