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Spain. It has been claimed that Columbus brought the first 
muskmelon seed to America. 
While the classification of Naudin is still the standard for 
students of the species Cucumis Melo, for purpose of con- 
venience it has become customary to divide the commercial 
muskmelons into two groups—namely, the netted and the 
scaly-skinned varieties. ‘The netted group, known as nut- 
meg or netted melons, comprises those usually grown in the 
North for the home garden and early market. The scaly or 
furrowed group contains the longer-season varieties, and the 
term cantaloup is correctly applied here. 
Cogniaux who, like Naudin, attempted to monograph all 
the melons and closely related plants, simply made two groups 
—vyar. agrestis including the supposed wild forms, and var. 
culta for the great number of cultivated types, whether edible 
or not. 
NOTES 
Dr. B. M. Duggar, Physiologist to the Garden, has been 
elected president of the Botanical Society of America. 
Dr. B. M. Duggar, physiologist to the Garden, spoke be- 
fore the St. Louis Garden Club, January 16, on ‘‘Shrubs for 
Fall Effects, in Fruit and Foliage.’’ 
The Hon. Arthur M. Hyde, Governor of Missouri, Henry 
W. Kiel, Mayor of St. Louis, and 8. H. Cromwell, Mayor of 
Kansas City, visited the Garden, February 9. 
Mr. G. H. Pring, Horticulturist to the Garden, gave an 
illustrated talk before the St. Louis Garden Club, February 
20, on ‘‘Water-lilies and Other Aquatic Plants.’’ 
Dr. George T. Moore, Director of the Garden, spoke before 
the educational section of the Wednesday Club, February 21, 
on ‘‘Have the School Virtues of Old Grown Obsolete?’’ 
Dr. Huron H. Smith, Curator of Botany, Public Museum, 
Milwaukee, visited the Garden, January 3-7, consulting the 
herbarium and library, and gave a lecture, January 5, on 
‘“‘The Aboriginal Uses of Plants by the Menominee Indians.”’ 
For the ensuing year the Board of Control of Botanical 
Abstracts has re-elected Dr. B. M. Duggar, Physiologist to 
the Garden, editor of the section, physiology of the higher 
plants, and Dr. J. M. Greenman, Curator of the Herbarium, 
editor of the section, taxonomy of the higher plants. 
