December meetings will be held as follows: Section A on 

 Thursday, December 2, at 4:30 p. m.; Section B on Thursday, 

 December 9, at 4:30 p. m. Attention is called to a recent de- 

 cision that postal card notices of meetings will no longer be sent to 

 members, but announcements will be inserted in the daily papers 

 as heretofore. 



The program for the December meetings will include a review 

 of the field trips, further remarks on the species of oaks and 

 pines, and a discussion of the formation of their fruit — the acorns 

 and cones. Mr. Francis M. Weston, Jr. will give an account of 

 the birds of the Rail family which occur in this region, A new 

 feature of the meetings will be a roll-call, at which each member 

 will be requested to mention some species of exotic tree or shrub 

 cultivated in the city, and to state briefly its history or the degree 

 to which it flourishes here. 



NOTES FROM THE MU5EUM 



For eleven days in November the main hall was occupied by 

 the American Tuberculosis Exhibition, which formed the nucleus 

 of a campaign for the education of the pubHc regarding the 

 nature of tuberculosis and the community action necessary for 

 its eradication. The exhibition was visited by 10,846 people; an 

 average of nearly a thousand a day. 



Through the kindness of Miss Henrietta A. Kelly, the Museum 

 has received a dozen white mulberry trees {Morus alba Linn.), 

 which have been planted on the Museum grounds, and will afford 

 an opportunity in the spring for an experiment in silkworm, 

 culture. 



Note: The Museum files of numbers 3, 4, and 5 of the first 

 volume of the Bulletin are exhausted, and if any readers have 

 copies of these issues which they are willing to return, the Mu- 

 seum will receive them gratefully. 



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