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An appointment as laboratory assistant has been accepted by 
Mr. Frank Stoll, to take effect on September 1. 
With the growth of our scientific and educational activities, 
the work in the Garden offices has greatly increased until the ap- 
pointment of an assistant secretary became necessary. The po- 
sition was temporarily filled during May and June by Miss Lily 
C. Molloy, pending the appointment of Miss Barbara Eicholz, 
which will take effect on July 1. 
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An unseasonable snow on April 3, accompanied by a tempera- 
ture of 32° F., interrupted the out-of-doors work for nearly one 
week. 
Professor H. H. Whetzel, head of the department of plant 
pathology in Cornell University, gave three illustrated lectures on 
“Diseases of Plants” before the department of Botany of the 
Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, on March 29, April 5, 
and April 12. Accompanied by the curator of public instruction 
of the Garden, Professor Whetzel took occasion during his two 
weeks’ sojourn in Brooklyn to visit various plant growers at 
Flowerfield, Riverhead, Garden City, Jamaica, and other places 
on Long Island, in order to become better acquainted with the 
plant disease situation in this section of the state. The facili- 
ties of the Garden were placed at his disposal in his special 
studies on diseases of tulips and other bulbs, and on April 5 he 
addressed the Garden seminar on the subject of industrial co- 
operation in research. 
On April 6, Miss Margaret Heatly, of the department of 
botany of Wellesley College, visited the Garden to. inspect the 
laboratories. Plans are now being made for a new building for 
the biological sciences. at Wellesley. 
Miss Margaret Slosson, of the New York Botanical Garden, 
was at the Brooklyn Garden on March 3, consulting herbarium 
specimens of Porto Rican plants, especially ferns. 
Dr. J. A. Samuels, of Amsterdam, Holland, was a caller on 
March 26, Prof. C. P. Burns, of the university of Vermont, on 
