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Kunkel was five weeks in Stockholm, one week at Christiania, five 
months at Freiberg, ten days at Berne, one week in Holland, 
three weeks in Berlin, and also visited Munich, Nuremberg, Tub- 
ingen, Darestadt, and Heidelberg, sailing from Copenhagci on 
June 8, on the “ Peace ship,” Oskar IT. 
A third edition of the booklet of “ Information Concerning the 
Brooklyn Botanic Garden” has been issued. Copies may be had 
on application to the Secretary. 
During the latter part of June work was resumed on the con- 
tract for the completion of the laboratory building and_ plant 
houses, after a delay of about one month, occasioned chiefly by 
labor difficulties. 
On June 10 the Garden received from Mrs, Clarence R. Hyde, 
Brooklyn, a gift of 81 books on botany and gardening. Several 
of the books contain autograph letters from the authors to Mrs. 
Hyde’s mother, Alice Morse Earle. Among the older books 
were a copy of Parkinson’s Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris, 
London, 1629; and Bigelow’s Florula Bostoniensis, 2nd Ed., 
Boston, 1824. 
The second banana plant grown in our economic house is now 
forming a large bunch of fruit, which will doubtless be ripe by 
late October or early November. 
