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shed” and “Plants of the Catskill Aqueduct Region.” Extra 
copies of this Leaflet have been asked for by the Department of 
Water Supply of the City, and by landscape architects. Fifty 
copies were requested by one of the high schools of Brooklyn to 
be used as a basis for class compositions in the English depart- 
ment. 

Dr. George K. K. Link, professor of plant physiology, Uni- 
versity of Nebraska, who is on leave of absence to assist in the 
war work of the Bureau of Plant Industry, in the office of Cot- 
ton, Truck, and Forage Crop Disease Investigations, made the 
Garden his headquarters for laboratory investigations from No- 
vember 14 to December 4. While here he was representing the 
new Bureau of Markets, and made a study of the storage and 
transit diseases of vegetables and fruits, doing educational work 
at the same time with the newly appointed market inspectors. 
Dr. Link is also preparing a manual for the use of market in- 
spectors. 
On December I0 we received from Mr. Alfred T. White seven 
autograph letters written by the noted French botanist Francois 
. André Michaux, from 1817 to 1827, to Dr. Francis, professor of 
materia medica in New York City. He traveled for twelve years 
(1785-1796) through Canada and the United States with his 
father, André Michaux, and published (1810-1813) a “ Histoire 
des arbres forestiers de l’Amerique septentrionale,” in 3 volumes, 
and “Travels to the West of the Allegheny Mountains.” His 
death occurred in 1855. It is the father’s name that appears on 
our building. 
Prof. W. G. Farlow, of the department of botany, Harvard 
University, presented the Garden, on November 9, with a copy 
of Farlow and Seymoutr’s, “ Provisional host index of the fungi 
of the United States,” Parts I-III, complete. The publication 
is rare, and is invaluable in plant disease studies. 
Gift of Flagpole —A flagpole of ash, primarily for indoor use, 
was presented to the Garden during October by Mr. Frederick 
Werner, 835 President St., Brooklyn. Mr. Werner’s son has for 
some time been greatly interested in our children’s work. 
