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presented on April 20-21, 1917, on the occasion of the dedica- 
tion of the laboratory building and plant houses. There are 
thirty-three contributions, covering 521 pages, 28 plates, and 41 
text figures. Table of contents will be mailed on request. The 
price of the work is $3.50, plus postage. 
Mr. John McCallum, a well known amateur botanist and 
zealous collector of plants of Long Island and vicinity, died 
March 17, aged 74 years. In 1915 the Garden acquired Mr. 
McCallum’s herbarium of about 1,700 specimens, chiefly of the 
local flora. 
The Sixth Annual Meeting of the Eugenics Research Associa- 
tion was held on June 21-22, 1918. The meetings of the first day 
were at the Eugenics Record Office, Cold Spring Harbor, Long 
Island, and those of the second day at the Brooklyn Botanic 
Garden, from 10:00 A. M. to 1:00 P. M. 
Among summer callers at the Garden were Prof. E. N. Tran- 
seau, Ohio State University, Dr. W. A. Orton, pathologist in 
charge of cotton, truck, and forage crop disease investigations, 
Bureau of Plant Industry, and vice-chairman of the Federal 
Horticultural Board, Mr. Harry B. Shaw, pathological inspector 
at the Port of New York, Alexander Lurie, horticulturist of the 
Missouri Botanical Garden, Mrs. Theron A. Strong, New York 
City, and S. H. Burnham, Hudson Falls, N. Y. 
Mr. Alfred T. White, of the Botanic Garden Governing Com- 
mittee, and Dr. Gager and Mr. Taylor, of the Garden staff, were 
in Bretton Woods, N. H., on July 10-13, and made collections 
on the Alpine garden and other parts of Mt. Washington. Dur- 
ing the following week Mr. Taylor made collections at Orient 
Point and Gardiner’s Island. 
On July 15, Mrs. August Dreyer, assistant director of the New 
York Federal Food Board, a branch of the United States Food 
Administration, gave an illustrated lecture in the Garden Lecture 
Hall on Food Conservation. 
