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We have received a copy of the first number of the Bulletin of 

 the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, issued November i, 

 1922. This is a four-page leaflet which will replace the regular 

 monthly letter heretofore sent to members of the Museum. Of 

 special botanical interest is the note in this Bulletin of the gift to 

 the Museum of the herbarium and part of the scientific library of 

 the late Samuel Hart Wright, of Penn Yan, N. Y. This well- 

 known botanical collector was born in 1825 and died in 1905. The 

 herbarium is reported to contain approximately 10,000 specimens, 

 including about half of the known species and varieties and repre- 

 senting 86 per cent, of the genera. About half the genera of 

 European plants are said to be represented in this collection in 

 addition to a large collection of specimens from Brazil, South 

 India, and New Zealand. The library comprises over 600 volumes, 

 most of which, the note states, are out of print. 



Dr. A. H. Graves, of the Botanic Garden staff, has been made 

 honorary member of Phi Sigma, the National Honorary Biological 

 Fraternity. Doctor Graves was elected by the Mu Chapter at 

 Washington and Jefferson College. The object of the Fraternity 

 is the encouragement of biological study and research. 



On Saturday afternoon, October 14, the prizes won by ex- 

 hibitors at the Ninth Annual Garden Exhibit were distributed to 

 the successful exhibitors at exercises held in the lecture hall. On 

 Saturday morning, October 21, silver pins were awarded to 14 of 

 the boys and girls who had qualified for this distinction by sustained 

 work in our courses for children. On this occasions the Boys' and 

 Girls' Club presented, for the fifth year, $35 for the support of a 

 French orphan. 



Flowers Out of Season. — The unusually prolonged period of 

 warm weather last fall resulted in a number of shrubs and herba- 

 ceous plants coming into bloom which ordinarily do not bloom until 

 the spring. Many flower buds opened on the Azaleas during late 

 October and the first part of November. As late as November 24 

 an almost fully opened flower was picked from one of the Rhodo- 

 dendrons near the lake. As late as the first week in November 



