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garden was obliged to meet in two sections on account of liniita- 

 tions of space in the greenhouse where the instruction was given. 

 The registration in the special course in Nature Art, under the 

 direction of Miss P. F. Fond, chairman of the art department 

 of the Girls' High School, was 21. The posters made by this 

 class, showing the utilization of plants and plant parts in design 

 were exhibited at the annual Spring Inspection on May 8. 



Library gifts. — Among gifts recently received for the Botanic 

 Garden library is a copy of Dans L 'Ati 'antique , by M. Henri 

 Deherain, Conservateur de la Bibliotheque de l'lnstitut, Paris, 

 France, presented by the author. The book is in four parts, all 

 of which have to do with events which took place in the Atlantic 

 Ocean and its islands and coasts. The fourth part treats of the 

 voyages of August Brottssonet to Morocco and the. Canary Islands. 

 Broussonet was a French botanist who was born at Montpelher 

 Feb. 28, 1761 and died at the same place on Jan. 17, 1807. He was 

 educated in medicine, and on a visit to England he was made an 

 honorary member of the Royal Society. Under the convention 

 he was obliged to leave Paris, but finally obtained permission 

 from the Directory to return to France, and in 1805 he was ap- 

 pointed professor of botany at Montpellier. 



A gift was also received in April from Mr. Frank Bailey of 

 the four large volumes of the Philosophy of Botany, by Robert J. 

 Thornton, published in London in 1810. 



Visitors to the Botanic Garden since the beginning of the year 

 include the following: Dr. R. P. Lohnes and Dr. William 

 Browning, Brooklyn; Air. Eduardo Quisumbing, University of 

 the Philippines (Manilla; Dr. S. L. Kwong, Agr. Exp. Station, 

 Canton, China; Mr. J. Franklin Collins, Providence, R. I.; Mr. 

 A. B. Seymour, Plarvard University ; Dr. Frederick S. Lee, New 

 York City ; Mr. N. Fujita, Medical Corps, Japanese Army, Tokio ; 

 Mr. A. V. Fric, Prague; Air. Alfred Rehder ; and Prof. Teizo 

 Niwa, Professor of Horticulture, Mie Imperial College of Agri- 

 culture, and Expert of the Imperial Garden, Shinjuku, Tokyo, 

 lapan. Mr. Niwa is a specialist in the breeding of chrysanthe- 

 mums. 



