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have, from time to time, had in cultivation ; but this collection, 
together with Regel’s Library, though removed for safety to the 
Swiss Legation, has been entirely destroyed, together with all the 
buildings in which the firm conducted its business. The Bolshe- 
viks have even torn up and burnt for fuel the balks of timber of 
which the roadways were constructed in Kesselring’s nursery 
ground, together with all the trees and shrubs that were growing 
there. An even more tragic fate seems to have overtaken Julia 
Mlokosowitch, whose Christian name is recorded in Primula 
Juliae, which she found in the Caucasus, and whose surname will 
always remain attached to Paeonia Mlokosowitchii, which her 
father discovered in the Lagodeschi region (it is from this region 
Gentiana lagodeschiana was obtained) of the province of Tiflis. 
She has apparently been murdered by the Bolsheviks and her 
sister has been driven mad. M. Fomine and M. Medwedew, the 
well-known botanists of Tiflis, appear to have simply disappeared 
and nothing is known of their fate.” (W. R. Dykes, in. Ger- 
deners’ Chronicle, Feb. 14, 1920.) 
NOTES 
At the annual meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Brook- 
lyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, held on May 13, 1920, Mr. 
Frank L. Babbott was elected President to succeed Mr. A. Au- 
gustus Healy! Mr. Babbott thus becomes ex officio a member of 
the Botanic Garden Governing Committee. 
An International Physiological Congress will be held in Paris 
from July 16 to Jatly 20, 1920, under the presidency of Prof. 
Charles Richet. 
Recent callers at the Botanic Garden included Dr, Ivar Jorstad, 
State mycologist, Botanical Museum, Christiania, Norway (Feb- 
ruary 16); Mr. D. F. Jones, New Haven, Conn. (March s) ; 
_ Mr. Michael Shapovalov, U. S. Dept. Agric. (March L2)e; vir, 
H. S. Smith, Napier, New Zealand; Mr. J. I. Lauritzen, U. S. 
Dept. Agric. and Mr. F. G. Robb, Bureau of Markets, U, S. 
