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day of King Albert’s return here, we speak English, and the peo- 
ple will soon pick up the language, because the contact between 
the people and the army is permanent. You cannot imagine the 
enthusiasm which prevailed here when the English, French, and 
American troops marched in.” Mr. Free, our head gardener, is 
a member of the Administrative Committee of the Kew Guild. 
The Garden library has recently received a copy of “The War 
Garden Victorious,’ by Charles Lathrop Pack, President of the 
National War Garden Commission. The book is “dedicated to 
the War Gardeners of the United States and Allied countries in 
admiration of their success in adding to the World’s supply of 
food during the World War.” The volume is fully illustrated 
and is an interesting and valuable record of the work of the Na- 
tional War Garden Commission. It is not offered for sale. 
Dr. Ernest A. Gaumann, who is on his way from Switzerland 
to Buitenzorg to enter upon his duties as a member of the staff 
of the Botanic Garden at that place, was a caller at the Brooklyn 
Botanic Garden on April 24. 
Camillo Schneider, of Vienna, well known in the botanical 
world for his studies of woody plants, visited the Garden on 
May 6. Mr. Schneider’s botanical explorations in China were 
interrupted by the war, and he has been pursuing investigations 
at the Arnold Arboretum during the past year. 
Callers at the Botanic Garden during March and April included 
Mr. Masayasu Kanda, Professor of Botany in the Higher Nor- 
mal School, Hiroshima, Japan, and Mr. Taigan Matsunami, Pro- 
fessor of Pedagogy in the Nara Female Higher Normal School 
of Japan, both of whom are on a mission from the Japanese 
Government to visit scientific and educational institutions in this 
country and in Europe. 
The marriage is announced of Miss Jean A. Cross, since July 
I, 1915, assistant curator of elementary instruction in the Brook- 
lyn Botanic Garden, to Mr. Emil Ernest Weis, on March 29, 
