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landscape architecture, their systematic affinities, and other items 
of botanical interest. 
The Garden takes pleasure in acknowledging the gift, on May 
3, 1912, from Mr. Henry Hicks, of Isaac Hicks & 5on, of eight 
different species of Magnolia, and seven different species of 
evergreens; also from Mr. John McCallum of two living speci- 
mens of the rare globe-flower (7 rollins laxus), six plants of the 
same species from Miss E. M. Kittredge, and several plants of 
the pixy or “flowering moss” (Pyx«idanthera barbulata), from 
Burrsville, Ocean Co., New Jersey, given by Miss Marie W. du 
Puget. 
On May g Dr. Gager was in Pittsburgh inspecting the organiza- 
tion and equipment of the Phipps Hall of Botany, and on May 
12 Mr. Taylor was in Brookline, Mass., and vicinity, in company 
with Mr. Frederick Law Olmsted, to make a study of the fea- 
tures of small streams in connection with the construction of the 
artificial brook through the Garden. Water was turned into the 
brook for the first time on May 27. 
