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librarian, Mr. Frank P. Hill, whereby the Brooklyn Public Library 
has completed its set of Curtis’s Botanical Magazine, comprising 
138 volumes, from volume 1 (1793) to volume 138 (1912), and 
two volumes of index, and has placed the entire set on deposit in 
the library of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. The Brooklyn 
Public Library will also continue its subscription to this valuable 
work. The books were received on October 25. 
A beautifully mounted collection of slime molds (Myxomy- 
cetes) has been presented to the Garden by Mr. Harold Wingate, 
of Brooklyn. The collection consists of 155 specimens, distrib- 
uted among about 130 different species. They were gathered for 
the most part in the vicinity of Philadelphia, in the region where 
Dr. Rex, the famous collector of Myxomycetes, gathered most of 
his material. 
The Science Room Conference on November 15th, under the 
auspices of the Department of Botany of the Brooklyn Institute, 
was conducted by Dr. Olive, the subject being “A Comparison of 
the Physiological Processes of Plants and Animals.” The con- 
ference was well attended and the discussion was interesting and 
lively. | 
Meetings of the Seminar of the Botanic Garden staff and in- 
vited members were resumed on Thursday, November 6, at 4 
pn. As heretofore, the meetings will be held fortnightly through- 
out the academic year. During the present year, the subject of 
heredity will continue to form the basis of discussion. 
A Journal Club has been organized by the Garden staff to meet 
bi-weekly, alternating with the Seminar, for the purpose of review- 
ing current botanical literature. The first meeting was held on 
December 1, at 4 p.m. Teachers of botany in local schools have 
been invited to join the club. 
The Garden is pleased to acknowledge the receipt, from James 
McCutcheon and Company, of New York City, of an attractive 
case containing an exhibit of the economic uses of flax, including 
dried specimens of the plant which supplies the raw fiber out of 
which linen is made, flax seed, and samples of different kinds of 
linen goods manufactured from this fiber. An endeavor is being 
made by the Garden to secure numerous exhibits of this sort, to be 
