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students, and the other of seventeen pupils in the regular botany 
course. On November 11 a third class of thirteen from the same 
school made use of the greenhouse to study methods of plant 
propagation. The pupils worked in groups, each group taking up 
some one means of propagation, stich as seeds, bulbs, stems, or 
leaves. Each group later explained its own work to the class as 
a whole. 
Prof. William Bray, of Syracuse University, accompanied by 
Mrs. Bray, visited the Garden on November 15. 
On November 5, 1913, Dr. R. M. Harper, of College Point, 
L. L., presented to the Garden his mounted collection of Georgia 
plants, made during the years 1895-1897, comprising 653 sheets, 
and representing about 650 species. Among them is the type 
specimen of Scirpus Georgianus Harper, a species stated by Rob- 
inson and Fernald to range from Quebec to Michigan, Georgia, 
and Arkansas. 
Mr. Charles M. Dow, of Jamestown, N. Y., chairman of the 
Letchworth Park Committee of the American Scenic and Historic 
Preservation Society, and director of the State Reservation at 
Niagara Falls, N. Y., visited the Garden on November 23, accom- 
panied by Mr. James O. Howard, superintendent of Letchworth 
Park, and Mr. Henry K. Elruh, superintendent Gi the. iReser= 
vation. 
On account of the remarkably late continuation of mild weather 
during the past fall, it was possible to do outside work in the 
Garden to advantage up to November 22, on which date the day 
laborers were dismissed. The laying of sod was continued up to 
November 20, and this was a great advantage, as the new grading 
along the upper part of the brook made it very desirable to sod 
the steep banks before winter set in, so as to protect them from. 
serious erosion. 
Work on the second (central) section of the conservatories was 
completed on December 10, 1913, but it will not be feasible to: 
install the plants in this house until next spring. The grading 
contractor, Mr. John Connor, completed the grading on December 
1. This work includes the esplanade approach to the Museum: 
building and the removal of a portion of the embankment adjacent. 
