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to Mt. Prospect reservoir on the east, giving a means of approach 
to the Garden from Eastern Parkway. 
On the basis of “information recently received at the United 
States Bureau of Education,” School Science and Mathematics 
states that a well-known philanthropist has recently donated two 
fully equipped moving picture machines to the schools of Berlin. 
‘One is to be used in the Continuation Institute for Higher Teach- 
ers, and the other in the high schools of greater Berlin. Moving- 
‘picture films are now available in Germany for anatomical, bio- 
logical, and bacteriological courses. 
The meeting of the International Phytogeographical Excursion, 
for 1913, was held in the United States, under the leadership of 
Prof. Henry C. Cowles, of the University of Chicago, and Prof. 
F, E. Clements, of the University of Minnesota. The first excur- 
sion was on July 27, including the Brooklyn Botanic Garden in 
the morning and the Hempstead Plains of Long Island in the 
afternoon. Following the visit to the Garden, the members of the 
‘party were the guests of the Garden at an informal luncheon. 
For the afternoon trip the party was met at the Westbury station 
of the Long Island R. R., by Mr. Henry Hicks, of Isaac Hicks & 
Son, who generously provided autos and acted as guide over the 
plains. The three following days were spent in the pine barrens 
of New Jersey, and on July 30, the party visited the New York 
Botanical Garden, being entertained at luncheon at the home of the 
‘director, and at dinner in the evening at the Hermitage Hotel, near 
the garden. The entire summer was spent visiting places of botan- 
ical and scenic interest throughout the United States, including the 
Yellowstone National Park, the big-tree groves of California, and 
the Desert Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution, at Tucson, 
Arizona. Foreign members of the excursion who visited the 
Garden included Prof. Dr. A. Engler, of Berlin, Dr. Ove Paulsen, 
of Copenhagen, Dr. T. J. Stomps, of Amsterdam, and Prof. Carl 
Schroter, of Zurich. On the afternoon of October 8, Professor 
Schroter delivered an illustrated lecture, under the joint auspices 
of the Garden and the Department of Botany of the Institute, on 
Alpine Flora. (By a printer’s error this paragraph was omitted 
from the October number of the REcorp. 
