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The Garden was visited on May 9 by Mr. Guy West Wilson, 
and on May 13 by Prof. H. H. Whetzel, of Cornell University. 
On the afternoon of May 12, Professor Whetzel addressed the 
Biological Association of Erasmus Hall High School, Brooklyn. 
Prof. Hugo de Vries, of Amsterdam, an honorary member 
of The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, was recently 
elected a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of 
Paris, and also of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Prussia. 

The Garden is deeply indebted to Herr Hofrat Prof. Dr. 
Julius von Wiesner, of Vienna, for the valued gift to our library 
of copies of all separate reprints of his published papers now 
available. 
On January 10, a class of thirty pupils, with their teacher, 
from the Girls’ High School Annex, P. S. 42, visited the Garden 
for the purpose of studying the birches and horsechestnuts in 
their winter condition. Special attention was paid to the blanket 
label on the girdled white birch. 
Recent addresses have been given by the director of the 
Garden as follows: On April 1, before the Mothers’ Club of 
Public School 47, on “The Brooklyn Botanic Garden”; on April 
a before two assemblies at the Boys’ High School, Brooklyn, 
ine otanic Garden and its use to the schools and people 
Brooklyn.” The aggregate attendance at the two assemblies 
was over 2,000 boys. On May 2, an illustrated talk was given 
at the Training School, Jamaica, L. I., on “Spring flowers and 
trees of Greater New York.” At the close of the address a 
Japanese maple was planted on the campus, in front of 
the building. 
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Volume one, number one of the Missouri Botanical Garden 
BULLETIN appeared in January, 1913. The publication is to be 
issued monthly, until further notice, and, according to the Fore- 
word, “will be devoted almost exclusively to informing the people 
of St. Louis and vicinity what can be seen and learned at the 
Missouri Botanical Garden. * * * ‘The BULLETIN is in no sense 
a scientific publication, and will not replace the volume hitherto 
known as the Annual Report, which in the future will be devoted 
