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students who had done work of exceptional merit in various 
branches of the department of biology. 
On the afternoon of May 21, 1913, from three-thirty to six, 
the Japan Society and their friends were the guests of the Botanic 
Garden and the Central Museum. ‘l‘ea was served by the Com- 
mittee on Botanic Garden of the Institute trustees, and the 
Garden staff, but on account of the threatening weather, the tea 
was served in the Museum building, and not in the Garden, as 
announced. ‘The trip through the Garden included the native 
wild flower section, a collection of shrubs from Western China, 
the brook, seedlings of the giant redwood (Sequoia), and the 
site of the proposed Japanese garden. ‘The souvenir itinerary of 
this trip contained a picture of the laboratory building as it will 
appear when completed, and on the front page, the Japanese 
characters for “welcome.” At the Museum were exhibited rare 
Japanese costumes and related objects recently acquired in Japan 
by the curator of ethnology. 
‘The following persons visited the Garden on May 24: Prof. 
Alexander W. Evans, of Yale University ; Miss Caroline Coventry 
Haynes; Dr. Marshall A. Howe; Mrs. Annie Morrill Smith; 
Dr. Mary L. Lines; Prof. J. Franklin Collins; Mims leh. (Gx 
Britton; Dr. Edward B. Chamberlain; Miss Ellen Fddy Shaw; 
and Mr. Frank H. Ames. 
From May 4 to 7, the curator of plants, accompanied by Mr. 
Sereno Stetson, collected herbarium material in Chester and 
Lancaster counties, Pa. Chester county is at the extreme south- 
western part of the local flora range, and the trip was planned 
with a view of obtaining certain plants that are rare, or obtain 
their northerly limit of distribution in this region. The serpen- 
tine barrens, near Oxford, are extremely interesting from a 
botanical standpoint, suggesting, except for their hilliness, the 
pine barrens of New Jersey, but made up of a very different 
fora from the latter. In the rocks of the barren region large 
masses of the moss-pink, Phlox subulata, were found perfectly 
wild. Not more than a mile distant is a large hemlock grove, 
and the diversity is noticeable in many other ways. Numerous 
photographs, taken by Mr. Stetson, are valuable records of the 

