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If autumnal coloration occurred at rare intervals, let us say 

 once in 25 years, we would certainly regard it as among the most 

 wonderful phenomena of nature. But coming as it does each 

 autumn with regularity, we are likely to fall into the habit of 

 viewing it as a matter-of-course event. 



A. B. Stout. 



PUBLIC LECTURES DURING NOVEMBER 



The following is the program of free illustrated lectures 

 given at 3 : 30 on Saturday afternoons in November in the 

 Museum Building of The New York Botanical Garden : 

 Nov. 7. " Beautiful Gardens of New York State." 



Mrs. John W. Paris. 



Nov. 14. " Seeds as Carriers of Disease." Dr. C. R. Orton. 



Nov. 21. "Original Exploration of the Yellowstone National 



Park." Prof. John M. Coulter. 



Nov. 28. " Botanical Features of Ceylon." Dr. H. A. Gleason. 



NOTES, NEWS, AND COMMENT 



Dr. L. O. Overholts, from Pennsylvania State College, has re- 

 cently spent a few days at The New York Botanical Garden, 

 completing his manuscript on the higher fungi of Porto Rico. 



Dr. W. J. V. Osterhout, who has held botanical professorships 

 in the University of California and Harvard University, has 

 begun his new work as a physiological investigator in the Rocke- 

 feller Institute for Medical Research in New York. 



Professor John M. Coulter, for many years head of the De- 

 partment of Botany of the University of Chicago and, since its 

 initiation, Scientific Adviser of the Boyce Thompson Institute 

 for Plant Research, has recently become a resident of Yonkers. 



Mr. Rafael A. Toro, who held a research scholarship at The 

 New York Botanical Garden for two months (hiring the summer, 

 has returned to his home in I'orlo Rico, where he w ill take up his 



