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on the 27th, 28°; while the minimum on the 28th, the day 

 the plant was taken, was 25°. The word day as here 

 used means the weather bureau day extending from 8 P. 

 M. to 8 P. M. The temperatures recorded by the local 

 weather bureau, situated as it is in the very center of an 

 industrial region whose furnaces are constantly liberat- 

 ing large quantities of heat, are from two to five de- 

 grees higher than surrounding territory. 



The fern grew in a semi-protected position on the 

 western side of a narrow wooded ravine whose general 

 slope is toward the south. It was frozen solid seemingly 

 when taken, but the frost had disappeared when it was 

 removed from the vasculum in the afternoon. The trees 

 were leafless and all except the hardy plants were killed. 



How and why this particular plant was enabled to with- 

 stand temperatures which destroyed all of its kind and 

 how much longer it might have survived are points over 

 which one can only speculate. 



Peabody High School, 

 Pitt- burgh, Pa. 



Notes and news 



MR. CHESTER C. KINGMAN 



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from an operation for appendicitis, at the age of 39. At 



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rare privilege of collecting with Mr. Davenport. During 

 the past six years, he spent most of his time studying and 

 collecting bryophytes. 



Elizabeth M. Dunham 



