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before the club in the lecture hall of the museum building 
by Professor Bruce Fink, of Miami University, Oxford, 
hio. 
The Horticultural Society of New York, in cooperation 
with the New York Botanical Garden, held exhibitions of 
plants and flowers in the museum building on May 9 and 
10, June 6 and 7, and August 15 and 16. Accounts of these 
exhibitions were published in the Journal for May, June and 
September. 
A field meeting of the department of botany of the 
Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences was held at the 
Garden on the afternoon of May 16, when a tour of in- 
spection was made of the conservatories, plantations, and 
hemlock forest. 
The convention of the American Association of Park 
Superintendents, in session at Newburgh and New York 
City August 24-27, visited the Garden in motor-cars on 
August 26, giving special attention to the hemlock forest 
and other park features. 
Personal Investigations 
A part of North American Flora containing descriptions 
of 281 species of the higher fleshy fungi, 39 of which were 
new, was completed and published early in the year; and 
another part, containing over 60 new species mostly ob- 
tained through explorations in tropical America, was com- 
pleted with the help of Dr. Burlingham and Professor 
Pennington by the end of the year and sent to the printer 
in January. 
The Underwood collection of fungi, consisting of 17,000 
specimens, was incorporated in the mycological herbarium 
with the aid of Dr. Seaver. A great many other specimens 
sent in for determination from various parts of the country 
were also incorporated, and the herbarium is rapidly out- 
growing the space allotted to it. 
The popular illustrated articles on fungi in Mycologia 
have been continued, with the aid of colored plates and 
