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Lecture III, “Classification of Plants,’ by Dr. N. L. 
Britton, on May 16 and May 18. 
Scientific Meetings 
The monthly Conferences of members of the staff and 
students have been continued, and a report of each meeting 
has been published in the current number of the JourNat. 
The Torrey Botanical Club has met each month as usual 
in the morphological laboratory of the museum building. 
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 June Io and 
11, July 1 and 2, August 26 and 27, and September 16 and 
17. Accounts of these exhibitions were published in the 
Journat for August and September. 
The Municipal Engineers of the City of New York made 
a visit of inspection to the Garden on the afternoon of 
Saturday, June 17. At two o’clock, an illustrated lecture 
on “The Protection of Shade Trees” was given in the 
lecture hall of the museum building, and the remainder of 
the afternoon was devoted to the inspection of the buildings 
and grounds under the guidance of members of the Garden 
staf. 
Personal Investigations 
Attention has been directed chiefly to the collections of 
tropical gill-fungi in the herbarium of the Garden. Four 
articles on this subject, comprising fifty printed pages and 
containing descriptions of sixty-one species new to science, 
have been published during the year in Myconocia. 
A number of colored illustrations of fleshy fungi for a 
series of articles appearing in Mycoxocia have been pre- 
pared under my direction, together with careful descriptive 
notes from the fresh specimens. Twenty-three species have 
been published in this series during the year. 
Owing to the abundance of fleshy fungi during the 
autumn and the great public demand for information 
regarding edible and poisonous species, a set of colored 
