( 268 ) 
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 numbers of the JourNAL. 
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 codperation 
with the New York Botanical Garden, held exhibitions of 
plants and flowers in the museum building on May to and 11, 
June 7 and 8, July 5 and 6, and September 6 and 7. Ac- 
counts of these exhibitions were published in the JouRNAL 
for June, July, August, and September. 
The New York Library Club held its October meeting at 
the Garden on the afternoon of Thursday, October 9, with 
an attendance of 160. Illustrated lectures were given by 
Dr. N. L. Britton and by Dr. Raymond L. Ditmars. 
The New York Forestry Association held a meeting on 
October 17 in the lecture hall of the New York Botanical 
Garden. An account of this meeting was published in the 
Journau for October. 
Personal Investigations 
Increasing administrative and curatorial duties have left 
me comparatively little time to devote to investigation. 
However, the preparation of two parts of Nort AMERICAN 
Fora is in progress and these will probably be completed 
within a few months. 
Several weeks were spent in Europe during the summer, 
mainly at Paris, Trient, and London, for the purpose of 
comparing American specimens of fungi with original 
material preserved in European herbaria. Such comparisons 
are a necessary basis for all reliable monographic work on 
American fungi. 
Work has been continued on the fungous flora of tropical 
and western North America, a total of 74 previously un- 
described species having been published by me from these 
regions during the year. 
