Lecture II, "Cultivation of Plants," by Mr. George V. 

 Nash, on October 24 and October 25. 



Grade 5B 



Lecture I, "Industries Depending Upon Forests. Plant 



Products," by Dr. H. H. Rusby, on October 10 and October 



Lecture II, "Woody Plants and Plants without Wood. 

 Protection of Trees in Cities," by Mr. F. J. Seaver, on 

 October 19 and November 1. 



Lecture III, "Classification of Plants," by Dr. N. L. 

 Britton, on October 26 and October 27. 



Scientific Meetings 



The monthly Conferences of members of the staff and 

 students have been continued with success, and a report 

 of each meeting has been published in the current number 

 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 cooperation 

 with the New York Botanical Garden, held an exhibition 

 of plants and flowers in the museum building on June 4 

 and 5. An account of this exhibition was published in the 

 July Journal. 



The Northern Nut-Growers' Association met at the 

 Garden on November 17 for permanent organization. An 

 interesting exhibition of various kinds of nuts formed a 

 feature of the meeting. 



Personal Investigations 



Returning from Mexico late in January, I at once began 

 to study and arrange the large collections of tropical 

 gill-fungi obtained by various exploring expeditions sent 

 out by the Garden in recent years, and, later in the year, 

 specimens of most of these were taken to Europe and com- 

 pared with type material. A series of articles covering 



