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Stuart Gager; ‘‘The Marine Flora of Jamaica,” by Dr. M. 
A. Howe. 
February 20. ‘‘Some Plants from the far North,” by Dr. 
P. A. Rydberg. 
March 6. **Some Species of Hypocreales,” by Mr. F. J. 
Seaver; ‘« Review of some recent literature on plant poisons,” 
by Dr. H. M. Richards. 
March 20. ‘The Morphology of the Nymphaeaceae,” by 
Dr. Melville T. Cook. 
April 17. ‘¢ Solution Tension and Toxicity in Lypolysis,” 
by Dr. Raymond H. Pond. 
November 6. Symposium of recent work upon Photosyn- 
thesis. Discussed by Professor H. M. Richards, Miss Wini- 
fred J. Robinson and Mr. Ralph C. Benedict. 
These conventions were discontinued for a time on account 
of a course of lectures arranged for Wednesday afternoons 
at Columbia University. 
The Torrey Botanical Club has held special regular meet- 
ings during the year in the Laboratory of the Garden. 
A field meeting of the Bronx Society of Arts and Sciences 
was held at the Garden June 29 to discuss the care and pro- 
tection of trees. This Society also held a field meeting on 
August 17 for the study of mosses and certain other plants. 
The Horticultural Society of New York held its annual 
meeting and exhibition in the Museum on May 8 and g; its 
summer exhibition on June 12 and 13; and its autumn meet- 
ing and exhibition on November 13 and r4. 
Exercises commemorating the two hundredth anniversary 
of the birth of Linnaeus were held at the Garden on May 23. 
A full account of these exercises, in which several members 
of the staff took part, appeared in the Journal for June. 
The international conference on plant hardiness and accli- 
matization, held in New York, October 1, 2 and 3, met at the 
Garden on October 3. The forenoon was devoted to the 
reading of papers and the afternoon to the inspection of the 
collections. Respectfully submitted, 
W. A. Murri.y, 
First Assistant. 
