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The Horticultural Society of New York held its annual 
meeting and exhibition in the museum building on May 13 
and 14; and its summer exhibition on June ro and 11. On 
June ro there was a joint meeting of this society and the 
American Rose Society. 
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences held a field 
meeting at the Garden on October 3 for the benefit of the 
members of its department of botany. 
Personal Investigations 
My own investigations during the year have dealt chiefly 
with the Boletaceae, a difficult family of fleshy pore-bearing 
fungi closely related to the Polyporaceae, and this group is 
now nearly ready for publication in ‘‘ North American Flora.” 
Type material and a large number of duplicate specimens 
have been examined at Albany, Cambridge, Washington and 
elsewhere, and the entire collections representing the Bole- 
taceae at the University of Vermont, where the Frost her- 
barium is deposited, at Cornell’ University, and at the Mis- 
souri Botanical Garden, have been most generously loaned 
me for study. The private collections of Mr. C. C. Hanmer, 
of East Hartford, Connecticut, Dr. N. M. Glatfelter, of St. 
Louis, Missouri, and several others have also been kindly 
placed at my disposal. While at Biltmore I obtained many 
fresh specimens of these plants with field notes, to supple- 
ment my collections of former years in Maine, New York, 
District of Columbia, Virginia, Tennessee and elsewhere. 
My publications on this subject during the year are as 
follows: ‘Collecting and Studying Boleti,” Torreya 8: 
50-55. 1908, ‘* Notes on the Life and Work of Charles C. 
Frost,” Torreya 8: 197-200. 1908, ‘* Boleti from Western 
North Carolina,” Torreya 8: 209-217. 1908, and ‘*The 
Boleti of the Frost Herbarium,” Bull. Torrey Club 35: 517- 
526. pl. 36-¢o. 1908. The last two were reprinted as 
Garden Contributions Nos. 111 and 114. 
The remaining portion of my monograph of the Polypo- 
raceae appeared March 12, 1908, as Vol. 9, part 2, of ‘* North 
