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An important cata of herbarium speci mens of mage ring 
plants from Staten Island, brought together by Dr. Arthur 
Hollick, has oe aide to the local flora nen 
Dr. Stout has an interesting collection of rare and distinct 
The bulb 
forms of noe ulbs were collected wild in Spain 
and shipped to the Garden late last summer. They were potted 
in connection ian ee oridicg and will be mate 
from year to yea 
Fifteen hundred plants of the two cultivated types of the 
in th 
ho 
interesting and peculiar type of sterility involving incompati- 
tility in ig ane nnn type very commonly seen in ena d 
plants. 
An advanced class in biology from ee! Childs High School 
with Mr. Ha astings, spent the afternoon of March 15 at the 
Garden examining the museum and hearin collections of 
fungi and alg 
An informal bird club has been holding meetings in the 
River. as the morning of March 19, over a dozen bird students, 
could be h and seen in th ‘by tr fo) ay, 
the chickadees were feeding on suet in the spicebushes, and 
lowny ers were waiting on the branches above for 
weeks, aula not be found. The two northern shrikes were alos 
