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NOTES, NEWS AND COMMENT 
About 300 biology students from Evander Childs High School 
visited the Garden on Tuesday morning, January 23, and were 
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types of uu ean there. On coming out of the conser- 
vatory and o to the museum building the nearby 
collections of oe aad deciduous trees tudied, attention 
as directed to their characteristic winter condition by which 
y may Pe cae the museum they inspected the 
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room where an Masta talk on “The American Forests’ 
was given by Mr. Hastings. 
and Mrs. Britton and Dr. Seaver sailed for Porto Rico on 
Saiiay. January 20. Dr. Britton will continue aa studies of 
the flora of the island, and Dr. Seaver will pursue studies of 
fungi, in connection with Dr. Chardon of the ae es 
Station 
Small returned from Florida January 10, after a very 
successful botanical oe bringing back to the Garden 
many valuable access 
T nuary conference of the scientific staff and registered 
students of the Garden was held Wednesday, January 3. 
program consisted of reports of the Boston meeting of the 
American Association for the ey vancement of Science by Dr. 
Mel T. Cook and Dr. R. A. Har 
ech for December: The total precipitation for the 
onth was 2.94 inches, of which ee inches (3.75 inches by 
snow measurement) fell as snow. The maximum fp oun 
recorded for each week were: 56° on the on 54° on the 4th, 43° 
on the 12th, 43° on the 24th and 47° on the 26th. The minimum 
temperatures were: 16° on the 11th, 19% on the 13th, 14° on the 
oth and 14° on the joth. 
Meteorology for the year 1922: The total precipitation for the 
ar at the New York Botanical Garden was 45.48 inches. This 
was distributed by months as follows: January, 1.75 inches 
(including 7 inches snow measurement); February 2.41 inches 
