1or 
One week was spent on the island of St. Thomas and one 
week on St. Croix. The conditions here are at best arid and our 
visit Sine: in the dryest Part o an eked dry season 
But in spite of the rather the lated 
time the two weeks work will result in a eee mere increase 
n the number of species of fungi known from these interesting 
little islands. 
e total of the approximately ten weeks work in Porto cae 
m 
ousand 
jected to a microscopic st udy and the results incorporated in 
published i 
el 
erable number of species not iia known to sci 
Res —_, submitted, 
D J. SEAVER, 
Curator 
COMPLIMENTARY DINNER TO DR. THOMPSON. 
D Gilman Thompson, president of the New York Bot- 
anical Garden from 1913 to 1923, was aay a dinner by the 
Board of Managers April 12 in the of the Century 
with two handsome pieces of antique silver fe and with an 
engrossed copy of the following resolutions 
Wuereas: After distinguished service as President of The 
of ten ¥ 
he has thugaeur hie eae f the Garden given its devel p- 
ment an inten evoted attention, having its a 
Saideeten in mind its welfare at heart, having participated, 
ith rare ptions, in all meetings of the Board of Managers, 
n: 
of the Corporation, and of commi ittees of which 
member, wise in counsel and fertile in suggestion, be i 
