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Resolved: That the foregoing preamble and re- 
— be printed in the Garden eal and that 
copy be sent to his bereaved fam 
oe L. Britton, 
Secretary, 
Approved by the Board of aig of the 
New York Botanical Garden 
November 15th, 1923 
PUBLIC LECTURES DURING DECEMBER 
The December course of public lectures and demonstrations 
was given in the Ce ntral ee Greenhouse of Conservatory 
Dec. 1. ‘Australian nee Mr. . R. Boynton. 
Dec. 8. ‘‘Air-plants.”’ Dr. H. A. Gleason. 
Dec. 15. ‘When a tropical vegetation eae in Alaska.” 
r. Arthur Hollick. 
Dec. 22. ‘Ferns of the Tropics.” ae . A. Howe. 
Dec. 29. ‘Cocoa and chocolate.” ’ Dr. W. A. Murrill. 
NOTES, NEWS AND COMMENT 
One of the maidenhair-fern trees (Ginkgo biloba), located near 
the Mosholu Parkway Entrance to the Garden, bore about 
a hundred fruits this fall. They began falling about November 
hi 
ae pies in 1 the United Saas is a native - aes 
Asia and th f 
amily, a order, 
wich formerly included twenty or more species of ponent 
geographic distribution. 
Cones appeared for the first time this year on our specimens of 
Alcock’s spruce; lace-bark pine, and dwarf Japanese red pine, all 
of which are represented by young trees in the Pinetum. The 
great Bhotan pines are also bearing heavily and their long gray- 
green cones are very attractive. 
