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Ribes aureum. WESTERN GOLDEN CURRANT. 
Location: Fruticetum 
Natural distribution: Western North America. 
CONFERENCE NOTES FOR FEBRUARY 
The conference of the scientific staff and registered students 
of the Garden for mile was held on Ae afternoon of February 
6. The following progra as pre: 
“Recent botanical Rater in ie by Dr. J. K. 
mall, 
“Observations on tulips,” by Dr. t 
Dr. Small described and pete specimens of numerous 
species studied during recent explorations in Florida. Some o 
these are new species. Special mention was made of species of 
Hicoria, Opuntia, Diospyros, and Zamia. A full i of t 
explorations are pub din this number of the Jou 
er development during summer in stored bulbs and its rela- 
tion to blindness, and (c) tulip rots. A report of these observa- 
tions with illustrations appeared in the February number of the 
Journal of the Horticultural Society of New York. 
A. B. Stout, 
Secretary of the Conference 
NOTES, NEWS, AND COMMENT 
A second installment of the specimens collected in Colombia 
by Dr. F. W. Pennell was recently received at the Garden and a 
set is being prepared for mounting and incorporating in the her- 
barium in connection with work on the flora of northern South 
America 
