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Several collections of specimens from Jamaica, West Indies, 
made in codperation with the Public Gardens, Jamaica, have 
reached the Garden. A set of the plants-is being incorporated 
e herbarium, while the duplicates are being prepared for 
qatar to other institutions. 
Prof. H. H. Whetzel, of Cornell University, recently spent a 
few se at the Garden looking over literature and fungi be- 
longing to the genus Sclerotinia, aaa to working over this 
and allied genera for North American Flor 
r. Simon Davis, of Brookline, Massachusetts, an enthusiastic 
collector of fungi, spent a day at the Garden talking over plans 
or the summer collecting. Mr. Davis has collected many rare 
species of fungi in his region 
t this season of the year special effort should be made to 
remove all bag-worms from infected trees and shrubs, since these 
old bags contain the eggs for the spring brood. Bagworms are 
especially destructive to various evergreens, and where hidden 
by dense foliage, they often escape notice until they have accom- 
areas and steps are being taken to check the destructive work of 
this insect during the coming season 
the afternoon of February 27, about 500 biology pupils 
ne the Evander Childs High School assembled in the lecture 
hall of the museum building to hear a lecture by Mr. Henry G. 
Parsons, of the Carlen staff, on “How to Make and Care for a 
me Garden.”” Mr. Mann, Mr. Hewitt, an several one 
biology teachers were present and gave their 
to this effort to arouse an interest in the cultivation of as rich 
vacant land as possible withing the limits of the City 
Mr. Worthington G. Smith, celebrated for his illustrations of 
British fungi, died November 1, 1917. Several other famous 
