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major work has been on bacteriology at the College of Physicians 
and Surgeons and she has volunteered to serve with one of the 
Woman’s Medical Units that are going to France 
. George Franklin Gaumer, of Izamal, Yucatan, with his 
daughter, recently spent a day here examining the collection of 
cacti wit r. Britton and discussing various problems in connec- 
tion with his own work on the flora of that district of Mexico. 
is training his daughter to carry forward his biological Seles 
d she will remain with relatives in the United States to attend 
college. 
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Miss Elsie M. Kittredge, who has recently been appointed to 
take charge of the lantern slides at the Garden, has been granted 
tr Miss Kittredge added several species which had not 
been recorded for the flora of the state and expects this year to- 
make a number of photographs of rare plants, suitable for lantern 
slides. 
While the past winter has been very severe on certain forms of 
of some of the destructive insects. all quantity of the eggs 
f the tussock moth brought into the laboratory this spring h 
produced thousands of caterpillars. hile it is difficult to deter- 
mine just what per cent. of the eggs were viable, from the number 
that responded we feel certain that few missed. When we 
remember that this is only the first crop of the season and that 
the second brood in summer is many times more numerous, we 
can appreciate the value of ae and destroying these egg 
masses in the spring of the yea 
One of the rarest of eastern North American Orchids, Jsotria 
affinis, was collected on May 12 at Hempstead, Long Island by 
Miss Harriet Mulford and her sister. They found two specimens, 
