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n important taxonomic work based in considerable part on 
material secured by various expeditions sent out by the Garden 
is a 79-page paper on the “ Uredinales of Cuba,’’ by Prof. J. C. 
Arthur and J. R. Johnston. The volume was edited by Dr. 
Marshall A. Howe. 
The police of the Fifty-third Precinct, under Captain John 
levers, pursuant to a request of the Police Commissioner, have 
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Women’s Police Reserve and the Emergency Relief Organization 
of the Police Department. 
The will of Mrs. William Combe, recently probated, provides 
a bequest of $5,000 for the New York Botanical Garden. This 
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was given sub to the life-interest of her mother, bit her 
mother being predeceased, the bequest will be payable as soon 
as the estate be ided in accordance with the terms of 
since 1900. 
The officers and members of the American Fund for French 
and members of the Horticultural Society of New York. 
Ethelbert Nevin, Honorary Chairman of the Fund, Mrs. Charles 
apin, Chairman, and Mrs. Walter P. Bliss, Treasurer of 
the New York Branch, acted as hostesses. Mr. Newbold, Mr 
Hav and Dr. Britton represented the Cale and the 
fee Society. 
The New York Microscopical Society held a field meeting at 
the Garden on the afternoon on June 8, 1918, for the study and 
collection of pond life; most of the time was spent at lakes nos. 
2 and 3, when many minute treasures were found, both animal 
and vegetable. 
