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the annual meeting of the New York Academy of Sciences 
otel M 
a at the H anhattan on the ev of December 20, 
I915, members of the New York Aca y were enabled to con- 
verse with members of the California Acai Sciences in 
San Francisco, by the courtesy of t rican Telegraph and 
Telephone Comp: Tr tton talked with Miss Alice East- 
wood, Curator of t otanical collections of the California 
ademy, ined information relative to specimens of certain 
cactuses collected on the Galapagos Islands, and asked that they 
him for study, which est was granted; a letter 
ti 
instance when botanical specimens were borrowed over a tele- 
phonic distance of more than three thousand miles 
specimens collected in the course of the exploration of 
ida in re bei 
a) nae Flo: in 191 ve be a eing 
incorporated into the permanent collections of the Garden 
specimen: ise many interesting additions to the 
flora of the United States, both ndian plants not before 
found in continental North America and newly discovered en- 
demic species. 
Volume 17, Part 3, of North American Flora, was issued De- 
cember 20. It continues the family Poaceae, and is devoted 
as 
portion of this family, is now at work upon other groups for the 
Flora. 
The beds in the court of conservatory range 1 have again been 
planted with tulips. The color scheme is the same as in past 
unusually pink tulip, and ae ae 3% i an aie 1,950 
