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é tT: . Rhoads, assistant in forest botany at Syracuse 
vn, een the ee rden ae ril 2 eee i consult the collec- 
d J. Seaver spent two days during the first week of 
May at ce Pitad-tpbia La eeuane of pate Sciences in Phila- 
delphia looking over This collection 
contains the types of many American species described by 
chweinitz and the work done there is preparatory to the 
publication of the cup-fungi in North American Flora 
Miss Georgia Wharton, of es branch of research, Forest Serv- 
ice, Washington, has been at the Garden examining specimens 
in the herbarium for ee to ee used in compiling maps of tree 
species; and in the preparation of a check list of West Indian 
ees and important shrubs 
n K. Smali spent part of April exploring i in the Cape 
hi 
and from Apalachicola in northern Florida. 
Professor M. L. Fer nald, of pervard Diaveretty,: spent two 
days at the Garden in April examining 
from Nein made for the Garden herbarium by Messrs. 
Howe and Lang in 
ydberg spent April 24 at the Philadelphia Academy of 
on i 
ae af the group aie the North American Flor 
