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Professor Orton is especially interested in fungi causing plant 
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The following persons were among those who have registered 
in the library during August and September. Earl E. Sherff, of 
Chicago; Dr. Julia W. Snow, of Smith College; Dr: J. N. Rose, of 
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Tokyo; Professor H. T. Darlington, of the Michigan Agricultural 
College; Dr. J. Elias Fries, of Birmingham, Alabama and Upsala, 
Sweden; and Fred R. Jones, of the Euiversity of Wisconsin. 
A Teachers’ Institute meeting on Nature Study, held at the 
Garden on the afternoon of September 12, was attended by a 
number of the Bronx Public School teachers y, of 
the Morris High School, delivered the main address, followed 
by a brief talk by Dr. Murrill and an excursion led by M y 
met at th rden Thursday morning, September 14, to hear an 
illustrated lecture by Mr. George V. Nash on “H he Public 
chools can use the Collections of Livi Plants at the New 
York Botanical Garden.” After the lecture there 
cursion to variou: ale of the grounds under the a of 
Mr. Percy Wils 
A valuable collection of ferns from the Hawaiian Islands has 
recently been added to the Garden herbarium through an ex- 
change with ie Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Honolulu. 
A collection of over five hundred specimens of ferns and 
flowering plants from various parts of Mexico has been received 
or the herbarium through exchanges with Prince Roland 
Bonaparte, Paris. 
