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Dr. George E. Nichols, of Yale eget will deliver the 
regular et lecture at the Garden on Saturday afternoon, 
April 4, at 4 P.M. The subject _ the lecture is the twelve 
thousand mile excursion made by the international plant geog- 
raphers last summer through some of the most interesting regions 
of the United States. Dr. Nichols obtained a series of excellent 
photographs, which will be used for illustration in the form of 
lantern slides 
Dr. C. H. Kauffman, assistant professor of botany in the 
University a Michigan, spent part of February at the Garden 
on a scholarship grant for the study of the genus Cortinarius. 
Dr. F. D. Heald of the Bureau of Plant Industry recently spent 
several days at the Garden in the study of herbarium material 
relating to the chestnut tree blight. 
Meteorology for January—The total precipitation for the 
month was 4.43 inches of which 0.375 (3.75 inches of snow reduced 
to rain-fall) inches fell as snow. The maximum temperatures 
for each week were 43° on the gth, and the 16th, 49° on the 24th, 
and 60° on the 28th. The minimum temperatures were 16° on 
the 6th, 3° on the th, 12° on the 23d, and 25° on the 26th. 
ACCESSIONS 
MUSEUMS AND HERBARIUM 
81 specimens of orchids from the Philippine Islands. (By exchange with Mr. 
Oakes Ames.) 
112 specimens of ferns from Trinidad. (By exchange with the New York State 
babes - 
specimens of flowering plants from Asia and America. (By exchange with 
re Roe Gardens Kew, England. 
ens of Hyacinthus from Louisiana. (By exchange with Mr. Mugo 
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