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Dr. E. L. Ekman, assistant in the botanical department of the 
“Riksmuseum” (National Museum) at Stockholm, recently 
visited the Garden for nearly two weeks. Dr. Ekman took his 
degree of Ph.D. at the University of Lund and made a botanical 
exploration of the Province of Misiones, Argentina, in 1907- 
He is now on his way on a second exploration for two years to 
the West Indies, especially Santo Domingo and the State of 
Pernambuco, Brazil. The expenses are defrayed by a Regnellian 
Stipend, instituted by Dr. A. F. Regnell, who lived from 1840- 
1884 in Brazil. Dr. Ekman is especially interested in the genus 
Vernonia and has studied this large genus of the world. e 
examined the American collection in the Garden cane 
affixing his determination to many of the sheets. 
Mr. Paul B. Popenoe, of Washington, D. C., spent a day at 
the Garden recently. He reports a steady increase in the sub- 
scription list of the Journal of Heredity, of which he is the editor. 
Meteorology for March.—The total precipitation for the month 
was 2.39 inches of which 1.125 inches ar. 25 inches of snow 
each week were as follows: 51° on the sth, 59° on the 15th, 56° 
on the 17th, and 73° on the 27th. Minimum temperatures were 
20° on the oth, 15° on the 13th, 24° on the 2zst, and 26° on the 
25th 
ACCESSIONS 
MUSEUMS AND HERBARIUM 
specimens of flowering plants and ferns from Porto Rico. (By exchange 
on i ieee of Agriculture, Porto Rico 
imens of marine algae from Orient, New York. (By exchange with 
Mr. Roy Lath 
6 specimens a hepatics and mosses from Austin, Texas. (Given by Dr. M.S. 
Young.) 
15 specimens of grasses from Cuba. (By exchange with Brother Leon. 
7 specimens of flowering plants from western North America and Central 
America. (Given by avouses T. a A. Cockerell.) 
i plants from Lower Canada. (By exchange 
with Brother Victorin.) 
