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The Museum Building is reached by the Harlem Division of 
the New York Central and Hudson River Railread to Botanical 
Garden station, by trolley cars to Bedford Park, or by the Third 
Avenue Elevated Railway to Botanical Garden, Bronx Park. 
Visitors coming by the Subway change to the Elevated Railway 
at 149th Street and Third Avenue. Those coming by the New 
York, Westchester and Boston Railway change at 180th Street 
for crosstown trolley, transferring north at Third Avenue. 
NOTES, NEWS AND COMMENT 
Mr. Russell T. Gheen of the College of Forestry, Syracuse 
University, recently spent a week at the Garden studying the 
geographical distribution of the forest trees of the State of New 
York 
Dr. Francis W. Pennell of the Department of Botany of the 
University of Pennsylvania, who is monographing the subtribe 
Agalinanae of the family Rhinanthaceae, was at the Garden 
during the first week in May studying the herbarium specimens 
of the groups in which he is particularly interested. 
The Council of the Bronx Society of Arts and Sciences met on 
May 9th, at three o'clock in the Director’s office on the main 
floor of the museum building. 
A field meeting of the department of botany of the Brooklyn 
Institute of Arts and Sciences was held at the New York Botan- 
ical Garden on the afternoon of May 16, fifteen persons being 
present. After a tour of inspection of the conservatories, plan- 
tations, and hemlock grove under the guidance of Dr. Murrill 
and Mr. Wilson, the visitors attended a lecture on ‘‘American 
Orchids” by Mr. Nash in the lecture hall of the museum building. 
