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Mr. Vanderbilt was born on Staten Island in 1862, and much 
of his youth was spent there on his father’s farm. He early 
became interested in trees and other plants; these tastes led him 
to purchase and develop an extensive tract of land in the moun- 
tains of North Carolina as a forest preserve, to which plant 
nurseries and experimental grounds were added. These have 
been of great practical and scientific value, having increased our 
knowledge of many trees and shrubs. A forest school was 
maintained at Biltmore for a number of years, and its graduates 
have rendered noteworthy service to the cause of American 
forestry. The Biltmore nurseries have brought many rare and 
otherwise interesting plants into cultivation. He also brought 
together a large herbarium and a bo fanieal library. Biltmore 
Botanical Studies, published in 1901 and 1902, contain descrip- 
tions of many trees, shrubs and herbaceous plants new to science. 
His services to botany are commemorated in the beautiful genus 
Biltia, dedicated to him by Dr. Small in 1903. 
WHEREAS: The Board of Managers of the New York Botanical 
Garden have learned, with great regret, of the death of Mr. George 
Washington Vanderbilt, 
Resolved: That the Managers deplore this se to botanical 
science, and tender sympathy to his bereaved fam 
A by the Board of Managers of the paee April 16, 
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1914. 
N. L. Britton, 
Secretary 
NOTES, NEWS AND COMMENT 
Dr. N. L. Britton and Mr. Stewardson Brown returned to 
New York, June 8, from Bermuda, where they spent the latter 
part of May in a continuation of the studies on Bermudian flora. 
Dr. William Dana Hoyt, at Johns Hopkins University, recently 
spent a week at the Garden in bibliographical and herbarium 
work in connection with a report upon the marine algae of 
Beaufort, North Carolina, soon to be published under the 
auspices of the United States Bureau of Fisheries. 
