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Sept. 5. ‘The Life History of a Tree,” by Dr. C. S. Gager. 
Sept. 12. ‘‘Diseases of Cultivated Plants,” by Dr. G. P. 
Sept. 19. ‘‘Interrelations between Botany and Geology,” by 
Dr. pare Hollick. 
Sept. 26. ‘Wild Flowers of Autumn,” by Dr. N. L. Britton. 
a. lectures, which occupy an hour, will be illustrated by 
lantern slides and otherwise. Doors closed at 4:00; late comers 
admitted at 
The Museum Building is reached by the Harlem Division of 
the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad 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 
Professor F. L. Stevens, of the State University of Illinois, was 
a visitor at the Garden on August 4. 
Mr. William C. Barbour, of the High School of Commerce in 
this city, is spending the summer at the Garden. He is making 
a study of lichens in general and giving special attention to the 
forms occurring in this vicinity. 
olume 10, part 1, of North American Flora was published 
July 28, 1914. It comprises 76 pages by Dr. W. A. Murrill on 
the Agaricaceae. The part contains a treatment of the last ten 
genera (42-51) of the tribe Agariceae, family Agaricaceae. 
hundred and eighty-one species are described, thirty-nine of 
which are new. Extra copes of this part were printed in order 
to supply the demand for ae on the gill-fungi. 
