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having been appointed in 1907, and the first appropriation of 
$35,000 having been made in July, 1911. It will be remembered 
that this parkway will extend from the northeastern boundary 
of the Garden at Williamsbridge northward along both sides of 
the Bronx River to Valhalla, a length of about fifteen and one 
half miles, and will protect the Bronx River from pollution. 
Several members of the Bedford Garden Club visited the Garden 
on Saturday, August 15, and remained to the flower show and 
lecture. This club was organized about two years ago and has 
a membership of one hundred women who own, plan, and work 
in their gardens. It meets twice a month during the summer co 
hear papers written by the members or lectures by professional 
speakers on gardening topics and discussions of garden problems. 
A public flower show is held once a year, and various excursions 
are made to interesting gardens in other localities. Among the 
members who visited the Garden, were Mrs. Henry Marquand, 
Mrs. Henry C. Hopkins, Mrs. Merrill E. Gates, Mrs. Nelson 
B. Williams, secretary of the club, and Miss Delia W. Marble, 
vice-president. 
Dr. Florence A. McCormick, assistant professor of agricultural 
botany in the Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station, pre- 
sented the results of two months’ research work at the Garden 
at an informal conference held on the afternoon of August 12, 
which was attended by fifteen local botanists interested in cyto- 
logical subjects. A few years ago, Dr. McCormick discovered 
a ‘central body” in the zygospore of the ordinary black mould 
of bread, and her object this summer has been to trace the history 
of this body and to determine its function in the zygospore. A 
large amount of culture work and sectioning has been necessary 
in the prosecution of this difficult piece of research, and many of 
the preparations made have not yet been studied. 
Dr. Johan Nordal Fischer Wille, professor of botany and direc- 
tor of the Botanical Garden of the University of Christiania, 
