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Norway, spent two weeks of September at the New York Bo- 
tanical Garden. Professor Wille is well known to American 
botanists, especially by his studies of the green algae. Among 
papers in this field is the treatment of the Chlorophyceae in 
Engler & Prantl’s ‘Die natiirlichen Pflanzenfamilien.” Pro- 
fessor Wille is one of the foreign delegates to the celebration of 
the twenty-fifth anniversary of the organization of the board of 
trustees of the Missouri Botanical Garden to be held at St. Louis 
on October 15 and 16 
At the request of E. H. Anderson, Director of the New York 
Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Sega! 45 sets 
of the essays by Mrs. Britton on ‘‘Wild Plants Needing Pro- 
tection”’ which are illustrated with colored ae by the aid of 
the fund for the Preservation of Native Plants given by Miss 
Maria and Olivia Phelps Stokes, have been sent for distribution 
to the branches of the library in various parts of the city. 
Mr. J. R. Johnston, who has made extensive investigations of 
cocoanut and sugarcane diseases in tropical America, spent 
Association at Rio Piedras, Porto Rico, to accept the 
position of plant pathologist in the agricultural experiment 
station at Santiago de las Vegas, Cuba 
Miss Laura M. Bragg, Curator of Books and Public Instruc- 
tion, oe on Museum, Charleston, South Carolina, spent 
several days at the Garden about the middle of August, looking 
up records of South Carolina plants in the herbarium. 
Dr. Adolf J. A. Fredholm, professor of agronomy, College of 
Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, Mayaguez, Porto Rico, visited 
he Garden in August. 
Meteorology for August—The record of the rainfall at the 
Garden for August 11 was lost. The record at the municipal 
building at Tremont Avenue for that date was 0.90 inch. In- 
