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Garden staff were in attendance at the scientific meetings of the 
. A. S. and affiliated societies recently held in Philadelphia. 
r. J. C. Arthur and Dr. F. D. Fromme of the botany depart- 
ment of the Purdue Experiment Station, Lafayette, Indiana, 
spent the month of January at the Garden in continuing work 
on the Uredineae for North American Flora. 
The Sullivant Moss Society held its annual meeting on Decem- 
ber 30 in Botanical Hall, University of Pennsylvania. 
etc., was held in the morning; in the afternoon papers were given 
in alphabetical alee by Mrs. Elizabeth G. Britton, Dr. 
Alexander W. Evans, Dr. Otto E. Jennings, Mr. George B. 
Kaiser, Miss pain Lorenz and Mr. G. K. Merrill, relating to 
various groups of mosses, hepatics and lichens, the mosses of 
ermuda, the Mexican species of Plagiochasma, the ecological 
distribution of mosses in the vicinity ot Phi hia, a list 
hepatics to be expected in New England and the primitive uses 
of lichens. Extracts from a letter from Monsieur J t to J 
M. Holsinger were read, stating that all his collections, librar 
and personal property had been destroyed at iT d 
that at present he and his family are devoting themselves to the 
care of the wounded in France! 
Meteorology Jor November.—The Hotel ee for the 
formed over the three lakes on the night o! 
Meteorology for December—The total peiiton for the 
month was 3.57 inches of which 0.1 inch (reduced to Sie 
fell as snow. Maximum temperatures for ie 
on the 3d, 53° on the 14th, 43° on the 2oth, and 39° on . 2ist. 
