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NOTES, NEWS AND COMMENT 
A large specimen of sane Taxodium distichum, has 
been installed in the fossil plant museum. This specimen con- 
sists of a section of the base of a aE of a tree from the swamps 
of southern Louisiana. It stands fully six feet high and measures 
over six feet in diameter at the bottom and over four feet at the 
Dr. John K. Small, Head Curator of the Museums, has 
returned from southern Florida. He spent about four weeks 
collecting in the little-known parts of tropical Florida, particu- 
la: 
the result that a number of West Indian species are to be 
recorded for the flora of the United States. 
Dr. and Mrs. N. L. Britton, Professor and Mrs. N. Wille, Mr. 
John F. Cowell, and Mr. Stewardson Brown returned to New 
York on March 29 after spending a period of several weeks in 
botanical exploration in Porto Rico. 
Dr. William Dana Hoyt of Johns Hopkins University spent a 
week at the Garden early in March for bibliographic work and 
for studying marine algae from Beaufort, North Carolina. 
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Meteorology for March—tThe total precipitation for the month 
was 0.45 inches which fell as snow on the 6th. ight traces of 
he maxi 
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14th, on the 16th, and 63° om the 25th. The minimum ....... 
aria aae were on the 4th, 20° on the gth, 23° on the 18th, 
and 21° on the 2 
