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LATE SUMMER LECTURES, rors 
Lectures will be delivered in the Lecture Hall of the Museum 
Building of the Garden, Bronx Park, on Saturday afternoons, 
at four o’clock, as follow: 
Aug. 7. ‘‘Flowers of a Summer,” by Dr. N. L. Britton. 
Aug. 14. a viehene the Gypsy Moth,” by Dr. W. E. Britton. 
Aug. 21. ‘‘Fungous Diseases in the Flower Garden,” by 
Cook. 
Aug. 28. is sala of the North American Indians,” 
by Dr. W. C. Deming. 
Sept. 11. ‘The Use of Mushrooms for Food,” by Dr. W. A. 
Sep : oe re Uses and Possibilities of Sea- 
ela " by Dr. M. A. How 
NOTES, NEWS AND COMMENT 
t. Winifred J. Robinson qecently spent several days at the 
eee in looking up material and equipment for a course in 
botany at the Women’s College of Delaware of which she is dean. 
She will spend some time at Newfane, Vermont, with Dr. Ger- 
trude Burlingham in collecting Russulae, after which she will go 
to San Francisco to attend the meetings of the Western Science 
Association and the Association of Collegiate Alumnae 
Miss Friedolina Jud and Mr. Roy C. Faulwetter have each 
been granted a scholarship for one month during the summer 
for assisting in the eer in Ber breeding. 
uring the spring and summer “‘pine mice’’ have been very 
destructive especially of herbaceous plants growing in the ex- 
perimental plots. In response of inquiries to the Biological 
