November 20. ‘The Diatoms,”’ by Dr. M. A. Howe. 
lectures, which occupy an hour, will be illustrated by 
lantern slides and otherwise. Doors closed at 4:00; late comers 
admitted at 4:15. 
The Museum Building is reached by the Harlem Division of 
a 
York, Westchester and Boston Railway change at 180th Street 
for crosstown trolley, transferring north at Third Avenue. 
NOTES, NEWS AND COMMENT 
F.S. Collins of North Eastham, Massachusetts, who was 
th 
an examination of Bermuda algae in the Garden herbarium. 
Mr. Charles Piper Smith, of the Maryland bes College, 
College Park, Maryland, spent a few days at the Garden in the 
latter part of September, engaged in a ne of certain lupines 
n the Garden herbarium. 
days, in company with Dr. Seaver, inspecting the grounds of the 
New York Botanical Garden with special reference to insects 
destructive to ornamental trees and shrubs. 
The presence of the European pine-shoot moth in New York 
and vicinity adds one more to the long lst of harmful insects 
