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Estudio de la Flora Cubana” (pp. 203-207), including references 
ubli 
tions on the Cuban Flora, and accounts of Cuban botanical 
of the New York Botanical ee in Gibs is alluded to. In 
plants aggregating over 30,000 Ane our own explorations 
alone having brought in over 17,000 field numbers 
We cordially tender all oo. which thie vast collection 
supplies to the use of La Sociedad Poe 
N. L. Britton. 
NOTES, NEWS AND COMMENT 
Dr. C. H. Farr, who holds.a Cutting Traveling Fellowship at 
Columbia University for the present school year, sailed o 
October 22 for Jamaica where he will spend about two nies 
in the study of tropical plants, especially ferns. 
Dr. J. N. Rose has recently spent several weeks at the Garden 
in continuation of the study of Cacti collected in South America. 
Meteorology for October -—The total precipitation for the month 
was 1.90 inches. The imum temperatures for each week 
ere 67° on the 6th, 75° on the 15th, 76° on the 2zst, and 70° on 
the 27th. The minimum temperatures were 33° on the ioth, 
42° on the 18th, 29° 
ery 
slight and extremely local frost occurred on the night preceding 
the roth, but the first killing frost of the season was during the 
night preceding the 24t! 
