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Dr. Charles Thom of the Experiment Station, Storrs, Con- 
necticut, spent a day at the Garden recently, consulting the 
library. 
Dr. B. M. Davis, assistant professor of botany in the Uni- 
versity of Pennsylvania, was at the Garden December 19, looking 
up specimens of Oenothera to be used in work on mutation. 
Dr. C. B. Robinson, formerly in the employ of the Garden, 
and for the past three years economic botanist in the Bureau of 
Science, Manila, has returned and is spending some time at the 
Garden. 
Professor J. C. Arthur and Dr. F. D. Kern spent several days 
at the Garden the early part of January studying rusts in con- 
nection with work on North American Flora. 
Mr. R. E. Stone of Cornell University visited the Garden in 
January to consult the fungous collections with special reference 
to parasites on leguminous plants. 
Among other recent visitors at the Garden were Drs. A. F. 
Blakeslee and G. P. Clinton of the Agricultural College, Storrs, 
Connecticut; Professors J. C. Blair and Chalres D. Crandall of 
the University of Illinois; Dr. E. W. Olive of the State College 
of South Dakota and Professor R. B. Thomson of the University 
of Toronto. 
Mr. Edward W. Berry, formerly a student of the Garden, 
has recently published a book (Bulletin No. 3 of the Geological 
Survey of New Jersey) of 233 pages and 29 plates on ‘The 
Raritan Formation.”’ About 100 of the 128 plate figures of 
fossil plants are reproductions of figures in Newberry’s “Flora 
of the Amboy Clays,” the type specimens of which are in the 
museum of the New York Botanical Garden. Numerous in- 
cidental references may also be found to other types and figured 
specimens in the museum, collected by Dr. Arthur Hollick in 
Long Island, Block Island and Martha’s Vineyard. 
The meeting of the various scientific societies of the country 
at Washington during Christmas week was a notable one and 
well attended. The botanists had very full programs, as well 
as a dinner and a smoker, in which between one hundred and 
