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Botanic Garden, was in attendance as a delegate from the 
Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, the University of Mis- 
souri, and the Torrey Botanical Club. 
Miss Alice Eastwood, curator of the botanical department of 
the California Academy of Sciences, spent two weeks in consulting 
the herbarium and library of the Garden in the latter part of 
March. A very interesting account of Miss Eastwood’s expe- 
riences in saving most of the Academy’s herbarium “types” at 
the time of the San Francisco earthquake and fire was published 
in Torreya for June, 1906. Permission has been obtained for 
the erection of a new building for the Academy in Golden Gate 
Park, San Francisco. 
At the exercises in commemoration of the one hundredth 
anniversary of the foundation of the Academy of Natural Sciences 
of Philadelphia, March 19-21, the Garden was represented by: 
Dr. Marshall A. Howe, who presented an illustrated paper on 
“ Reef-building and Land-forming Seaweeds.’’ In this paper the 
important and often predominating part played by the lime- 
secreting seaweeds in building “coral reefs’’ was emphasized. 
Delegates were in attendance representing most of the univer- 
sities, colleges, and learned societies of North America and many 
of those of Europe. 
A snow storm followed later by rains, amounting to consider- 
ably less than 2 inches of water altogether in this vicinity, oc- 
curred on March 12, helping to bring about, the next day, a flood 
in the Bronx River scarcely or not exceeded by any within the 
memory of the older residents. The road from the upper bridge 
in the Botanical Garden to near the foot of the grade at the 
Scott Avenue bridge was under water all day on the 13th, in 
some places to a depth of 2 feet or more when the flood was at 
the highest at about 3.30 P.M. An hour and a half later the 
water had fallen 6 or 7 inches and it continued to fall all through 
the night, so that on the morning of the following day it was some 
4 feet below the high water mark of the preceding afternoon, and 
the road above mentioned was everywhere out of water, although 
quite a stream was still flowing over the road leading eastward 
from the small wooden bridge at the lower side of the meadows. 
