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The lectures, which occupy an hour, will be illustrated by 
lantern slides and otherwise. The doors will be closed at 4:05, 
and opened again at 4:15 to admit those arriving late. 
The Museum Building is reached by the Harlem Division of 
the New York Central and Hudson River Railway to Botanical 
Garden Station, by trolley cars to Bedford Park, or by the 
Third Avenue Elevated Railway to Botanical Garden, Bronx 
Park. Visitors coming by the Subway change to the Elevated 
Railway at 149th Street and Third Avenue. 
NOTES, NEWS AND COMMENT. 
red J. Seaver, curator, received the degree of Doctor of 
mee at the Iowa State University on June 12. 
Professor Eduard Strasburger, the eminent plant cytologist 
of the University of Bonn, Germany, died May 20, at the age of 
sixty-eight. 
Dr. A. B. Stout, director of the laboratories, spent a week 
during June in Washington and Philadelphia, where he inspected 
various lines of work being done in plant breeding. 
Miss Emily Topp has been granted a research scholarship at 
the Garden for the month of August to continue her studies on 
variegation in Miscanthus. 
Professor Douglass H. Campbell, of Leland Stanford Univer- 
sity, California, visited the Garden June 15, on his way around 
the world in search of special plant material for studies in mor- 
phology and systematic botany. 
Dr. John K. Small, head curator of the museums and herba- 
rium, was given the honorary degree of Doctor of Science at the 
one hundred and twenty-fifth anniversary of Franklin College, 
at Lancaster, Pa., June 13. 
Dr. B. O. Dodge, of Columbia University, was awarded a 
research scholarship for the month of June to assist him in 
investigations on the Ascobolaceae, a family of inconspicuous 
fungi not very well known in this country. 
