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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 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. 
Dr. P. A. Rydberg, curator, is spending several weeks studying 
in the United States National Museum, Washington, D. C. 
Dr. John K. Small, head curator, left New York, October 31, 
for southern Florida, where he will spend several weeks studying 
the flora of that region. Professor Hugo de Vries will accompany 
him on this expedition. 
Dr. Arthur Hollick, curator, has a three months’ leave of 
absence from the Garden and will spend the time in a continu- 
ation of his studies of the fossil flora of Alaska. The work will 
be carried on at the United States National Museum. 
Mr. Stewardson Brown, curator of botany in Philadelphia 
Academy of Sciences, spent several days at the Garden in October 
and November studying recent collections of Bermuda plants, 
Dr. Fred J. Seaver gave a lecture before the Horticultural 
Society at the American Museum of Natural History, Oetobet 
26 on ‘Insect Parasites and Some Means of Controlling Them 
Miss Vera Charles, of the United States Department of 
Agriculture, visited the Garden in October to examine the 
collections o 
Dr. W. A. on assistant director, represented the Garden 
at the dedicatory exercises of the new State Education Building 
held in Albany, October 15 to 17. 
Mr. Frank Meyer, agricultural explorer for the United States 
Department of Agriculture, visited the Garden recently. 
will soon sail for China where he will conduct botanical explora- 
tion in the interior for the next three or four years 
