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and, also, certain unique floral associations. They represent the 
time interval between the Lower Cretaceous and the Miocene 
Tertiary, and may be more or less sae nea correlated with 
the Great Falls, Dakota, Montana, Laramie, and Fort Union 
formations of the western states, ie aes Potomac and Raritan 
of the Atlantic coast, and the Komé, Lower Atané, Patoot, and 
Upper Atané beds of Greenland. 
o A. B. Srout. 
NOTES, NEWS AND COMMENT 
The Garden recently ani a Pellerin of three hundred and 
seventy Clare Island, Ireland, 
in eannuation of exchanges with the Royal Gardens, Kew, 
England 
Messrs. David G. Fairchild and Walter T. Swingle, of the 
United States Department of Agriculture, recently made a visit 
at the Garden, especially inspecting the experiments in plant 
breeding now in progress in the experimental greenhouse. 
1] Pas 
The British Museum recently sent the Garden a 1 
of the plants gathered in North America, chiefly in Mexico, 
during the earlier part of the last century, by Theodor Hartine. 
This valuable addition to our collections is now being mounted 
for the herbariu 
A Journal Club for the review of botanical literature has been 
organized recently at Columbia University for the benefit of the 
various botanical departments of the University, the New York 
Botanical Garden and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. The Club 
meets twice a month. 
The first number of the Missouri Botanical Garden Bulletin 
has appeared, beginning with January, 1913. The Bulletin is a 
monthly and will contain various items pertaining to the Missouri 
Botanical Garden that are of popular interest, especially to the 
residents of St. Louis 
