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On March 6 the new Curator-in-Chief of the Brooklyn Museum 
of Arts and Sciences, Me William Henry Fox, visited the New 
York Botanical Garden in company with Dr. C. Stuart Gager, 
mmissioner at the Roman International Exhibition of Art 
and History (1911). He was appointed Curator-in-Chief of the 
Brooklyn Museum in January of the present year. 
Aaron Aaronsohn, director of the Jewish Agricultural Ex- 
periment Station in Palestine, delivered an interesting address on 
American Museum of Natural History on the evening of Feb- 
ruary 15. The so-called ‘wild wheat,” which Mr. Aaronsohn 
and certain eae in the study of the Gramineae believe 
to Naneue the progenitor of the modern cultivated TF is 
d to be the ae wild plant of thousands of acres on the 
soe of Mt. mon in Palestine. It flourishes in a region 
ere the al is only five or six inches a year, while the 
ciel wheats require a minimum of about fourteen inches 
to mature a crop of grain. Experiments in hybridizing are 
tine made with the hope of obtaining a wheat that shall com- 
of Plant Industry of the United States Department of Agri- 
culture, were present and spoke of the importance of the work 
of the Jewish Agricultural Experiment Station to American 
agriculture and especially of what it would mean to develop a 
variety of commercially valuable wheat that could be grown in 
parts of the western United States where a successful culture 
of wheat is now impossible on account of a scanty rainfa 
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