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its marine flora is essentially of a temperate character and not at 
all tropical in the usual sense of that term. It appears that the 
Humboldt current brings the cold waters of the South Temperate 
and Antarctic regions northward along the western coast of 
South America and that the nearly constant temperature of the 
ee ocean may be compared to the summer temperatures 
e Atlantic at New York or of the Pacific at Monterey, 
tee a. The larger, more conspicuous soma are kelps, 
closely related to species that occur on the coasts of eee 
Oregon, and Washington. Most of the specimens eee 
discussed by the speaker belonged to the class known as he 
rown algae 
NOTES, NEWS AND COMMENT 
Dr. Beverly T. Galloway, who for the past twelve years has 
been Chief of the Bureau of Plant Industry, has been appointed 
assistant secretary of agriculture. 
Messrs. David Fairchild, Walter Swingle and O. F. Cook of 
the Bureau of Plant Industry spent March 6 at the Garden, 
where they inspected the collection of palms and the plants 
which are being grown in the experimental work int plant breeding. 
Dr. E. A. Burt, ce of natural history in Middlebury 
College, Middlebur t., has been appointed librarian and 
mycologist of the nade Botanical Garden. The appointment 
will date from next September. 
Dr. Alexander W. Evans, Eaton professor of botany in Yale 
University, visited the Garden on March 25 to consult the 
Mitten collection of Hepaticae 
Bulletin no. 29 of the New York Botanical Garden appeared 
March 18. This bulletin contains the annual report of the 
Director-in-Chief with other official ee pertaining to 
e Garden 
