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dinner at the Hermitage Hotel in the evening. The European 
visitors ere Dr. and Mrs. Brockmann-Jerosch, of Ziirich, 
erland, Mr. C. B. Crampton, of the Geological Survey of 
A Lara Dr Ove Paulsen, of Copenhagen . Eduard 
Riibel and Professor Carl Schréter, of Ziirich, Dr. T. J. Stomps, 
of Amsterdam, Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Tansley, of Cambridge, 
England, and et C. von Tubeuf, of Munich. 
Tulip trees would appear, from experience on the grounds of 
the Garden, to be more likely to be struck by lightning here 
than any others. At least eight of these trees have been struck 
during the past ten years and have subsequently died. The 
last one damaged was during a storm in June; this tree stands 
near the south side of the driveway east of the Long Bridge, and 
the effect of the lightning on its trunk is very evident. A f 
years ago, another individual which stood within a ea nea 
feet of this one was by Rae The tulip tree is the 
tallest and most massive tree of our region. Whether its wood 
has any attraction for electric discharges, or whether the form 
of the tree is the attractive feature is unknown. The destruction 
not been confined to very large trees, as some of relatively 
small size, with trunks not over a foot in diameter, have been 
shattered. 
eared for July—The record of the rainfall at the Garden 
for July 18 and 19 was lost. The record at the municipal building 
at Tremont ane for that date was 0.29 inch. Including 
this figure, the total precipitation at the Garden for the mont 
was 4.06 inches. Of this amount, 1.87 inches fell on the after- 
noon of July 28, diate between 3:45 and 4:30, in an unusually 
severe storm. Maximum temperatures for each week were as 
follows: 98° on the oe 92° on the 13th, 89° on the 22d, and 97° 
on the 30th. The minimum temperatures were 55° on the 7th, 
54° on the 8th, 56° on the 15th, and 54° on the 26th. 
