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view of the wonderful Rockies, It must be uplifting to live in 
the presence of these majestic’peaks, and it is no wonder that 
Denver wants to do big things with this inspiration always 
before her. 
The next convention will be held at Newburgh, N. Y., the time 
o be designated later. The new president is Henry Richards, 
superintendent of parks of Chicago. The akg president was 
J. B. Shea, ae of peer of Bost 
Dr. W. A. Murrill, assistant director, returned September 3 
from Europe, where he has been making a study of the types of 
American gill-fungi preserved in the larger herbaria. 
Mr. Albert Le Roy Andrews, Ph.D., instructor in German at 
Cornell University, has been in residence at the Garden during 
August and September on a scholarship for the taxonomic study 
of the genus Bryum. 
Dr. N. L. Britton, director-in-chief, Mrs. Britton and Mr. 
Stewardson Brown sailed for Bermuda on September 9, where 
they will spend three weeks in further studies of the flora of 
the Bermudas. 
Mr. Maurice Picard, M.A., recently elected assistant professor 
of botany at Middlebury College, spent several days at the 
Garden during the past month collecting material for the cyto- 
logical study of Hibiscus. 
Miss Winifred J. Robinson, Ph.D., assistant professor of 
botany at Vassar College, has been peeks dean of women at the 
University of Wisconsin during the 1 summer session of the 
Mees At the close of the session Dr. Robinson returned 
o New York and spent several weeks at the Garden in continuing 
. studies of tropical ferns and in work upon Gingko biloba, an 
apparently parthenogenetic form of which is growing upon the 
campus of Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York 
Meteorology for August.—The total precipitation for the month 
was 3.00 inches. Maximum temperatures for each week were 
