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NOTES, NEWS AND COMMENT 
Mr. Fred A. Miller, M.S., director of the botanical department 
of the Eli Lilly and Company, was in residence at the Garden 
during October on a scholarship grant for a taxonomic study of 
the genus Digitalis 
Dr. John K. Small, of the Garden staff, is spending the month 
f November in Florida in a study of the natural flora of the 
i eeindes rom Miami as headquarters excursions will be 
made into the Everglades as far north as Lake Okeechobee. 
Mr. C. G. Lloyd, of the Lloyd Library and Museum, Cin- 
cinnati, Ohio, spent part of October and November at the Garden 
aetna the collection of polypores. Mr. Lloyd has ia 
been to Cuba and Florida peice specimens of this grou 
of ae 
Mrs. Katharine Brandegee, a member of the California 
Academy of Sciences, has been visiting the larger herbaria o! 
East euidyins types of amie! a a of Lupinus 
and Gilia f th d Borraginaceae. 
She esp cit several a at ie i York Botanical Garden after 
having visited Chicago and Cambridge, and is intending to 
spend some time in Philadelphia and Washington 
ACCESSIONS 
MUSEUMS AND HERBARIUM 
2 specimens of zea from the Adirondack mountains, New York. (Given by 
Dr. Felipe Garcia Cani: 
Ioo specimens of fae plants from Bolivia. (Collected by Dr. Otto 
Bucktien.) 
specimen of Dichelyma falcata from Round Mountain Lake, Maine. (Given 
me nie Annie Lorenz.) 
specimens of flowering plants from Rochester, New York. (Given by Miss 
ppt Beckwith.) 
