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have evidence that in at least one of these interglacial epochs 
true palms advanced as far north as southern Canada. I have 
refrained as yet from publishing anything in this connection, as 
it is the first definite paleontologic evidence of its kind, so far 
as I am aware, and it would not do to make any mistake either 
in our facts or our conclusions. Careful comparisons have 
been made, however, and there seems to be hardly any room for 
doubt in Saee certain of these specimens to ai spikes of 
palms and others to fragments of leaves and petioles 
The ince materials illustrating various points were 
exhibited. 
Photographs of specimens representing the Cretaceous Cyca- 
dales, Coniferales and Angiospermae of a 
Photographs of specimens representing the pe ae inter- 
glacial a of the Kootenay valley, Canada (fragmentary 
fruiting spikes, leaves and petioles of ais a dicotyledonous 
leaves, apparently Platanus, Fagus, etc.). 
Specimens from which latter aie were taken. 
A. B. Stout, 
Secretary of the Conference 
NOTES, NEWS AND COMMENT 
Dr. W. A. Murrill lectured before the students of the Virginia 
Polytechnic Institute at Blacksburg, Virginia on the evening of 
November 21, his subject being “‘The Austrian Tyrol,” with 
special emphasis on the at features of that region. 
. Carl eae lecturer on ees and keeper of the 
ree at the University of Upsala, was a visitor at the 
Garden on November 20. On the evening of November 17, he 
lectured before the New York Academy of Sciences on ‘‘The 
Vegetation of Patagonia, Fuegia, and the Subantarctic Islands.” 
Dr. Skottsberg was a member of the Swedish Antarctic Ex- 
has made one or more visits to Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego. 
