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Indies, to New York. Mr. York will spend about six weeks at 
the laboratory of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences 
located at Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island. 
Dr. W. A. Murrill, assistant director, recently returned from 
Virginia with a collection of poisonous fungi, which will be chiefly 
used for chemical analysis. Returning, he found evidences of the 
chestnut canker not far from Baltimore, Maryland, and diseased 
trees became more abundant northward. At Belair, Maryland, 
seventy-five miles south of Philadelphia, and at Northeast, Mary- 
land, the effects of the canker were very noticeable, most of 
the chestnut trees being dead or in a dying condition. At Red 
Bank, New Jersey, where the first chestnut trees were observed 
near South Amboy, New Jersey, where whole forests were either 
killed or badly affected. Throughout the whole of Staten Island, 
not a single healthy chestnut tree was observed 
Dr. J. E. Kirkwood, research scholar at the Garden at various 
times from 1899 to 1904, has been appointed professor of botany 
and forestry at the University of Montana. 
Meteorology for June——The total precipitation for the month 
was 4.84 inches. Maximum temperatures were recorded of 72° 
on the 4th, 79° on the 8th, 89” on the 14th, 95° on the 23d and 93° 
on the 30th. Also minimum temperatures were recorded of 44.5° 
on the 5th, 49° on the 8th, 57° on the 14th, 54° on the 26th and 60° 
on the 29th. 
ACCESSIONS. 
MUSEUMS AND HERBARIUM. 
76 specimens of flowering plants from British America. (By exchange with 
the Geological cael of Canada.) 
18 specimens of flowering plants and ferns from the Philippine Islands. (Dis- 
tributed by Pi a A. D. E. Elmer. 
2 specimens of Dryopteris simulata from New York. (Given by Mr. R. C. 
Benedict. 
8 canis of cana from Connecticut. (Given by Miss Annie Lorenz.) 
6 specim if rth n ferns. Given by Miss Margaret Slosson.) 
I ek of Daas ee ae: (Given by Prince Roland Bonaparte.) 
