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addition to this .15 of an inch was recorded on the 2d, .o5 of an 
inch on the 9th, .10 of an inch on the 15th, .16 of an inch on the 
19th, .11 of an inch on the 26th, and .05 of an inch on the 2oth. 
The total rainfall recorded for the month was 1.17 inches 
and the showers were quite evenly distributed through the month. 
One heavy shower was recorded on the Ist day of September 
amounting to .go of an inch, but for the rest of the month less 
than one half inch was recorded and this in very light showers 
distributed as follows: .o3 of an inch on the 2d, .03 of an inch 
on the 3d, .o2 of an inch on the 5th, .o4 of an inch on the 6th, 
.13 of an inch on the oth, and .20 of an inch on the 26th. The 
total rainfall recorded for September was 1.35 inches of which 
1.15 fell up to and including the oth, leaving only .20 of an inch 
for the last twenty-one days of the month. 
One shower was recorded during the first half of October 
amounting to .15 of an inch on the 7th of the month. The 
weather continued to be dry until the 19th when a heavy rain- 
fall was recorded beginning a little before midnight on the 19th 
and extending over the 20th. On the morning of the 2oth 1.75 
inches were recorded and the long drought broken. 
The summer drought extended from the 19th of June to the 
19th of October. During this period of four months 3.35 inches 
of rainfall was recorded. The average precipitation recorded at 
the Garden for the months of July, August and September for 
1905 to 1909 inclusive was 12.60 inches. The rainfall recorded 
during the same months for 1910 was 3.16 inches 
. J. SEAVER. 
NOTES, NEWS AND COMMENT. 
Dr. W. A. Murrill, assistant director, sailed for Europe Octo- 
ber 1. He will visit many of the larger museums and herbaria 
to examine type specimens of fungi. 
Mr. Fred J. Seaver, director of the laboratories, recently 
returned from a collecting trip in Colorado. About nine hundred 
collections of fungi were made in the Rocky Mountains near 
Denver, at altitudes ranging from 6,000 to 14,000 feet. 
