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Dr. Ezra Brainerd, of Middlebury, Vermont, spent two days 
at the Garden in February, in continuation of his work on 
violets. 
Dr. and Mrs. N. L. Britton sailed February 18 for Cuba, 
where they will spend several weeks in a continuation of their 
botanical explorations in the West Indies. 
At the annual! meeting of the Connecticut Botanical Club held 
in New Haven, January 28, Mr. Norman Taylor delivered a 
lecture on ‘Some Distribution Factors in our Local Flora.” 
Dr. W. C. Coker, professor of botany in the State University 
of North Carolina, recently spent several days at the Garden, 
continuing his work in the flora of North Carolina. 
W. W. Eggleston, of the U. S. Department of Agricul- 
ture, cease scholar at the Garden during the past month, 
recently spent several days consulting types in the Gray her- 
barium. 
Miss Mary P. Anderson has resumed her studies at the Garden 
n the ‘Distribution of Ferns in Japan,” 
several month 
after an absence of 
Dr. Marie rates formerly lecturer in fossil botany at Man- 
chester University, England, spent a week at the Garden in 
February consulting the library and collections of fossil plants 
with special reference to the plants of the Cretaceous Period 
Dr. C. F. Millspaugh, curator of the department of botany in 
the Field Museum, Chicago, spent a few days at the Garden in 
February on his way to the West Indies where he will continue 
his explorations on the flora of the Bahamas 
Meteorology for January—The total precipitation recorded 
for the month was 1.72 inches. Maximum temperatures were 
recorded of 51° on the 2d, 53° on the 3d, 47° on = 10th, 46° on the 
2Ist, and 52° on the 27th. Also minimum peratures were 
recorded of 11° on the 5th and 18th, 16° on ee 24th, and 17° 
on the 31st. 
