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July 15, “Plant Diseases and their Control,” by Mr. Fred J. 
Seaver. 
July 22, ‘The Uses of the Cacti,” by Dr. H. H. Rusby. 
July 29, “Plants as Insect-traps,” by Dr. John H. Barnhart. 
Aug. 5, “The Vegetation of the Dismal Swamp of Virginia,” 
by Dr. Arthur Hollick. 
Aug. 12, ‘‘ The Paris Botanical Garden,” by Dr. W. A. Murrill. 
Aug. 2 ‘* A Visit to the Panama Canal Zone,” by Dr. Marshall 
A. How 
Aug oe Co soa Their Uses in the Landscape,” by Mr. 
Soe V.N 
The nae ehh occupy an hour, will be illustrated by 
lantern slides and otherwise. The doors will be closed at 4:00, 
and opened again at 4:15 to admit those arriving late. 
The Museum Building is reached by the Harlem Division of 
the New York Central and Hudson River Railway to Botanical 
Garden Station, by trolley cars to Bedford Park, or by the nee 
Avenue Elevated Railway to Botanical Garden, Bron 
Visitors coming by the subway change to the Elevated ee 
at 149th Street and Third Avenue. 
NOTES, NEWS AND COMMENT. 
Dr. F. E. Clements, professor of botany in the University of 
Minnesota, accompanied by Mrs. Clements, were visitors at the 
Garden on June 17. 
Dr. W. A. Murrill, assistant director, spent ah . and 6 at 
Albany consulting types of fungi in the State Mus 
Dr. R. A. Harper, professor of botany in the Uae of 
Wisconsin, was a recent visitor at the Garden. 
Dr. Chas. H. Thom, of the Connecticut Agricultural Experi- . 
ment Station, recently spent several days at the Garden consult- 
ing literature pertaining to his work on certain groups of the 
lower fungi 
Mr. Edward C. Johnson, pathologist in charge of cereal disease 
work, Bureau of Plant Industry, Washington, D. C., spent a 
