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part of the day, June 20, looking over smuts and rusts in the 
Garden collections. 
Dr. W. C. Coker, professor of botany in the University of 
North Carolina, spent several days at the Garden in June, in 
continuation of his work on the flora of North Carolina. 
. Rankin, fellow in Plant Pathology at Cornell 
iiniversity, made his headquarters at the Garden during most 
of May, while beginning an investigation of the chestnut canker 
with special reference to its control in New York state. 
Volume 25, part 3, of North American Flora, containing 
Rutaceae and Surianaceae by Mr. Percy Wilson, Simaroubaceae 
by Dr. J. K. Small and Burseraceae by Dr. J. N. Rose, was issued 
May 6, I9QII 
Owing to the dry weather in May, the plane-trees entirely 
escaped the blight (Gloeosportum nervisequum) which h 
attacked them severely during the last three seasons. 
The Municipal Engineers of the City of New York made a 
visit of inspection to the New York Botanical Garden on the 
afternoon of Saturday, June 17. At two o'clock, an n illustrated 
lecture he bse on of Shade Trees” was n by D 
W. A. Weal in the lecture hall of the museum ae ae 
the remainder of the afternoon was devoted to the inspection 
of the buildings and grounds under the guidance of members of 
the Garden staff. 
owell M. Palmer has recently presented to the Garden a 
siippismenesey collection of evergreen trees from the nurseries of 
his estate at Stamford, Conn., including some six hundred plants, 
mostly of small size, which have been placed in the nurseries of 
the Garden. It has been through Mr. Palmer’s previous liber- 
ality, through gifts of conifers, that the collections already 
planted out, surrounding conservatory range no. 1, have been 
secured, and the present gift will increase the representation of 
these trees eee The present spring has been unsuitable 
for the planting out of trees and shrubs, owing to the drought 
which continued through May. 
Dr. Arthur Hollick, curator, returned on May 17 from a six 
months’ leave of absence granted for the purpose of studying 
