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and reporting upon the fossil flora of Alaska, for the United 
States Geological Survey. The work was prosecuted at the U.S, 
National Museum. A paper entitled ‘Results of a Preliminary 
Study of the So-called Kenai Flora of Alaska,’’ based upon the 
above mentioned investigation was read at the Pittsburgh meet- 
ing of the oe. Society of America and subsequently 
printed in the American Journal of Science 31: 327-330, April, 
19it. The bulk of the material studied was collected by Dr. 
Hollick during his trip down the Yukon valley in 1903. 
Dr. Marshall A. Howe, curator, represented the Garden at 
the sixth annual meeting of the American Association of Mu- 
seums, held in Boston and vicinity, May 23-27. About one 
hundred delegates from the principal museums of the United 
States were in attendance. Meetings for the reading and dis- 
cussion of papers and for the transaction of business were held 
in Boston at the Museum of Fine Arts and at the Museum of the 
Boston Society of Natural History; in Cambridge, at the Fogg 
Museum of Art of Harvard University; and in Salem, at the 
Peabody Museum. Visits were made to the Museum of the 
Harvard Medical School, to the Arnold Arboretum, and to various 
other museums of Harvard University. Parties were also organ- 
ized to visit the museums at Worcester, Andover, and Lancaster. 
The American Association of Museums, though now only five 
years of age, is exerting an important influence in developing, 
eri and sea the educational and research work 
the American museum 
Meteorology for May.—The total precipitation for the month 
was 1.31 inches. Maximum temperatures were recorded of 82° 
on the 7th, 86.5° on the roth, 85° on the 18th, and 86° on the 22d. 
Also minimum temperatures were recorded of 32° on the 4th, 41° 
on the 15th, 52.5° on the 16th, and 51° on the 24th. 
Meteorology for June—The total precipitation for the month 
was 4.94 inches. Maximum temperatures were recorded of 85° 
on the 2d, 90° on the roth, and 91° on the 20th, and 28th. Also 
minimum temperatures were recorded of 51° on the 4th, 55° on 
the 6th, 50° on the 17th, and 54.5° on the 22d. 
