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Sept. 23. “The Vegetation of the Dismal Swamp of Virginia,’’ 
Dr. Arthur Hollick. 
Sept. 30. ‘The Bo of pe re as of the New York 
Botanical Garden,’’ Dr. N. L on. 
Oct. “Some Scenic aie nae Features of Cuba,’’ Dr. 
Marshall A. Howe. 
Oct. 14. ‘The Movements of Plants,’’ Dr. C. C. Curtis. 
ct. 21. ‘‘Some Types of Variegated Plants,’’ Prof. R. A. 
Harper. 
Oct. 28. ‘The Methods of Detecting Adulteration in Food 
and Drugs,’’ Dr. H. H. Rusby. 
The lectures, which 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. 
NOTES, NEWS AND COMMENT. 
Dr. Charles E. Fairman, of Lyndonville, N. Y., spent several 
days at the Garden in August, consulting the library and collec- 
tions of fungi. 
Mr. B. O. Dodge, accompanied by Mrs. Dodge, recently spent 
several days in Bermuda collecting fungi and algae. 
ydberg, curator, returned September 18 from a 
a months collecting trip in southeastern Utah. 
R. C. Benedict, who has recently been appointed instructor 
in ene in New York University, has been awarded a research 
scholarship at the Garden for a part of the months of August and 
September. 
r. Wilmer G. Stover, a graduate of Miami University, hae 
and ie student at the New York Botanical Garde as 
been appointed instructor in botany in the State re oe 
College at Stillwater, Oklakoma, for the coming year. 
The water lilies in the court of conservatory no. I are especially 
fine at present, particularly the tender sorts in the western pool. 
A novelty in this pool is the new one in the center, with large blue 
flowers, Grosherzog Ernst Ludwig. This resembles Pennsylvania 
