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offered as a thesis in Columbia University by Dr. F. D. Kern, 
associate botanist in Purdue University Agricultural Experiment 
tation, Indiana. The paper consists of 89 pages of text, eleven 
plates and 36 figures 
One of the principal longitudinal paths of the Garden, extend- 
ing from the Newell Avenue entrance, at Williarhsbridge, along 
the east side of the Bronx River, through the north meadows, 
the 
fe + Bridge, is approaching completion. A difficult and 
tedious piece of construction work for this path, for a distance 
of about five hundred feet, on the edge of the river at the foot 
of a steep bank north of the Long Bridge, has been successfully 
accomplished by building a rubble stone wall to carry the path, 
from stones and boulders which have been saved for the purpose 
from old stone walls and exposed by grading operations in various 
parts of the grounds; the foot of the steep earth slope above this 
path is supported by a low wall of boulders, parallel with the 
similar low wall along the west side of the river roa 
This river path will doubtless be a very popular and attractive 
walk, as soon as it can be opened to the public, connecting, as it 
will, with the trail leading south from the Boulder Bridge along 
the east side of the river, passing the Lorillard Mansion, where 
it leaves the Garden reservation, and continues on southward to 
the Linnaean Bridge at Pelham Avenue. It will afford a most 
attractive view of the scenery and the flora of the Bronx valley 
for over a mile. 
Meteorology for September —The total precipitation for the 
month was 1.55 inches. Maximum temperatures were recorded 
of 87.5° on the 2d and ioth, 85.5° on the 12th, and 89.5° on the 
20th. Also minimum temperatures were recorded of 57° on the 
gth, 38° on the 14th, and 53° on the 18th. 
