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Oct. 24. ‘ Wild Autumnal Flowers and Fruits,” by Dr. N. 
L. Britton. 
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“ Plant Distabution as Interpreted by Geology,’’ by 
Dr. Aaa Hollick. 
Nov. 14. ‘‘ Botanical Cruises in the Bahamas,” by Dr. M. A. 
,’ by Dr. H. H. Rusby. 
The lectures will be illustrated by lantern slides and otherwise. 
They will close in time for auditors to take the 5: 34 train from 
the Botanical Garden Station, arriving at Grand Central Station 
at 6:04 
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 a the Third 
Ave’ i 
x Park. 
Visitors coming by the Subway change to the Elevated Raves 
at 149th Street and Third Avenue. 
NOTES, NEWS AND COMMENT. 
Professor John Dearness, of London, Ontario, visited the 
Garden on August 29. Professor Dearness has been an enthu- 
siastic collector of fungi in Canada and has contributed largely 
to the Ellis Collection, now deposited in the herbarium of the 
Garden. 
Mr. H. S. Jackson, of the Delaware Agricultural Experiment 
Station, spent over two weeks at the Garden in September com- 
pleting his list of the fungi of Delaware. The Ellis collection 
contains a large number of specimens collected in Delaware 
by Mr. Commons. 
Dr. Britton entertained the members of the Garden Staff on 
August 19, on the occasion of the departure of Dr. C. Stuart 
Gager for the University of Missouri. Dr. E. O. Hovey, of the 
