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NOTES, NEWS AND COMMENT. 
e autumn course of lectures to the 4 B and 5 B grades of 
the public schools of the Bronx, comprising fifteen lectures with 
accompanying demonstrations, began October 6 and will be 
concluded in November. The total attendance of pupils and 
vee at these exercises will reach twelve thousand. 
The entire collection of Boletaceae in the herbarium of Cornell 
University has recently been sent to the Garden for critical 
examination. This collection contains valuable material from 
Alabama, North Carolina, the Adirondacks, the Cayuga Lake 
Basin, Nova Scotia, Ohio, Michigan, and elsewhere, mostly col- 
lected by Professor Atkinson or his associates. A number of 
duplicate specimens have been presented to the Garden. 
Gray's New Manual of Botany has recently appeared in its 
seventh eee prepared by Professors B, L. Robinson and M. 
L. Fernald of Harvard University, with the collaboration of 
other ieees 
A field meeting of the members of the Department of Botany 
of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences was held at the 
Garden on the afternoon of Saturday, October 3, over forty ladies 
and gentlemen being in attendance. They were received by Dr. 
Britton, who spent the afternoon with them, describing the collec- 
tion of shrubs (fruticetum), and they were subsequently escorted . 
through other parts of the grounds and the public conservatories 
by Mr. Wilson 
Meteorology for September, — Total precipitation recorded for 
September 1.42 inches. Maximum temperatures were recorded 
of 84° on the 2d, 85° on the gth and 11th, 86° on the roth and 
41° onthe 29th. The mean temperature for the month was 63.5°. 
