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Dr. N. L. Britton and Dr. Marshall A. Howe returned to the 
New York Botanical Garden on April 14 after a successful ex- 
pedition to eastern Jamaica, eastern Cuba, and the Florida Keys. 
Mrs. Britton, who was a member of the party, returned a few 
days earlier, A more detailed account of the expedition and its 
results will ie published in a later number of the JourNAL. 
We learn from Sczence that “The University of Michigan has 
acquired by gift of an alumnus, and from the City of Ann Arbor, 
a tract of land of about ee acres to serve as a botanical garden 
and arboretum. This land has an exceptional variety of soil, 
elevation and exposure, ae a border of over one half mile 
on the Huron River.” 
Dr. Ezra Brainerd, of Middlebury College, Vermont, spent a 
a at the Garden early in March studying certain species of 
iolets. He was on his way to Florida to study the violets of 
i peninsula as part of his eds Suge preparatory to the com- 
pletion of a monograph of the violets of North America. On his 
return in April he spent ae day and reported interesting 
observations. 
18, completing Vol. V. of the Bulletin of the New 
York Botanical Garden was issued February 8, 1909. It contains 
the following papers: ‘Contributions to the Flora of the Ba- 
hamas—IV,” by N. L. Britton; “The Elgin Botanical Garden, 
its Later History, and Relation to Columbia College and the 
Vermont Land Controversy,” by Addison Brown; ‘“ The Genera 
of North American Gill Fungi,” by F. S. Earle. These papers 
were published in advance at considerable intervals, the first 
being distributed in pamphlet form as long ago as October 26, 
1907. 
mber 20, Vol. VI, of the Bulletin of the New York Botanical 
Garden, containing the annual reports of the Director-in-Chief 
and other official documents was issued March 23, 1 
Meteorology for March. — The total precipitation recorded for 
the month was 3.53 inches, including a snow-fall of 3 inches on 
the 4th and a light snow on the 30th. Maximum temperatures 
were recorded of 49.5° on the 2d, 68.5° on the roth, 51° on 
the 21st, and 56° on the 24th; also minimum temperatures of 
