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The complete program for this exhibition and the rules and 
regulations governing it are now being printed and will be dis- 
tributed to all members of the Garden. 
NOTES, NEWS AND. COMMENT. 
The spring course of lectures and demonstrations to the 4B 
and 5B grades of the public schools of the Bronx, comprising 
fifteen lectures, began April 22. 
r. J. K. Small, head Curator of the museums and herbarium, 
visite — Washington late in April to examine specimens of the 
Malpighiaceae as which he is monographing ee ee 
American Flor 
r. M. A. am Curator, lectured before the Barnard Botan- 
ical Club, April 23, upon ‘“‘ The Plant Life of the 
Seventy-one packets of Japanese polypores were recently re- 
ceived for determination from Professors S. Kusano and S 
Nohara, of Tokyo Imperial University. This collection is the 
first of any importance to reach us from Japan, and it will throw 
light on the distribution of a number of species. A detailed 
account of it will shortly appear in Mycologia. The specimens 
will become a permanent addition to the Garden herbarium. 
Miss Emilia Noel, a granddaughter of the Earl of Gains- 
borough and a member of the Linnean Society of London, 
visited the Garden on April 22, She has traveled in central 
Africa in connection with her botanical studies. While in this 
country she expects to visit the Grand Cafion of the Colorado, 
Yellowstone Park, California, and various botanical laboratories 
and museums, 
Professor Edward C. Jeffrey, of Harvard University, visited 
New York during the latter part of April and spent four days in 
field work with Dr. Arthur Hollick, collecting lignites in the 
Cretaceous clays of New Jersey and Staten Island. Further in- 
rea material of this kind was thus added to the museum 
collectio 
