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Prof. W. C. Coker, of the University of North Carolina, is in 
residence at the Garden carrying on further investigations on the 
f the Carolinas. 
At the annual meeting of the Horticultural Society of New 
York, held on May 12, Mr. George V. Nash, head gardener, 
was elected secretary. 
Mr. Norman hae assistant curator, delivered an illustrated 
a lecture on the care and protection of trees, at Yonkers, 
n Fr nee evening, May 7. The lecture was given 
at ae pene of the Civic League, which is starting a cam- 
paign for the benefit of the trees of Yonkers. 
Eight specimens of African rubber plants and rubbers were 
recently presented to the Economic Museum by Mr. I. H. 
Hunicke, who has traveled extensively in eastern Africa. 
Mr. J. J. Carter, of Pleasant Grove, Pennsylvania, who accom- 
panied Dr. Small in several exploring expeditions to southern 
Florida recently spent several days at the Garden. 
An important and interesting paper on the Timbers of ae 
was st ees contributed by Mr. William Harris, of Hope 
to the West Indian Bulletin (9: 297-328. 1909). 
The Dutchess County Horticultural Society visited the Garden 
on Thursday, May 27, arriving about noon. Between forty and 
fifty members were expected, but owing to the inclemency of the 
weather only twenty-seven came. Starting with the large con- 
servatories, various parts of the grounds were visited, including 
the pinetum, herbaceous grounds, hemlock forests, new conser- 
vatories, fruticetum, and museum building. 
The recent course of fifteen lectures to the pupils of the 4 B 
and 5 B grades of the public schools of the Borough of the 
Bronx was attended by 8,500 children, accompanied by 280 
teachers. Only two lectures were postponed on account of in- 
clement weather. 
Mr. d J. Seaver spent May 6 in the Museum of Natural 
History at Philadelphia looking over types of fungi in the 
Schweinitz collection. Nineteen types were examined and per- 
