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abundant opportunities to observe the vegetation of the coastal 
region, and to acquire an accurate knowledge of the coastal plants, 
which formed the basis of his Sketch of the Botany of South 
Carolina and Georgia. A day was given to the study of the 
herbarium of Robert Peter, which is in an excellent state of 
preservation at the State College, Lexington, Kentucky. 
At a meeting of the Board of Managers held October 14, 1909, 
the director-in-chief was authorized to arrange occasional “ Visit- 
ing Days” on which members of the corporation will be received 
at the Garden by members of the staff and escorted through the 
grounds and buildings, thus providing opportunity for inspection 
of the collections and of work in progress. Such an occasion 
was arranged for the afternoon of Thursday, October 21. 
The Garden has recently acquired by gift through the courtesy 
of the Peary Arctic Club from the American Museum of Natural 
History, a valuable collection of herbarium specimens made on 
the late expedition of Comm. Robert E. Peary to the North Pole. 
The specimens were mostly collected by Dr. J. W. Goodsell. 
While some of the plants were gathered on the northern coast of 
Labrador, the majority were obtained on Grant Land in the 
northern portion of Ellesmere Land, an island west of Greenland. 
One of the packages contains specimens from perhaps the most 
northern locality where flowering plants have ever been found, 
while another is from Etah, the most northern habitation of man. 
Duplicates from this collection will be mounted and exhibited 
at the American Museum of Natural History in Esquimaux Hall. 
Meteorology for October.—The total precipitation for the 
month was .97 inch. The first fall frost of the season occurred 
about the middle of the month. Maximum temperatures were 
recorded of 78° on the 7th, 81.5° on the oth, 74.5° on the 11th, 
1.5° on the 22d and 69° on the 31st. Also minimum tempera- 
tures were recorded of 42.5° on the 6th, 33° on the 14th, 27.5° 
on the 2oth and 31° on the 30th. The mean temperature for the 
month was 56.25°. 
