in New York he has bsen a registered candidate for the degree 

 of Doctor of Philosophy at Columbia University, and this degree 

 was awarded him at the commencement ceremonies on June 13, 

 this monograph of Chara being accepted as his dissertation. It 

 is published in the Bulletin of the Garden, 4 : 244. 1906. 

 N. L. Britton. 



NOTES, NEWS AND COMMENT. 

 Construction work is proceeding this spring at a number of 

 points north and east of the museum building. The Mosholu 

 Parkway approach is now nearly completed, the driveway and 

 paths at that point only requiring surfacing with broken stone 

 and screenings already ordered, and the use of a steam roller for 

 a few days ; the main east and west park driveway leading from 

 this approach around the valley of the lakes and across the 

 long bridge over the valley of the Bronx is in the same ad- 

 vanced stage of completion, also needing only its final surfacing. 

 The gap in the border screen along the railroad at the end of 

 the valley of the lakes has been closed by regulating and grad- 

 ing, and the planting of a heavy belt of conifers and deciduous 

 trees and shrubs, and considerable planting has been done at 

 both sides of the Mosholu Parkway approach. At the approach 

 to the Woodlawn Road entrance, the filling for the driveway is 

 still in progress, and nearly completed, and stone for the telford 

 foundation is being assembled there, though it will be best to 

 give this fill considerable more time for settling before paving 

 this road ; the path connection of this entrance to the south has 

 been completed and much planting of shrubs effected along it, 

 and also throughout the fruticetum. At the lake bridge, just 

 east of the museum building, much additional filling and grad- 

 ing has been done, and the paths leading to this bridge both 

 from north and south are under construction ; this work has 

 necessitated the letting off of the water in both lakes for a time. 

 The filling for the path approaches to the long bridge has been 

 completed and these paths can be laid up within a few months. 



