Work is also going forward on the' telford foundations of the 

 driveway along the east side of the Bronx River to complete the 

 road connection between the east end of the long bridge and 

 the Newell Avenue entrance at the north end of the garden. In 



planting has been done during the spring at a number of points. 

 All the earth and stone required in this grading and path and 

 road building has been taken from the necessary excavations at 

 the rear of the museum building. 



The sixth annual meeting and exhibition of the Horticultural 

 Society of New York was held at the garden on May 9, and 

 the exhibition continued the next day. Dr. N. L. Britton 

 delivered an illustrated lecture on " Horticulture in the West 

 Indies." An important proposition came before the Council' of 

 the Society relative to organizing a conference on " Hardiness 

 and Acclimatization." to be held in the autumn of 1907.* 



Professor Howard J. Banker, of De Pauw University, is spend- 

 ing a portion of the summer vacation at the garden, working on 

 the herbarium collection of the Hydnaceae, with special attention 

 to the resupinate forms. Professor Banker was given the degree 

 of Doctor of Philosophy by Columbia University at the com- 

 mencement in June. His thesis, entitled, "A Contribution to 

 the Revision of the North American Hydnaceae," is devoted to 

 the pileate forms. The thesis is published as Memoir of the 

 Torrey Botanical Club, vol. 12, no. 2. The Hydnaceae are an 

 interesting family of fungi. 



The total precipitation at the garden for May was 4.61 -f inches. 

 Maximum temperatures were recorded of 77 on the 5th, 89" 

 on the 13th, 90 on the 18th, and 87° on the 24th. Also mini- 

 mum temperatures of 40.5 ° on the 4th, 36. 5 ° on the 10th, 42. 5 ° 

 on the 2 1 st, 43 ° on the 22d, and 44.5° on the 30th. 



