r both the floristic and vegetative character of 

 Respectfully yours, 



NOTES, NEWS AND COMMENT. 



Dr. W. A. Cannon, member of the staff of the Desert Botan- 

 ical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution, at Tucson, Ariz., has 

 been in residence at the Garden during part of July and August, 

 occupied, in part, with a study of the comparative histology of 

 two species of the evening primrose (Oenothera) and their hy- 

 brid progeny. 



Miss Winifred J. Robinson, instructor in botany in Vassar 

 College, has been spending the summer at the Garden herbarium, 

 studying the fern flora of the Sandwich Islands. 



Professor Edward L. Bray, of the University of Texas, spent 

 the first week of August at the Garden, studying specimens of 

 Texan plants preserved in our collections, and consulting the 

 library. 



Mr. C. F. Baker, Botanist of the Cuban Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station, spent part of August at the Garden, consulting the 



The collection of drugs in the east hall of the economic mu- 



lated in the several series there represented. Several valuable 

 specimens were recently added to the exhibit of india rubber 

 and allied products in the west wing of the economic museum. 



In the systematic museum about two hundred specimens have 

 been recently incorporated in the exhibits of the synoptic collec- 

 tion. The red seaweeds of the local flora have been installed in 

 the swinging frames provided for them in this museum. 



In order to hasten the completion of the approach at the 

 Woodlawn Road entrance, paving the driveway at this point was 



for the telford foundation already assembled there, and bringing 



