jefore the end of the year, but work will have to be suspended 

 luring the winter, so it is not expected that the bridge will be 

 :ompleted before May or June of 1907. Its length is 172 feet 

 ind its width 1 5 feet. 



The necessary grading preliminary to the planting of the eco- 

 nomic garden in the north end of the valley east of the museum 

 building has been completed, and the planting itself has been 

 commenced. The design of this plantation is to exhibit plants 

 whose products are utilized in the arts, sciences and industries, 

 and they will be grouped as food plants, drug plants, fiber plants, 

 and plants yielding other useful products. The development of 

 this portion of the grounds opens up the whole of the long 

 valley, the southern and middle portions of which are already 

 occupied by herbaceous plantations. 



Much progress has been made during the autumn in laying 

 the foundations for paths in various parts of the grounds, espe- 

 cially in the vicinity of the lakes northeast of the museum build- 

 ing, at the northeast end of the fruticetum,' and about the 

 economic garden. The grading and sodding necessary in estab- 

 lishing the grades of these paths has also been mainly completed. 



NOTES, NEWS AND COMMENT. 



Dr. N. L. Britton spent a few days during the latter part of 

 October at the National Herbarium in Washington. He was 

 accompanied by Mr. Percy Wilson. 



Dr. J. K. Small left for Southern Florida on October 23, ac- 

 companied by Mr. J. J. Carter. Dr. Small will continue his 

 important investigations of the flora of this region, which has 

 already yielded so much that is new and interesting. 



The regular bi-weekly conferences held at the Garden on 

 Wednesday afternoons, alternating with meetings of the Torrey 

 Botanical Club, were inaugurated for the present season on Oc- 

 tober 17, with "Recent Explorations in Jamaica," the principal 

 speakers being Dr. Britton, Dr. Underwood and Mrs. Britton. 



