=cting and studying marine algae in Kingston Harbor and 

 icinity and at Montego Bay. When the disastrous earthquake 

 if January 14 occurred, he was at Montego Bay, where the shock 

 vas comparatively light. His Kingston collections, which were 

 tored at the time in a wooden office building on the water-front 

 >f that ill-fated city, were uninjured by the earthquake and es- 



In connection with the New York meeting of the American 

 \ssociation for the Advancement of Science, during Convoca- 

 ion Week, 1906- 1 907, an exhibition was held at the American 

 December 28 to January 14, 



Museum of Natural Histor; 

 by the New York Academ 

 exhibition was to illustrate 

 different branches of scier 

 botany consisted of C. Stuai 

 Atkinson, William L. Bray, 

 Ferguson, Byron David Hal 



if Sci( 



The purpos 



e. The Associate Committee for 

 Gager (Charman), George Francis 

 [ohn Merle Coulter, Margaret Clay 

 ed, Edward Charles Jeffrey, Duncan 

 [. Underwood. The botanical ex- 



of her 



> thro 



:opic prep- 



•phology, taxonomy, paleobotany, 

 >gy, horticulture, the pedagogy of 

 of botanical gardens and labora- 

 tories. There was a total of about forty-five entries, making 

 the botany exhibit the largest, but one, of the exhibition. 



Of the precipitation for January, 13^ inches of snow fall were 

 recorded in addition to 

 tures were recorded of 58 on the 4th, 67. 5 on the 7th, 52. 

 on the 20th, and 37 on the 22d. Also minimum temperatu: 

 of 27.5 on the 6th, 16.5 on the 10th, 10° on the 17th, 0° 

 the 24th, and n° on the 31st. 



