The museum building is reached by the Harlem Division of 

 the New York Central and Hudson River Railway to the Botan- 

 ical Garden Station, by trolley cars to Bedford Park, or by the 

 Third Avenue Elevated Railway to Botanical Garden, Bronx 



NOTES, NEWS AND COMMENT. 

 Dr. E. B. Copeland, of the Bureau of Education of the Philip- 

 pine Islands, called at the Garden on April I. 



Dr. Kristine Bonnevie, Konservator at the University of Kris- 

 Professor A. W. Evans spent a few days at the Garden during 

 the last week in March, consulting the Mitten collection of mosses, 

 recently acquired by the Garden Herbarium. 



Professor Edward A. White, of the Department of Botany, 

 Forestry, and Landscape Architecture of the Connecticut Agri- 

 cultural College, Storrs, Conn., was at the Garden on March 29, 

 consulting the Herbarium. Professor White removes to the 

 Massachusetts Agricultural College on July 1, where he has 

 been appointed to the newly established professorship of flori- 

 culture. 



Dr. Melville T. Cook, who has been pursuing investigations 

 in the laboratories of the garden during the preceding three 

 months, has received an appointment, under the Adams act, as 

 Plant Pathologist at the Delaware Agricultural Experiment Sta- 

 tion, Newark. The appointment took effect on April 1. Dr. 

 Cook will at once enter upon a study of fruit diseases, giving 

 special attention to the crown-gall affecting the genus Rubus. 



The New York Academy of Sciences will commemorate on 

 May 23, the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of Linnaeus. 

 In the morning of that day there will be addresses at the Ameri- 

 can Museum of Natural History and an exhibition of animals, 

 minerals, and rocks known at the time of Linnaeus ; in the 

 afternoon, in Bronx Park, there will be addresses and exhibits at 

 the Botanical Garden and the Zoological Park and the dedication 



