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Mr. Wladimir H. Lipsky, the well-known Russian botanist 

 and botanical explorer, recently spent several days at the Garden 

 examining the library and collections. 



The nature-study lectures and demonstrations for the benefit 

 of pupils of the public schools in the borough of the Bronx and 

 a portion of Manhattan closed for the spring term on June 4, to 

 be continued in the autumn. 



A collection of fossil gums containing some very rare and 

 choice specimens has just been presented to the Garden by 

 Messrs. G. W. S. Patterson & Co. of this city. A description of 

 this collection will be published at an early date. 



The total precipitation recorded for May, 1907, was 4.05 inches. 

 Maximum temperatures were recorded of 72° on the 10th, 83 

 on the 14th, 70 on the 24th, and 71 ° on the 30th ; also mini- 

 mum temperatures of 34 on the 5th, 30° on the 12th, 44 on 

 the 1 8th, 37 on the 22d, and 41° on the 28th. 



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