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> me that we may already detect evidences c 

 mpaign for plant protection, and that we ma; 

 >re important accomplishments in the future. 

 Respectfully submitted, 



Charles Louis Pollard, 



Secretary-Treasure, 



Wild Flower Preservation Society of Anrn 



NOTES, NEWS AND COMMENT. 



Dr. and Mrs. N. L. Britton will sail for Jamaica August 24. 



Professor F. S. Earle returned to Cuba August 10. 



Mr. W. R. Maxon spent several days at the Garden during 

 July and August studying the fern collections. 



Mr. Charles L. Pollard has recently been appointed Curator of 

 the Staten Island Association of Arts and Sciences. He will be 

 located in the new Richmond Borough Building, to which the 

 collections belonging to the Association will shortly be moved. 



Dr. H. H. Rusby, Curator of the Economic Collections, has 

 recently been appointed official expert in drug products to the 

 United States Government, his chief duties being to determine 

 whether or not importations are true to name and suitable for use 

 in medicinal preparations. Dr. Rusby has for nearly two years 

 occupied a similar position with the Department of Health of this 

 city, in which the drugs and medicines sold here were tested and 

 passed upon by him as to quality. 



Among recent visitors at the Garden were Professor Douglas 

 H. Campbell, of Stanford University, California; Dr. H. N. 

 Whitford, of the Bureau of Forestry of the Philippine Islands ; 

 Dr. C. D. Howe, of the Biltmore School of Forestry, North 

 Carolina ; Dr. D. T. MacDougal, of the Carnegie Institution of 

 Washington ; Professor and Mrs. T. D. A. Cockerell, of Boulder, 

 Colorado ; Dr. J. McK. Cattell, of New York ; Professor Duncan 

 S. Johnson, of the Johns Hopkins University ; and Professor 

 William Bateson, of the University of Cambridge, England. 



