Dr. L. M. Underwood, Professor of Botany in Columbia Uni- 

 versity and Chairman of the Board of Scientific Directors of the 

 Garden, died at his home in Redding, Connecticut, on Saturday, 

 November 16. 



Dr. Raymond H. Pond, who has been studying at the Garden 

 during the past year, sailed for Europe on November 7 to spend 

 several months in visiting German botanical laboratories. 



Dr. Murrill visited the Biltmore Forest School, at Biltmore, 

 North Carolina, in October, where he secured collections of 

 Polyporaceae and made some observations on diseases of trees. 



Dr. M. A. Howe and Mr. Percy Wilson sailed for the Bahamas 

 on November 15. They have planned to spend several weeks 



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The regular autumn exhibition of the Horticultural Society of 

 New York was held at the Garden on November 1 3 and 14. An 

 attractive display of varieties of apples was a feature of the exhi- 

 bition. At the meeting on November 13 addresses were made 

 by Messrs. Hedrick and Fullerton. 



Professor C. F. Baker, for three years past chief of the depart- 

 ment of botany in the Estacion Central Agronomica, at Santiago 

 de las Vegas, Cuba, has been appointed curator of the herbarium 

 and botanic garden at the Museu Goeldi, Para, Brazil. His 

 special work there will be the further development of the her- 

 barium and garden at Para, and the botanical exploration of some 

 of the most interesting parts of the Amazon valley. Professor 

 Baker visited the Garden on November 20, on his way to Brazil. 



The brook running through the center of the herbaceous 

 grounds, which was becoming wider than first designed by the 

 squeezing out of soil from its sides into the water by the crowds 

 of people walking along its banks, making it necessary to deepen 

 it continually for several years, has been made permanent this fall 

 by the construction of a loose stone wall along each side rising 

 to about the water level ; this construction will make the care of 



