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Opportunity will be given for inspection of the museum, labo- 
ratories, library and herbarium, the public conservatories, the 
ous eee the hemlock forest, and parts of the 
arboretum. The walk planned will be a little over a mile. 
The spring course of lectures will be delivered in the lecture 
hall, Museum of the Garden, on Saturday afternoons as follows : 
April 30, a the Land of Lacquer and Bamboo,” by Dr. 
C. F. Mills 
May 7, ae ‘Born, Habits and Relationships of the Cac- 
tuses,”” by Dr. N. L. Britton 
14, ‘The Vegetation of the Delta of the Colorado 
River, and of Baja California,” by Dr. MacDougal 
1, ‘‘ Explorations for Fossil Plants on the Yukon River, 
Alaska,” by Dr. Arthur Hollick. 
May 28, ‘Arctic and Alpine Plants,’’ by Professor F. E. 
Lloyd. 
June 4, ‘“ Carnivorous Plants,” by Professor H. M. Richards, 
The lectures will be illustrated by lantern slides and otherwise. 
They will close in time for auditors to take the 5:32 train from 
the Bronx Park railway station, arriving at Grand Central Sta- 
tion at 6:02 
The Museum Building is reached by Harlem Division, New 
York Central and Hudson River Railroad to Bronx Park Sta- 
tion, by trolley cars to Bedford Park, or by Elevated Railway to 
the Garden. 
NOTES, NEWS AND COMMENT. 
Dr. N. L. Britton and Dr. D. T. MacDougal have been ap- 
pointed associates in botany to the Station for Experimental 
Evolution of the Carnegie Institution at Cold Spring Harbor, 
Long Island. 
Professor Hugo de Vries, Director of the Botanical Garden at 
Amsterdam, Holland, is expected to be at the New York Bo- 
tanical Garden during the second week of June for the purpose 
of making an examination of the experimental cultures being 
made to test the mutation theory of the origin of species. 
