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NOTES, NEWS AND COMMENT. 
Two more lectures are yet to be given in the autumn course: 
that of Prof. H. M. Richards on ‘ The effect of wounding on 
plants,” Nov. 12, and ‘“‘ Hybrids: their nature and behavior,” 
by Dr. D. T. MacDougal on Nov. I9. 
Dr. N. L. Britton, Director-in-Chief received the degree of 
Doctor of Science during the recent sesquicentennial celebration 
at Columbia University. 
e Department of Botany of Columbia University was 
awarded a gold medal for its botanical exhibit at the Louisiana 
Purchase Exposition. The exhibit consisted principally of mate- 
rial for demonstration and teaching arranged in Se frames 
ae with illustrations prepared by C. C. 
r. J. K. Small, Curator of the Museums, started for Florida 
on eee 28. He will spend a month in carrying out some 
investigations of the flora of that region. 
The Library has recently acquired a number of interesting and 
valuable books from the libraries of Mr. John J. Crooke and Mr. 
J. B. Ellis. From Mr. Crooke’s collection have come among 
other items the first twenty-eight volumes of the third series of 
Curtis’s Botanical Magazine, long a desiderata of the Library, a 
very fine copy of Abbot & Smith’s Natural History of the Rarer 
Lepidopterous Insects of Georgia, eu with the beautiful col- 
ored plates of plants and insects ; Nee n Esenbeck’s Flora 
Germanica; and a copy of the Seis issue a De Candolle & 
Redoute's ‘‘ Plantes Grasses.””. From Mr. Ellis’ library have been 
procured a copy of Saccardo’s Fungi Italici, a complete set of 
Berkeley’s ‘‘ Notices of British Fungi,” taken from the Annals of 
Natural History, anda large and valuable collection of over 1,100 
pamphlets on Fungi. 
The total precipitation in the Garden during October, 1904, 
amounted to 2.77 inches. Maximum temperatures of 75° on the 
3d, 80° on the roth, 83” on the 18th, and 67° on the 25th, were 
observed ; also minima of 4134° on the 2d, 321%° on the 7th, 
33° on the 23d, and 221° on the 31st. 
