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Indian exploring expeditions with type specimens in the Old 
World collections. 
Professor L. M. Underwood has gone to Europe and will attend 
the International Botanical Congress in Vienna early in June, and 
spend the remainder of the summer studying the collections at 
Kew and Berlin. 
r Barnhart has gone to Europe and will attend the 
inteatonal Botanical Congress at Vienna as a delegate from the 
New York Botanical Garden. 
The fifth Spring exhibition of the Horticultural aa of 
New York was held in the Museum of the 
and 11,1905. Prizes pee a to ce were offered by a 
Garden. The exhibition was characterized by a good represen- 
tation of native wild plants. 
The fifth summer exhibition will be held in the Museum, on 
Wednesday and Thursday, June - and 15. The schedule of 
prizes offered includes roses, flowering shrubs, native flowers and 
ferns, peonies, iris, strawberries we vegetables. Prizes amount- 
ing to about $150.00 are offered by the ere of the New 
York Botanical Garden, and $130.00 by the council of the Hor- 
ticultural Society. In addition, premiums and certificates are 
provided for meritorious exhibits not included in the schedules. 
Professor F. E. Lloyd has received a grant of $500 from the 
Carnegie Institution as an aid to his investigations of the trans- 
piration of desert plants. He will spend the summer at the 
Desert Laboratory at Tucson, Arizona. 
Miss A. A. Knox formerly assistant in botany in Barnard College 
has been appointed assistant in the laboratories in the Garden, 
and took up her new duties on June 1. 
The total precipitation in the Garden for May, 1905, amounted 
to 1.05 inches. Maximum temperatures of 85.5° on the 6th, 
78° onthe roth, 76° on the 15th and 80° on the 22d were ob- 
served ; also minima of 30° on the 2d, 42.5” on the roth, 39.5° 
on the 21st and 40° on the 24th 
