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part of the depression, from the present water level of the lake 
down to the rock bed of the original stream. 
Perhaps in the course of time the lake may become filled up, 
either by the slow operation of natural causes or by reason of the 
exigencies of civilization, and the tussocks and broken branches 
and impressions of leaves in the layers of silt will be buried and 
forgotten or perhaps preserved for some future geologist to 
unearth and interpret. Artuur HOotticx, 
alssistant Curator, 
NOTES, NEWS AND COMMENT. 
Dr. Forrest Shreve of Johns Hopkins University, has been ap- 
pointed Laboratory Assistant in the New York Botanical Garden, 
detailed for ne duty at the adie mae at Cinchona, 
Jamaica. Dr, Shreve has also been awarded the Bruce Fellow- 
ship in isles by Johns Hopkins oa a plans to 
spend the winter of 1905-6 in some investigations in Jamaica 
Professor Raymond H. Pond, of Northwestern University, has 
been granted a research scholarship for three months and is car- 
rying on some investigations upon the enzymes in seeds at the 
Garden 
Dr. P. A. Rydberg, Assistant Curator, went to Utah early in 
June, and will spend several weeks in the investigation of the 
of the region west and southwest of Salt Lake City as an 
extension of his work on the Flora of the Rocky Mountains, 
which has been in progress for several years. 
Mr. Geo. V. Nash, Head Gardener, and Mr. Norman Taylor, 
Garden Aid, started for Hayti on June 6, to carry on some ex- 
plorations in the northern part of the Island. 
Mr. L. R. Abrams, Fellow in Columbia ian eae who has 
been engaged in an investigation of the flora of southern Cali- 
fornia at the Garden during the last two years has been ap- 
pointed assistant curator in botany at the National Museum at 
Washington. 
The total He ie in the Garden during June, 1905, 
amounted to 4.01 es. Maximum temperatures of 8134° on 
