JOURNAL 
The New York Botanical Garden 
VoL. VI. August, 1905. No. 68. 
REPORT ON A TRIP TO EUROPE. 
To tue Screntiric Direcrors. 
Gentlemen: By authority of the Board of Managers, I was 
absent from the Garden during the period between May 27 and 
July 15, for the purposes of visiting certain European botanical 
gardens and museums, and of attending the international congress 
of botany held at Vienna, June 11 to 18. I was accompanied by 
Mrs. Britton. 
Reaching Paris, via Cherbourg, on June 4, I reéxamined the 
collections at the Jardin des Plantes ; their general arrangement 
been changed materially in recent years, but I observed 
many species of plants for the first time, and studied some type 
specimens in the herbarium. M. Bureau, the Director, received 
me with great cordiality and we arranged for some additional 
exchanges of duplicate specimens. 
A feature of the educational work of the Jardin, which I had 
he opportunity to observe, is their arrangements for Sunday 
afternoon lectures to the people, on topics of general interest. 
They have a separate building, containing an amphitheatre, in 
which these lectures (termed here conferences) are delivered. 
Admission is by tickets issued for each course. he subject for 
June 4 was ‘The Importance of the Cryptogams in Nature,” 
and it was charmingly treated by M. Mangin, fully illustrated by 
lantern slides, by specimens selected from the museums an 
living plants from the greenhouses, very similarly to our lectures 
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