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any other mountain, but returned to Salt Lake City. Here I 
stayed only one day to arrange our affairs, and returned to New 
York 
P. A. RypBErG, 
Assistant Curator. 
NOTES, NEWS AND COMMENT. 
Dr E, J. Durand, of Cornell University, was at the Garden 
during two weeks in September, carrying on some special work 
on i. 
Dr. B. E. Livingston, of the Bureau of Soils, U. S. Depart- 
ment of Agriculture, Washington, D. C., spent September at the 
Garden upon some i Ce ee ot the effect of water of swamps 
and bogs upon the eas of plants. 
Professor McCloskey, of Princeton University, spent a few 
days at the Garden during the last month consulting the library. 
Mr. Perley Spaulding, of the Bureau of Plant Industry, Wash- 
ington, D. C., spent a few days at the Garden in the latter part 
of September, in an examination of the Polyporaceae. 
The total precipitation in the Garden during September, 1905, 
amounted to 6.09 inches. Maximum temperatures of 84° on the 
roth, 83° on the 13th, 84° on the 22d, and 89° on the 3oth, 
m os 
ACCESSIONS. 
LIBRARY ACCESSIONS FROM JULY 15 TO SEPTEMBER 23. 
BECK VON MANNAGETTA, G flora von eee der Herzegowina 
und des Sandzaks Novipasar. I. Wien, 1904. (Given by . M. Underwood, ) 
BECK VON MANNAGETTA, GUNTHER RITTER. pai a argh des 
a hiaialae edition, Wien, 1905. (Given by Dr, L. M. Underwood. 
roteria. Vol. Lisboa, 1902. 
Burr, aia oo The field and garden. Boston, 1865. (Given by Mr. 
Martin Ejic 
aaa Cart, Jndex flicum, Fasciculus 1-3. Hafniae, 1905. 
CLEMENTS, FREDERIC Epwarp. Research methods in ecology. Lincoln, 1905. 
