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special attention to lichens. A set of these plants will be placed 
in the herbarium of the Garden. About 3,000 herbarium speci- 
mens were obtained during the course of the summer’s work, 
and a number of living plants were added to the growing collec- 
tions in the Garden. Much of the territory traversed had not 
been visited by a botanist before, and the results of our observa- 
tions should make many extensions in ranges of species, furnish 
material for the critical delimitation of forms but little known, and 
add to our knowledge of the plant geography of one of the most 
interesting regions in the Rocky mountain domain. 
Respectfully submitted, 
D. T. MacDovuaat. 
NOTES, NEWS AND COMMENT. 
Miss Maria Morgan has recently presented the Garden with a 
complete set of the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club. Al- 
though the Garden already possesses two sets of this periodical, 
we are very glad to have a third one, inasmuch as complete sets 
are now very difficult to obtain, and the volumes are consulted 
as much, perhaps, as any books in the library, herbarium or 
laboratories. The Badletin was founded in 1870, by Mr. William 
H. Leggett, from whom many of the present generation of New 
York botanists received their first interest and enthusiasm for 
their science ; it has been published monthly since its commence- 
ment and contains an invaluable store of botanical information ; it 
is now edited by a committee of the Club, Professor Undeswood 
being editor-in-chief. 
A recent and valuable addition to the library is the presentation 
by the Rev. Haslett McKim, of about ninety volumes, mainly on 
microscopy, which heretofore has been but poorly represented 
there. This gift includes sets of Zhe American Microscopical 
Journal, The Monthly Microscopical Journal of London, and of 
— fiir Mikroscopie und fiir Mikroskoptsche Technik, as well 
s complete set of Botanisches Ceutralblatt, which will be of great 
service in the laboratories. 
The total amount of precipitation in the Garden during Decem- 
