JOURNAL 
The New York Botanical Garden 
Vor. Ill. April, 1902. 
No, 28. 
RECEPTION DAYS AND LECTURES. 
The Director-in-Chief and other members of the staff will be 
pleased to receive members and their friends at the grounds in 
Bronx Park on every Saturday in April, May and June. 
Train leaves Grand Central Station, Harlem Division, N. Y. 
C. R. R., at 2.35 P. M. for Bronx Park. Returning train leaves 
Bronx Park at 5.42 P. M. Excursion fare 25 cents. 
Opportunity will be given for inspection of the Museums, Lab- 
oratories, Library and Herbarium, the large Conservatories, the 
Herbaceous Collection, the Hemlock Forest, the Fruticetum and 
parts of the Arboretum site. 
The spring course of lectures will be delivered in the Lecture 
Hall on the Museum Building of the Garden, Bronx Park, on 
Saturday afternoons, at 4.30 o'clock, as follows: 
April 19th, ‘The Maples and other Early-flowering Trees,”’ 
by Cornelius Van Brunt; April 26th, “ Plant Life of the Sea,” by 
Dr. Marshall A. Howe; May 3d, ‘‘ Botanical Features of Porto 
Rico,” by Professor L. M. Underwood; May roth, “ Some Ex- 
amples of Botany in its Relation to Geology,” by Dr. Arthur 
Hollick; May 17th, ‘‘ Wild Flowers, the Necessity for their 
Preservation,” by Mr. Cornelius Van Brunt; May 24th, ‘ The 
Cottons,” by Dr. H. H. Rusby ; May 31st, ‘‘ Cactuses and Cactus- 
like Plants,” by Dr. N. L. Britton; June 7th; ‘“ Favorite Flowers 
of Nations and Poets,’ by Professor E. S. Burgess; June 14th, 
‘‘ The Vegetation of American Deserts,” by Dr. D. T. MacDougal. 
The lectures will be illustrated by lantern slides and otherwise. 
They will close in time for auditors to take the 5.42 train from 
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