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Engler and Prantl in their Nattirlichen Pflanzenfamilien on which 
all the collections of the Garden are arranged, and then with- 
draw such plates as will strengthen exhibits in the public 
Museums, and others will be used in connection with the collec- 
tions and herbarium. J. K. Smart. 
NOTES, NEWS, AND COMMENT. 
Professor W. W. Rowlee, of Cornell University, spent a few 
days during June at the Garden making a critical examination of 
some material recently secured by him from the Isle of Pines. 
Professor J. E. Kirkwood, of Syracuse University, is in resi- 
dence at the Garden for the purpose of completing his studies 
upon the embryology of the Cucurbitaceae begun some time 
since. 
Miss W. Robinson, instructor in biology at Vassar College, 
occupies a table in the Laboratories during June and July for the 
purpose of making some studies of the ferns of North America 
and prosecuting some physiological researches. 
The Alabama Polytechnic Institute has recently conferred the 
degree of M.A. on Professor F. S. Earle, assistant curator in the 
New York Botanical Garden, in recognition of his extensive re- 
searches in the fungi and in plant pathology. 
Professor A. W. Evans, of Yale University, and Mr. Percy 
Wilson, of the New York Botanical Garden, have gone to Porto 
Rico to make some further investigations and collections of the 
flora of that island for the New York Botanical Garden. Special 
attention will be given to the small area of primitive forest yet 
remaining on the island. 
The total amount of precipitation in the Garden during June, 
1902, amounted to 5.65 inches. Maximum temperatures of 
92.5% on the 3d, 86° on the 12th, 87.5° on the 16th were ob- 
served, and minima of 46.5° on the 16th, 50° on the 12th, 49° on 
the 23d, and 46° on the 24th were observed. 
The temperature of the soil, taken by the newly designed 
Hallock thermograph at a depth of a foot, ranged from 45° to 
55° F 
