JOURNAL 
The New York Botanical Garden 
Vou. ou. Il. conn 1902. No. 34, 
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 October and November. 
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 5.28 P. M. Excursion fare, 25 cents. 
Opportunity will be given for inspection of the Museums, 
Laboratories, Library and Herbarium, the large Conservatories, 
the Herbaceous Collection, the Hemlock Forest, the Fruticetum 
_and parts of the Arboretum site. 
The autumn course of lectures will be delivered in the Lecture 
Hall of the Museum Building of the Garden, Bronx Park, on 
Saturday afternoons, at 4.30. 0’clock, as follows : 
October 4, ‘‘ Jamaica, a Paradise for the Botanist,” by Hon. 
Wm. Fawcett, Director of the Public Gardens and Plantations of 
Jamaica. October 11, ‘‘ Health and Disease in Plants,” by Pro- 
fessor F. S. Earle. October 18, ‘‘ The Vegetation of Java,” 
by Dr. H. M. Richards. October 25, ‘‘Some Historic Trees,” 
by Professor L. M. Underwood. November 1, “A Meeting 
Place of Modern and Ancient Floras,”’ by Dr. Arthur Hol- 
lick. November 8, ‘‘ The Stonecrop Family,” by Dr. N. L. 
The lectures will be illustrated by lantern slides and otherwise. 
They will close in time for auditors to take the 5.28 train from 
the Bronx Park Railway Station, arriving at Grand Central Station 
at 5.57 P. M. 
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