JOURNAL 
OF 
The New York Botanical Garden 
VoL. IV. April, 1903. No. 40. 
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 5.32 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 spring 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 o’clock, as follows: April 18, “A 
Tour of American Deserts,” by Dr. D. T. MacDougal ; April 25, 
“The Vegetation of the Florida Keys,” by Dr. M. A. Howe; 
May 2, “The Framework of Plants,” by Dr. H. M. Richards ; 
May 9, “ Illustration of Some Features of the West Indian Flora,” 
by Dr. N. L. Britton; May 16, “The Food Supply of Young 
Plants,” by Prof. F. E. Lloyd; May 30, ‘‘ The Color Variations 
of Flowers,” by Dr. C. C. Curtis; June 6, The Streams, Lakes 
and Flowers of the Upper Delaware, and the Story of the Sun- 
dew,” by Mr. Cornelius Van Brunt; June 13, “ Vegetable 
Foods,” by Dr. H. H. Rusby. 
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