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Mr. M. A. Howe, Assistant Curator, sailed on May 9 for Porto 
Rico. He will make an investigation of the algal flora of the 
coast of that island and will also visit some of the other islands in 
the West Indies for the purpose of making general collections, 
Miss W. J. Robinson, B.S., University of Michigan, 1899, in- 
structor in biology in Vassar College, has been granted a resident 
research scholarship in the Garden for three months beginning 
June 15, 1903. 
Dr. R. H. Pond, of Sterling, Ill., has been granted a resident 
research scholarship in the ere for six months beginning 
June 1, 1903. 
Miss A. M. Vail, Librarian, sailed for Paris, April 22, for the 
purpose of making some extensive purchases of books for the 
Garden. Several important contributions for this purpose have 
been recently received from members of the Garden. 
The Woman’s Municipal League (Morrisania Local Improve- 
ment District Branch) held a meeting at the Museum Building of 
the New York Botanical Garden on Friday, April 17, at 3:30 
P.M., at which the following papers were read: ‘‘ The duty of the 
woman in the combat of tuberculosis,’ by Dr. S. A. Knopf, of 
the Charity Organization Society ; “ What the Board of Health 
Luther Halsey Guleck, Director of Physical Training, Board of 
Education. 
The new road, connecting the driveways near the Museum 
Building, with Pelham Avenue, extending past the herbaceous 
garden, and southerly through the woods, near and along the 
Bronx River, has just been opened for driving. Work on this 
road was commenced in the autumn of 1901, and the portion of 
it within the Garden reservation was finished last fall; the por- 
tion extending from the southern edge of the Garden tract to 
Pelham Avenue was built by the Park Department during the 
latter part of last year, and finished early in April. The road 
is of Telford-McAdam construction, 25 feet wide, and by careful 
study was laid through the woods with the loss of only one or 
two good trees. It forms a desirable driveway connection be- 
