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ing of Wednesday, June 27th, the Association being in session 
during the week of. June 25th to 29th at Columbia University. 
The programme consisted of a memorial of Dr, John Torrey, 
en, Dr. N. L. Britton, Professor E. S. Burgess, Judge 
Addison Brown and Professor C. H. Peck, and supplemental re- 
marks were made by Professor George MacCloskie and Professor 
W. J. Beal. The printed writings of Dr. Torrey, and a series of 
letters selected from his correspondence, together with ae 
graphs of his correspondents were‘exhibited in the Library by 
Miss Anna M. Vail. Lunch was served in the pee 
Laboratory at one o’clock, and the afternoon was devoted to meet- 
ings of societies affiliated with Association: the Botanical 
Society of America meeting i e Conference Room, the 
naean Fern Chapter in the oe [abortions and he 
Sullivant Moss Chapter in the Taxonomic Laboratory. A field 
excursion through the g ao ie occupied the afternoon 
ur o'clock until seven, and t ay was ended bya dinner 
at Bronx River Park. More than one hundred botanists were 
present from all parts of the country. 
The Conservatories. —The main Range of Horticultural Houses, 
over to the Garden. The preliminary installation of plants was 
commenced during the following week, by a consignment of 
specimens sent in exchange from the new conservatories in Cen- 
Park. The i 
tral ving of the collection accumulated for the 
Garden in the greenhouses at Columbia University was th 
taken up, and is now essentially completed. ° considerable 
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number of Heaeey has also been secured by exchange with the 
nurseries of the Park Department, Borough of the Bronx. The 
bringing in of a? numerous collections reserved for the Garden 
in private greenhouses will next be taken up. All eee the 
collection will be very extensive, and of considerable variety ; its 
satisfactory arrangement for display and study and the ees 
of the specimens will require several months’ time ; it may be ex- 
amined any day from nine until five o'clock. 
