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RECEPTION DAYS AND LECTURES. 
The Director-in-chief and other members of the staff will re. 
ceive members and their friends at the grounds in Bronx Park on 
aioe October 13th, 20th, 27th and every Saturday in No- 
be n leaves Grand Central Station, Harlem peti 
P. M., for Bedford Park. Return 
train eaves Bedford ce at 5:3 38 P.M. Excursion fare, rs 
museums, laboratories, library and herbarium, the large con- 
servatories partly filled with plants, the herbaceous collection, 
the hemlock forest, the fruticetum and parts of the arboretum 
site. 
The Fall course of lectures will be delivered in the Lecture 
Hall of the Museum Building of the reek Bronx Park, on 
Saturday afternoons, at 4:30 o'clock, as follows : 
to) «“ Autumn Flowers,” by Mr. Cornelius Van 
Brunt. 
October 20th. ‘‘ Evergreen Trees,” by Prof. Francis = are 
October 27th. ‘Freezing of Plants,’’ by Dr. D. c- 
ougal 
ovember 3d. ‘Evolution of Sex in Plants,” by Prof. L. M. 
Underwood. 
November toth. ‘Poisonous Plants Which Live in Our 
Bodies and How We Contend against Them,” by Prof. H. H 
Rusby. 
November 27th. “The Sedges,”’ by Dr. N. L. Brit 
The lectures will be illustrated by lantern slides and ewes 
They will close in time for auditors to take the 5:38 train from 
Building is reached the Harlem Division, 
New York Central Railroad to ede Park Station, or by 
trolley to Bedford Park. 
