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NOTES, NEWS AND COMMENT. 
. Walter H. Lewis has kindly presented the Garden with 
a collection of pressed ferns and other plants collected by her late 
son, Walter H. Lewis, Jr. The specimens are of value to our 
herbarium and have been given a special label before being in- 
corporated into the general collection. Mrs. Lewis very thought- 
fully offered to pay forthe work in arranging, labeling and mount- 
tion by students at once, by employing outside assistance for the 
purpose, 
e weather record of the Garden for December, 1900, shows 
a total rainfall of 2.5 inches. Maximum temperatures of 53 on 
15th, rr on the 17th, 7 on the 18th, 18.5 on the 21st and 22d, 
and 18 on the 28th and 30th 
ACCESSIONS. 
E AND HERBARIUM. 
10 baleateu | specimens from Pennsylvania. (Given by Prof. Thos. C. Port ter.) 
b iven by the New York Cotton Exchange. } 
I specimens from “British Columbia. "(Given by Prof. J. F. Kemp, for the Co- 
ee Herbarium. 
15 museum specimens, ‘scales’? for knife handles of ebony, beech, cocobola and 
other woods, pieces of cocobola wood, one showing how knife handles are made. 
(Given by Mr. W. P. Everts. ) 
II specimens from New feland: ae ea ) 
p (Given by Messrs. Parke, Davis 
& Co. 
29 museum specimens of flax, thread, yarn and floss. (Given by the Barbour 
ee Co.) 
1 specimens of fungi from aegis (Given by Prof. H. J. Banker.) 
3 specimens of Cyperaceae from New En hate be ae8 Prof. E, ae ) 
T jar of cranberries from Long Island. (Give . Britton. 
I museum specimen of fruit of 4//amanda aN i exchange with 
the U. S. Denna of eager ure.) 
II mosses from Ore (Given by Mr, J. B. Lieberg. ) 
