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kept in the main conservatory may now be grown in the propa- 
subsequently brought back to the main range. The laying of 
this pipe was considerably delayed, owing to the utilization of the 
same trench for a telephone cable, connecting the museum build- 
ing with the stable and propagating houses. 
Subjects have been se ieee in the weekly conventions in the 
low: b 
museum as fol : “Movements of fluids in plants,’ by Dr. 
: Curtis; “ ey of recent mycological literature,” by 
Professor L. M. Underwood; ‘Review of recent literature on 
algae,” by Dr. H. M. Richards; “A study of the thermal re- 
lations of vegetation,” by Dr. D. T. MacDougal; ‘“ Morphology 
and physiology - ie of Arisaema,” by Miss R. J. Ren- 
nert; “The genus Pte/ea in eastern America,’’ by Dr. J. K. 
eae and “Comparison of Urnula and Geopyais,” by Miss Elsie 
M. Kupfer. 
Mr. F. H. Blodgett, who has been a student at the Garden for 
some months and who has also served as a museum aid, has been 
appointed preparator in the botanical department - the Field 
Columbian Museum, of Chicago. 
Dr. P. ALR bee: Assistant Curator, has been given a short 
leave of absence for a trip in Europe. He will visit the herbaria 
on the 14th, and 46.5 on the 25th, were observed. No frosts oc- 
curred, yet the general average temperature was low, and the 
number of hours of sunshine very small 
