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Mrs. N. L. Britton has augmented both the general and local 
febana 2 the garden by presenting the Institution with her 
a very complete representation of the flora of that province. 
abe first installment of the Vigener Herbarium, the purchase 
D hi 
has la been received portion igener’s her- 
arium contai he Schaffner Mexican collec numbering 
about 4,500 specimens, many of them duplicated, and thus valu- 
able for future exchanges, and that part of a general collection 
consisting of cryptogams, and the flowering plants the 
Ranunculaceae to the Leguminosae, according to the DeCandol- 
lean System, numbering 10,877 specimens. This important 
accession was made by means of funds provided by Mr. Andrew 
negie 
weather for the month of June has presented a strong 
wee: 
and 80°. On the 12th the ee recorded temperature was 
89.5%, and from this Be until the 22d the maximum temperature 
did not exceed 80°, but on that ane the beginning of the long 
hot spell, the temperature ran up to 85°, and the daily maxima 
rom the 23~30 inclusive were: 91, 87, 8 3, 95, 91, and 97, 
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65, 6 
59.5, 64, 70, 71, and 72. During these eight days but .15 inch 
of rain fell, and this occurred on the afternoon of the 23d. 
