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Professor L. M. Underwood has returned from a trip to Colo- 
rado where he made a considerable collection of the later moun- 
tain flora of the southwestern portion of the State. Collections 
made ai ne summit, en ista, Leadville, Gl 
Springs and Grand Junction. The collection include 601 
n ments were also ma h th gri- 
the latter oe to the Garden for the purpose of making 
an annotated list of the Colorado flor. 
Two interesting additions to the see literature of botanic 
gardens have been inaugurate Fischer von Idheim an- 
nounces the first number of the Bulletin du Jardin Impérial 
Botanique de St. Petersbourg, hic is Director. The 
articles it contains are printed in Russian with a short French 
résumé. 
rom Ceylon comes the first part of the Annals of the Royal 
Botanic Gardens, Peradenyia, edited by the Director, J. C. Willis, 
M.A., F.L.S., in which he writes interestingly of ae Garden and 
its history and the facilities there for research and s 
The total amount of precipitation in the Garden nen Sep- 
in 
a 
cucurbits growing in the open air in the nurseries were killed b 
e cool air on the morning of the 26th, 
ACCESSIONS. 
MUSEUMS AND HERBARIUM. 
speci f foods fi Bone (Given by Miss Catharine H. Barbour. } 
f France. (Given by Professor L. M. Underwood. ) 
I T specimen of Tulipa syloestras —_ Pennsylvania: (Given b a C. D. Fretz.) 
d by Dr. V. Havard. 
Res pipes and Giga holders. (Given by H. Tibbe & Son Tae Com- 
81 herbarium specimens from Europe and North America. (Given by Dr. G. 
ee er, ) 
