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known, together with diagnostic keys for their determination, 

 and as much of their synonymy as relates to Jamaican records. 

 No undescribed species were found, but the collections made by 

 recent explorers added a number to those recorded by Mr. 

 Clarke in his monograph of the West Indian Cyperaceae, pub- 

 lished in the second volume of Professor Urban's " Symbolae 

 Antillanae." 



" Exhibition of Photomicrographs of North American Woods," 

 by Dr. C. Stuart Gager. 



Numerous specimens were shown from a collection of photo- 

 micrographs of cross-sections of North American woods, recently 

 acquired by the Garden from Mr. James A. Weale, of the firm 

 of Williams, Weale & Co., of Liverpool, England. These photo- 

 micrographs are all enlarged ten diameters, thus facilitating com- 

 parison. They are of very superior quality, so that many finer 

 elements of the histology of the various woods can be demon- 

 strated under a lens with nearly as great satisfaction as from the 

 original sections. They possess the advantage of being less 

 fragile than the sections themselves and of serving better than 

 these for purposes of demonstration before classes and otherwise. 

 The collection contains representations of practically all North 

 American species. 



By way of comparison, specimens were shown of Hough's 

 "American Woods" and of Nordlinger's " Holzquerschnitte." 



The Club adjourned at five o'clock. 



C. Stuart Gager, 



Secretary. 

 NEWS ITEMS 



Dr. John A. Shafer has started on a collecting trip, for the New 

 York Botanical Garden, to the West Indian island of Montserrat. 



Dr. Marshall A. Howe returned to New York on January 30 

 from a botanical expedition to Jamaica. Six weeks were spent 

 in collecting and studying marine algae in the vicinity of Kingston 

 and Montego Bay. 



Mr, E. S. Steele, of the United States National Museum, spent 

 a few days, about the first of January, studying the herbarium 

 material in the New York Botanical Garden. 



