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has been directed to the making of valuable hybrids. Only a 

 year or two ago a special Orchid Section was organized in the 

 New York Horticultural Society to promote the cultivation and 

 popularity of these wonderful plants by means of addresses, 

 pamphlets, and public exhibitions. In the conservatories at the 

 New York Botanical Garden the orchid houses are especially 

 well filled, and the collection is being rapidly increased by gifts 

 and by exploring parties sent by the garden into various parts 

 of tropical America. 



Meeting adjourned. 



B. O. Dodge, 



Secretary 

 NEWS ITEMS 



On Saturday, May 24, 191 3, the ninth pubhc meeting of the 

 Sullivant Moss Society was held at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden 

 and the Brooklyn Institute Museum, with the President of the 

 Society, Prof. Alexander W. Evans, of Yale University, presiding. 

 At the morning session, held in the museum building, colored 

 lantern slides of mosses and hepatics were exhibited by Dr. 

 Abel J. Grout, and papers were presented by Miss Caroline 

 Coventry Haynes, Mr. G. K. Merrill, Miss Annie Lorenz (read 

 by Dr. Edward B. Chamberlain), Dr. Otto E. Jennings (read 

 by Mrs. Annie Morrill Smith), and Dr. George Hall Conklin. 

 Photographs and autographs of bryologists were exhibited by 

 Mrs. Smith, Vice-President of the Society, and a collection of 

 works on Bryophyta by Miss Hutchinson, the librarian of the 

 museum. Herbarium specimens of mosses and hepatics were 

 also exhibited by Mr. E. L. Morris, curator of natural history. 

 After luncheon at a local restaurant a trip was made through the 

 Brooklyn Botanic Garden, including the first sections of the 

 laboratory building and conservatories now nearing completion 

 and to the local flora garden. The session closed with a visit 

 to the hall of botany of the museum, where were exhibited wax 

 models of fungi, and glass models of fungi and algae recently 

 made, specially for the museum collections. 



The remaining lectures for the summer course at the New York 

 Botanical Garden on Saturday afternoons are as follows: July 5, 



