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Any members of the club or others interested in the local flora 

 will confer a favor if they will send to Mr. Norman Taylor, 

 Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Brooklyn, N. Y., any specimens or 

 notes that will add to or correct statements as to distribution of 

 our native plants, as given in "Flora of the Vicinity of New 

 York." 



We learn from Science that Dr. R. F. Griggs, of Ohio State 

 University, has been selected by the National Geographic 

 Society to lead an expedition to study the vegetation of the Kat- 

 mai district in Alaska. The purpose of the expedition is to 

 study the means by which vegetation gains a foothold on the 

 volcanic ash with which that country was covered by the eruption 

 of Katmai in 1912. 



Lectures are announced at the New York Botanical Garden on 

 Saturday afternoons at four o'clock as follows: June 5, "A Rose 

 Garden for Every Home," by Mr. Robert Pyle; June 12, " Dwarf 

 Fruit Tress for Suburban Homes," by Prof. F. A. Waugh ; June 19, 

 "Philippine Fiber Plants and Their Uses," by Mr. Theodore 

 Muller; June 26, "The Upper Delaware Valley and Its Flora," 

 by Mr. G. V. Nash; July 3, "Some Interesting Plants of the 

 Rocky Mountains," by Dr. P. A. Rydberg; July 10, "The 

 Poisonous Plants of the Eastern United States," by Dr. William 

 Mansfield; July 17, "Botanic and Scenic Features of the Dells 

 of the Wisconsin River," by Dr. A. B. Stout; July 24, "Botan- 

 izing on the Austro-Italian Border," by Dr. W. A. Murrill; 

 July 31, "The Library of the New York Botanical Garden," by 

 Dr. J. H. Barnhart. 



The field committee of the club announces field meetings as 

 follows : 

 Junes. (Saturday.) Leonia, N. J. Fresh-water Algae. Meet 



at Fort Lee Ferry, West 130th St., leaving at i 40 P.M. Cost 



30 cents. Guide: Dr. T. E. Hazen. 

 June 13. (Sunday.) Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, N. Y. 



Fungi. Train leaves N. Y. (Long Island R. R.), Seventh Ave. 



and 33d St., 9 A.M. Change cars at Jamaica for Wading 



