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NOTES, NEWS AND COMMENT 
Miss E. M. Kittredge, custodian of the lantern slide col- 
lection, left early in April for Woodstock, Vermont, where she 
will spend a part of the spring. 
The Pacific Slope and adjacent Rocky Mountains are repre- 
sented in a large collection of plants from British Columbia, 
Alberta, Washington, Oregon, and California, obtained by ex- 
change with the Field Museum of Natural History. 
Among recent visitors at the Museum Building were Dr. J. W. 
Harshberger, of the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. W. W. 
Tupper, of Newtonville, Mass., Mr. Wilbur A. Brotherton, of 
the University of Michigan, and Miss Minerva Hart, librarian 
of the public library, Port of Spain, Trinidad. 
Short notes have been appearing in the daily press at frequent 
intervals during the past month, calling the attention of the 
public to special features of immediate interest in the greenhouses 
or on the grounds of the New York Botanical Garden. The 
notes have evidently been read by numerous persons, many of 
whom have visited the Garden as a result. 
A collection of about twenty-two hundred miscellaneous 
specimens of flowering plants from various parts of the Philippine 
Islands has been received for the herbarium. This acquisition 
represents an important addition to our large series of Philippine 
plants, which is built up mainly of the collections of Mr. R. S. 
Williams, Dr. C. B. Robinson, and the various collectors of the 
Bureau of Science of the Philippine government. 
Professor Kemp has recently found among other stored articles 
in the Department of Geology of Columbia University a note- 
book of the late Professor John Strong Newberry, containing 
notes in French taken by him while a student, and covering the 
lectures on Botany delivered by Professor Brongniart in Paris 
in 1849 and 1850. Through Professor Harper, Professor Kemp 
has transmitted this very interesting document to the Garden 
for Preservation, and it has been added to the library. 
