92 
Herbert Huntington Smith, curator of the Museum of the 
Geological Survey of Alabama since 1910, was killed by a freight 
train in Alabama on March 22. Professor Smith was very deaf 
and failed to hear the approaching train. Though best known . 
as a collector in branches of natural science other than botanical 
in South America, Mexico, and the West Indies, Professor Smith 
once made a notable collection of plants in Colombia, the deter- 
minations of which were made chiefly by Dr. H. H. Rusby of the 
Garden staff. 
Dr. P. A. Rydberg has again added to his published contri- 
butions on the flora of the Rocky Mountain region. His latest 
work bears the title ‘Key to the Rocky Mountain Flora,” and 
is a reprint of the keys in his larger manual ‘‘ Flora of the Rocky 
Mountains and Adjacent Plains.’ It is a neat little book of 
pocket size, printed on thin paper with narrow margins and 
bound in flexible red covers, and will be especially convenient 
for botanists and tourists who wish a compact portable book for 
field work. 
Meteorology for February.—The total precipitation for the 
month was 2.80 inches of which 0.12 inches (134 inches snow 
measurement) fell as snow. The maximum temperatures 
recorded at the Garden for each week were 53° on the 3d, 47° on 
the 13th, 49° on the 20th, and 50° on the 24th. The minimum 
temperattires were 20° on the 7th, 14° on the r1th, and 20° on the 
20th and 27th. 
Meteorology for March.—The total precipitation for the month 
was 4.15 inches including 0.45 inches (434 inches snow measure- 
ment) of snow. The maximum temperatures recorded at the 
Garden for each week were 61° on the 5th, 63° on the 13th, 
69° on the 2rst, and 63° on the 25th. The minimum temper- 
atures were 24° on the 7th, 26° on the 15th, 34° on the 23d, and 
23° on the 3oth. 
The site for the War Memorial plantation of Douglas Spruce, 
referred to in the January number of the JouRNAL, has been 
regulated and graded and path connections built to it during the 
