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month of March, the mild weather having permitted operations 
which in ordinary seasons could not have been accomplished 
until April. The area selected is about one acre in extent on a 
gentle slope to the northeast, situated near the entrance to the 
Horticultural Garden on the Southern Boulevard. An old farm- 
road which traversed the area had to be broken up and many 
large rocks and boulders removed. The stone obtained in the 
grading work supplied all required for the Telford foundations 
of the paths, and an unsightly portion of the grounds has been 
greatly improved. Planting of the trees was commenced during 
the first week of April. 
Mrs. Henry O. Taylor, one of the members of the Women’s 
Auxiliary, has presented to the library of the Garden an unusually 
fine copy of Piso’s valuable work on the natural history and 
medicine of the Indies (De Indiae utriusque re naturali et medica), 
published at Amsterdam by the famous printers Louis and 
Daniel Elzivir in 1658. More than half of the volume is occupied 
by Piso’s own observations upon the animals and plants of 
Brazil during a residence of eight years (1637-44) in that country, 
and the work is a classic among those relating to the flora of 
eastern tropical South America. This copy is of particular 
interest because it was presented by the author to a friend, a 
young student of medicine, and bears an inscription to that effect 
ina beautifully clear hand, at the bottom of the engraved title- 
page, signed ‘‘ G: Piso.”’ 
The fourth floor of the Museum Building at the Garden has 
been overcrowded as a result of the steady growth of the col- 
lections and library which are housed there, until it has become 
necessary to remove a portion of the collections to the floor 
below. The exhibition cases of the Systematic collection have 
been rearranged, vacating the west wing of the third floor. 
This wing has been partitioned off from the remainder of the 
floor and divided into three small rooms to be used as studies 
and a large room for the collections. The entire herbarium of 
thallophytes, except the lichens, is now housed in this room, 
While the studies are occupied by Dr. Murrill, supervisor of 
