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The tablet bears the inscription ‘This greenhouse was given by 
Daniel Guggenheim and Murry Guggenheim, 1917-1918, The 
New York Botanical Garden.” 
Among recent additions to the herbarium are a valuable col- 
lection of specimens from California and neighboring states, col- 
lected by Miss Alice Eastwood, curator of the California Acad- 
emy of Sciences, and sent in exchange from that institution, and 
an interesting series of the earlier collections of Mr. John Macoun 
from Canada. 
Mrs. E. G, Britton has given two of the Stokes’ Wild Flower 
Preservation lectures, one before the Garden Club of Trenton, 
New Jersey, as the guest of Mrs. Karl Roebling, on April 3, and 
the other at the Larchmont Garden Club on Aptil 7. The New 
Rochelle Garden Club made a special request for a lecture on 
the New York Botanical Garden, and Miss Kittredge prepared 
for it.some new colored slides of Professor Anderson’s exploded 
grains, which were discovered in the Garden laboratories. 
On the afternoon of Wednesday, April 23, after a succession of 
warm sunny days, the lakes north of the Museum building were 
Most attractive. Willows, poplars and sugar maples gave here 
and there a brilliant bright-green note to the brown woods; 
birches dangled their long catkins in the breeze; the high-bush 
blueberries cast red reflections in the water; cat-tails and swect 
flags were pushing out of the mud; lilies had just reached the 
surface and were beginning to unfold their coppery red Icaves. 
In the tall sweet-gums and button-woods the red-winged black- 
bird was calling its shrill trilling note; kingfishers noisily chased 
each other up and down the river; a muskrat sat up on the bank 
nibbling some fresh green plants; and a small blue-gray heron 
sat calmly on a branch sound asleep, evidently resting after a 
long journey. Flycatchers and warblers darted about, and in 
quiet secluded corners the chewinks and thrushes were foraging. 
High up in the top of an ash, that melodious songster, the brown 
thrasher, was softly practising his repertoire, getting ready for 
