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Quito Railway Company and were under many obligations to 
Mr. John Dobbie, general manager of the road, and to the con- 
ductors and railway men generally for courtesies extended. Our 
genial host, Mr. Edward Morley, of Huigra, not only cared for 
our bodily wants but sometimes acted as guide and companion 
on perilous trips into the high mountains. ; 
J. N. Rose. 
A LARGE TULIP TREE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING 
During the violent thunder-storm on the afternoon of Friday, 
June 20, when it became so dark that reading was impossible 
without artificial light, one of the tallest tulip trees in the Garden 
reservation was struck by a powerful electric discharge and 
scarred from top to the base, its bark and outer wood layers 
being thrown off along a slightly winding strip on the north side 
some five inches wide; a small hemlock-spruce alongside was also 
affected and the ground beneath the tree was much disturbed. 
The tree stands near the north end of the hemlock grove, quite 
in the woods, a few steps east of the path leading from the water- 
garden to the economic garden, and from this path the effects 
of the lightning stroke may be observed; it is a hundred feet or 
more in height, with a circumference of ten feet; its top pro- 
jects above the surrounding forest. 
Lightning has struck a number of trees in the Garden, both 
isolated and in the woods, from time to time, and whenever a 
severe thunder-storm comes across the reservation such strokes 
have come to be expected. Some records of these were made by 
Dr. MacDougal and discussed by him in Journal 3: 131-135- 
1902. Record of the loss of the largest pin-oak may be found in 
Journal 7: 154-156. 1906. Many which have been struck have 
not been recorded. None have survived the injuries received, 
either dying after a time or becoming so decrepit as to require 
their removal. 
The case here described will be interesting to follow; it is ex- 
pected that the stricken Liriodendron will show signs of its injury 
within a short time. 
N. L. BritTTon. 
