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NOTES, NEWS AND COMMENT 
Professor W.-C. Coker, of the University of North Carolina, 
was at the Garden during a part of July consulting the library 
and mycological collections. 
Dr. Charles E. Fairman, of Lyndonville, New York, spent the 
first part of July studying certain collections of fungi in the 
herbarium of the Garden. He is preparing manuscript for 
North American Flora. 
Mrs. S. W. Wheeler, curator in the Department of Botany 
at the Agricultural College at Amherst, Massachusetts, recently 
called at the Garden to look over specimens of the powdery 
mildews in connection with her work on the species occurring 
in Massachusetts. 
Seventy pupils and teachers from the Jewish School at 500 
East 140th Street visited the Garden July 9, to study the eco- 
nomic collections in the museum building and living plants in 
certain parts of the grounds, under the guidance and instruction 
of four members of the Garden Staff. 
Mr. Edgar L. Dickerson, of New Brunswick, New Jersey, 
Visited the Garden on June 30 to study the blue willow beetle, 
which is attacking various species of willow and poplar on the 
grounds of the Garden. Mr. Dickerson and Mr. Weiss made a 
special study of this insect a few years ago, soon after its intro- 
duction into this country from Europe. 
feteorology for June.—The total precipitation for the month 
of June was 1.14 inches. The maximum temperatures recorded 
at the Garden for each week were 94° on the 2d, 87° on the 13th, 
88° on the 22d, and 93° on the 24th. The minimum temperatures 
were 54° on the 9th, 52° on the 13th, 47° on the 23rd, and 48° on 
the 29th. 
