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Mr. George V. Nash, Head Gardener, lectured on “Rose 
Gardens’’ before the Rumson Garden Club, Rumson, New Jersey, 
August 5. 
Afeteorology for July—The precipitation for the month at 
the New York Botanical Garden was 4.44 inches. The maxi- 
mum. temperatures recorded for each week were 100° on the 4th 
and 5th, 85° on the 8th and 14th, 93° on the 27th, and 96° on 
the 28th. The minimum temperatures were 54° on the oth, 
64° on the 15th, and 60° on the 26th and 30th. 
Work on the new coal bunkers at Power-house 1 has been 
pushed through the summer and they will be ready to receive 
coal during the autumn delivery. They are built with masonry 
walls and reinforced concrete roof, and approximately quadruple 
the storage capacity at the power-house. All the work has been 
done by Garden employees, under the direction of Superintendent 
A. J. Corbett. 
Dr. A. D. Cotton, plant pathologist of the Board of Agricul- 
ture, London, and formerly in charge of the collection of algae 
at the Royal Gardens, Kew, visited the Garden August 16 and 
gave much interesting information relative to botanical and 
horticultural conditions in England. It was satisfactory to 
learn that neither has been seriously restricted on account of 
the war, but sad to know that a number of highly promising 
young men had been killed in action, and these it is impossible to 
replace. 
A large collection of herbarium specimens made by Mr. W. C. 
Fishlock, agricultural instructor for the British Virgin Islands, 
on the islands Tortola, Virgin Gorda, and Anegada has recently 
been received and studied at the Garden. It adds much to 
our knowledge of the distribution of species occurring also in 
the American Virgin Islands and in Porto Rico, and comes in 
good time to have this information included in the botanical 
part of the reports on the scientific survey of Porto Rico and the 
Virgin Islands for publication by the New York Academy of 
