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Sciences. Mr. Fishlock aided Dr. Britton greatly during his 
visit to these islands in the spring of 1913 (Journal, 14: 100--102). 
Mr. C. G. Lloyd, of Cincinnati, spent several days at the Gar- 
den in August and September examining species of Xvaria in 
the Garden collection in connection with his studies of that 
genus. 
The following visiting botanists have recently enrolled in 
the library: Professor Howard J. Banker, Cold Spring Harbor, 
. Y., Professor Homer D. House, Albany, N. Y., Mr. G. W. 
Martin, New Brunswick, N. J., Professor E. W. D. Holway, 
Minneapolis, Minn., and Professor John W. Harshberger, Phila- 
delphia, Pa., with his class in unos at Cold Spring Harbor. 
Members of the New Rochelle Garden Club visited the Garden 
on the afternoon of August 11 and were accompanied on their 
tour of inspection by Dr. and Mrs. Britton, Dr. Howe, and other 
members of the Staff. The dahlia border was first inspected, 
and Dr. Howe gave a brief talk on the selection and cultivation 
of dahlias, which was followed by questions and discussion. 
Then the tender and hardy water-lilies in the tanks at Conserva- 
tory Range 1 were examined and admired; after which the party 
visited the display borders of cannas, gladioli, and phlox, and 
the new Rose Garden. Mrs. Richards, the president, called a 
meeting of the club at the Mansion at 4 P.M., at which twenty 
members were present, most of whom remained to see the ex- 
periments in plant-breeding being conducted near the Propagat- 
ing Houses by Dr. Stout. 
Dr. W. A. Murrill spent a part of his vacation in July collecting 
and making field studies of fleshy fungi in the mountains of 
Virginia, where an unusual number were brought out by the 
heavy and continuous rains. He also experimented with cer- 
tain attractive formis for table use. All the way from New York 
to southwest Virginia, the black Jocust was found to be badly 
attacked by a leaf-miner; while the chestnut canker continued to 
