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in the economic section, and many regrets were expressed that the 
fine materia medica collections could not be examined in detail, 
these being naturally of paramount interest to pharmacists. 
Dr. and Mrs. N. L. Britton spent a two weeks’ vacation in 
September at Mohonk Lake, New York. 
Dr. J. N. Rose, of the Smithsonian Institution, spent two 
weeks at the Garden during September, studying the collections 
of cacti which he and Dr. Britton are monographing for the 
Carnegie Institution. 
The exhibit of dahlias, held at the Garden September 20 and 
21, was unusually successful. The Garden collection was in 
full bloom and, supplemented by the displays of outside dahlia 
growers, attracted a large number of visitors. 
- The glass-houses cf Range 2, which had been vacated because 
of coal shortage over a year ago, have been partially reoccupied. 
The transverse house is now devoted to cycads and the larger 
ferns, while the three longitudinal houses are given to temperate 
zone woody plants, the smaller ferns, and orchids. 
Dr. W. A. Murrill was invited to represent the New York 
Botanical Garden at a meeting of plant pathologists and Con- 
necticut farm bureau agents, held during the week beginning 
August 18 at New Haven, Storrs, and elsewhere, for the discus- 
sion of some of the most important problems now confronting 
the Connecticut farmers, fruit growers, and truck gardeners. 
About twenty botanists, mostly from New England and New 
York, were present; while several hundred other persons were in 
attendance at special meetings. The evenings were devoted to 
brief papers and discussions: the mornings and afternoons to 
automobile tours through the plantations between New Haven, 
Hartford, and Storrs, covering a distance of three hundred miles. 
The following visiting botanists have recently enrolled in the 
