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brought out the largest audience so far this season, exhausting 

 the seating capacity of the assembly hall. 



During the past month the Museum was honored by a visit 

 from Professor Nordal Wille of the Department of Botany in the 

 University of Christiana, Norway, and Director of the Botanical 

 Garden in that city. Professor Wille spent some time examining 

 our herbarium, and the curator-in-chief, in company with Dr. N. L. 

 Britton, Director of the New York Botanical Garden, was privi- 

 leged to act as guide on several collecting trips to various parts of 

 the island. Professor Wille is an authority on fresh-water algae, 

 and the local specimens collected and named by him will make a 

 unique and interesting addition to our flora. 



Farmers Bulletin 626, recently issued by the U. S. Department 

 of Agriculture, is by L. O. Howard, on " The Carpet Beetle or 

 Buffalo Moth." It deals with the characters, distribution, natural 

 history and habits of this household pest, and includes suggestions 

 for remedying and preventing the destruction caused or liable to 

 be caused by it. Imported originally from Europe, about the year 

 1873, it has since spread throughout the New England States, 

 Pennsylvania, New York, and as far west as Kansas. An inter- 

 esting fact noted is that whereas in Europe it is not especially 

 recognized as a household pest it is known as one of the insects 

 which attack museum collections— a habit which, fortunately, it 

 has not as yet acquired, to any considerable extent, in this 

 country. 



Accessions to the museum and library have been received 

 as follows during the past month : Samuel R. Brick, Jr., Robert 

 Morris, Miss A. L. Pollard, New Brighton ; L. L. Tribus, Staple- 

 ton ; Standard Varnish Works, Elm Park ; Sanderson Smith, Port 

 Richmond ; Robert Seelen, Midland Beach ; N. L. Britton, N. Y. 

 Botanical Garden, New York City ; Thomas L. Casey, Washing- 

 ton, D. C. 



The only one of the above listed accessions now on display is 

 the framed, colored series of eight wild flowers needing protec- 

 tion, donated by the New York Botanical Garden, which has been 

 hung in the lower hallway where it forms an attractive feature of 

 the museum. 



