The heavy rain during June had a serious effect on local parks and public spaces, according to the report of the Superintendent who describes his department's work during the month.
He writes: The weather during June was exceptionally wet, a total of 16.80 inches of rain being recorded on 18 days as compared with 3.84 inches on 11 days during the corresponding month last year.
The excessive rainfall caused several species of trees and plants t0 make luxuriant growth chief among these being Cypressus, Pines. Crotons, Eucalyptus and Poinsettias Aerial roots grew on trees of the Salix family owing to the continual moist state of the atmosphere while many shrubs including—Jasminum, Syringa, Forsythia, Exochorda, Pittosporum and Kerria died owing to the waterlogged soil conditions.
What the electronic microscope might ultimately prove to do in the hands of modern scientists is still unpredictable; but there is no exaggeration in asserting that it will open up an entirely new era in all sciences working with microscopes, as for instance atomic chemistry and the physies of the ultimate structure of matter The principle by which these results were achieved is the use of bode rays in the place of light rays with an optical microscope. But whereas with the latter magnification is produced by the use of glass or fluorite lenses to deviate the rays of light, in the electronic microscope the cathode rays are deviated by use of electromagnetic collars, the whole being in a vacuum.
As in dealing with objects of such infinite smallness the adjustments of the instrument must be almost incredibly exact, this new tool of science is from the mere point of instrument-making a triumph of technical achievement.—Trans-Ocean.
The total number of visitors to the various municipal parks and children's gardens during the month was 168,578.
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