FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR. 17 



sketches and manuscript notes of the late Dr. George 

 Engelmann have been mounted on sheets and bound in 60 

 quarto volumes, not included in the preceding enumeration. 



The Garden room at the Marine Biological Laboratory 

 at Wood's Holl was again used through the summer of 

 1893 by Mr. M. A. Brannon, who continued his studies of 

 Grinnellia, and it is expected that he will make similar use 

 of it through the coming season, — my feeling being that 

 it is better to have one piece of work completed in this way 

 than to have several begun and left unfinished for lack of 

 the facilities which the Garden can give. 



So much of my time as could be spared from adminis- 

 trative and class work has been devoted to botanical study, 

 and two small papers on systematic botany will appear in 

 the fifth Report, while another is nearly ready for advance 

 publication from the sixth volume. My general assistant, 

 Mr. J. G. Smith, who succeeded Mr. Dewart in June last, 

 has found time, in addition to his routine duties, to nearly 

 complete a revision of the North American species of 

 Sagittaria, which is expected to be ready for publication 

 early in the year. 



In addition to the regular publications for the year, the 

 Garden has issued a second edition from the electrotyped 

 plates of the first Report, the supply of which had become 

 exhausted ; and a small handbook giving in a concise form the 

 principal facts about the Garden, and illustrated by a map 

 and a number of half-tone illustrations of points of interest 

 to visitors, has been published and placed on sale at the 

 gate, at the nominal price of 25 cents per copy. 



Four annual events provided for in the will of Henry Shaw 

 have taken place during the year, namely : the delivery of 

 the fourth annual flower sermon, on the 14th of May, in 

 Christ Church Cathedral, by Rt. Rev. Thomas IL Dudley, 

 Bishop of Kentucky ; the fourth banquet of the Trustees of 

 the Garden and their guests, presided over by Judge G. 

 A. Madill, of the Board ; the award of the third series of 

 Shaw premiums at a floral exhibition, given under the 



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