EIGHTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR. 25 
nized source of library and herbarium donations, the value 
of which, as estimated in the Director’s reports for several 
years past, is as follows :— 
HERBARIUM.* LIBRARY.f¢ TOTAL. 
ISOB «osc on cae e ores Cote ets 08's $324 75 $609 05 $933 80 
OY ey ee ea eee 219 70 931 60 1,151 30 
1898 . «casey e wire sees edee ec cee 284 15 799 97 1,084 12 
MSOB seer eer ies e's ceé oc cans 230 65 539 55 770 20 
AVETAZC. 00 cee cece sece scenes $264 81 $720 04 $984 85 
Ignoring as a separate item the reprints which have been 
issued from the Reports, as being relatively inexpensive 
(though the cost is included in the cost of reports above 
given ), an analysis of the publication account shows that for 
an expenditure of $13,025.04, 12,000 copies of the Reports 
have been printed, making their average cost $1.09 each. 
About 2,800 copies now remain for future use, so that the 
actual cost to the Garden of the accessions reported above 
is $9,985.86, or an average of $1,426.55 per year. 
In addition to the Reports, in 1893 the Garden issued, for 
the convenience of visitors, a small handbook, attractively 
illustrated and bound in leatherette, stating in a concise 
form the history of the establishment, and indicating a few 
of the features of interest. By instruction of the Board, 
this handbook has been offered for sale by the gate-keeper, 
at the approximate cost of publication, namely 25 cents 
per copy. 
In the fourth paragraph of the second clause of his will,t 
the founder of the Garden declares his intention ‘ that in- 
struction to garden pupils shall be attended to, both in 
practical and scientific horticulture, agriculture and arbori- 
culture.”? From certain manuscript memoranda left by 
him, it appears that Mr. Shaw’s intention was, at the first, 
* Valued at the low rate of $5.00 per hundred specimens. 
+ The valuation arbitrary and inexact, but in the main lower than the 
average selling prices of comparable books and pamphlets. 
¢ First Report, 37. 
