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institutions which had not, up to that time, been on the 
regular mailing list), shows the expense of publishing and 
distributing the edition of 1,500 copies of each of the two 
Garden Reports printed since that statement was made to 
have been, —1897, $1,992.96;* 1898, $1,690.30, or 
$3,683.26 for the 3,000 volumes printed (ignoring, as has 
been done elsewhere, separates of some of the component 
articles, in pamphlet form, the cost of which, however, is 
included in these figures). The total expenditure for pub- 
lishing and distributing reports for the nine years, there- 
fore, including reissues of the first three already referred 
to,t is $16,708.30, or $1,856.48 per year, and each of the 
15,000 copies printed during this period has therefore cost 
a small fraction over $1.11. 
Since there remain on hand at the present time 2,066 
copies of the Reports for future use, the total cost of those 
that have been actually distributed may now be set down as 
$14,415.04, or an average of $1,601.67 for each of the nine 
years covered by the tabulation in the Eighth Report and 
that here given. 
As may be seen from my last report § and the preceding 
pages, || the library and herbarium of the Garden were en- 
riched, in 1897-98, by presented material valued (after 
deducting the value of exchange herbarium material sent 
out by us), on a low basis, at $2,747.29, or an average of 
$1,373.64 for each of the two years. The Garden, there- 
fore, has been given herbarium and library material of a 
total appraised value of $6,686.71,or an average of $1,114.45 
per year from 1893 to 1898, inclusive, for which period 
only records have been kept, and this may be regarded as 
a certain equivalent for the publications actually distributed. 
In addition to this library and herbarium material, the 
Garden has further received each year a considerable num- 
ber of plants and seeds which have been presented by 
* Rept. 9: 10. ¢t Rept. 8324. || Rept. 10:17, 19. 
+ Rept. 1039. § Rept. 93 14, 15. 
