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lakes lying northeast of the city. During the trip nearly 1,100 numbers 

 were collected and many important data obtained as to the limits of 

 distribution of many species of plants in that part of the stare. 



The Herbarium and Botanical Garden have been under the immediate 

 care of I'rofessor Darlington, who has devoted himself to them and has 

 not counted the hours or (la3's necessarily devoted to these time-de- 

 manding objects misspent, if he could obtain good results. I quote a few 

 l)aragraphs from a brief report which he has made to me for the purpose. 



"Outside work in connection with the Botanical Garden lasts for about 

 six months or about from April 15 to October 15. This consists of 

 my own labor and the general supervision of additional helj). During the 

 latter part of the fall and part of the winter, I spent a large part of 

 four months in organizing the beds and preparing planting plans for 

 the spring. During September I visited the following botanical gardens 

 in the East with a view to getting new ideas : Botanical Garden, 

 Washington, D. C. ; New York Botanical Garden; Harvard Botanical 

 Garden; Arnold Arboretum; Bartram Botanical Garden, I'hiladelphia ; 

 Botanical Garden, Smith College; and Waugh's Garden, Massachusetts 

 Agricultural College. 



"In March I made a detailed report of the needs of the Garden. In 

 this I called attention to the need of more labor, more plants to fill 

 up the vacant spaces and the desirability of having greenhouse space 

 during the spring. Thanks to your cordial support, progress has already 

 been made along some of these lines. 



^'Herbarium. My work in connection with the Herbarium and identi- 

 fication of material occupied a large part of my time during three winter 

 months. Upwards of a thousand specimens were collected during our 

 survey of the Muskegon Valley last summer. A large proportion of 

 these have been labeled and they will form a valuable addition to that 

 part of the Herbarium devoted strictlj^ to the plants of Michigan. 

 This portion of the Herbarium was rearranged and conforms to an index 

 which was prepared, giving the location of each famil3^ Plant distribu- 

 tion records were made under my direction. These cover our state 

 material through all the families up to and including the Cyperaceae." 



AVe have continued to sell at cost the collections of weed seeds and of 

 plant diseases to the various high schools of the state. These have 

 proved to be very helpful to the instructors in botany and agriculture 

 in these schools. The price charged for these sets covers merely the cost 

 of material and of hired labor, not the hours of time put in in planning 

 and supervising the work. 



Three more graduate students majoring in botany have received their 

 M. S. degrees. M. T. Munn completed all of his required residence work 

 by September 1, but his other work at the New York Experiment Station 

 prevented the completion of his thesis until May of this year. The title 

 of his thesis was "The Botrytis Neck Kot Disease of Onions." D. A. 

 Seeley and P. C. Kitchin completed their residence work and submitted 

 their theses with the close of the last college year. Their thesis titles 

 were respectively: "The Climate of Michigan in its Kelation to Agri- 

 culture" and "The Kelation between the Structures of some Coniferous 

 Woods and their Penetration by Preservatives." W. K. Makemson has 

 been investigating the Cladosporium disease of tomatoes and will have 

 completed the required residence by September 1. The work of Herdis L. 



