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equipment with the electric stereopticon and light-excluding 

 shades : in addition to the use of the lantern some of the lec- 

 tures have been freely illustrated by living plants brought 

 from the grounds and conservatories. 



The appreciation of these lectures by our members, and by 

 the public, makes it desirable to increase the number to be de- 

 livered this year; the invitations to our members to visit the 

 Garden on Saturday afternoons in advance of the lectures has 

 been taken advantage of by many, who have thus kept in 

 touch with the development of the institution. No evening 

 lectures have yet been attempted. 



Publications. 



Bulletin No. 5, including reports of officers and commit- 

 tees for the year 1889, together with five scientific papers 

 written by members of the staff, was issued March 30, 1900; 

 this will complete the first volume. 



The monthly Journal has been regularly issued from Jan- 

 uary to December, together with an index, under the editor- 

 ship of Dr. MacDougal. Its contents have been restricted to 

 articles and reports bearing on the work of the Garden, to- 

 gether with a detailed list of accessions to the several depart- 

 ments. The Journal has proved to be a very valuable 

 medium for informing our members, and others interested in 

 our work, about the progress in developing the Garden, and 

 it might be somewhat enlarged to advantage, inasmuch as 

 there is an abundance of interesting material available to fill 



its pages. 



The first volume of the Memoirs, containing the catalogue 

 of the Flora of Montana and the Yellowstone National Park, 

 prepared by Dr. Rydberg, assistant Curator of the Museums, 

 was issued on February 15th. This document included an 

 unexpectedlv large amount of new scientific information and 

 is a valuable contribution to our knowledge of the llora of the 

 northern Rocky Mountains. 



Under the title of Contributions we have issued ten re- 

 prints of papers written by membersof the staff of the Garden 



