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 REPORT OF THE SCIENTIFIC DIRECTORS. 



(Presented and accepted January 14, igoi.) 



To the Board of Managers, 



New York Botanical Garden. 

 Gentlemen : I have the honor to submit herewith the re- 

 port of the Board of Scientific Directors for the year now 



closing. 



The Scientific Directors have held two meetings. At the 

 meeting of April 9, 1900, Dr. Henry H. Rusby was elected 

 a Scientific Director, subject to confirmation by the Board of 

 Managers. This confirmation was subsequently given. 



Plans were approved for quite extended botanical explora- 

 tion and investigation by various attaches of the Garden dur- 

 ing the summer of 1900, which plans have been since carried 

 out. In this way important work has been done along the 

 Atlantic coast and in Bermuda by Dr. Marshall A. Howe ; 

 in Wyoming by Dr. Carlton C. Curtis ; in northern Idaho by 

 Dr. D. T. MacDougal ; on the shores of the Gulf of Mexico 

 and in the Mississippi Delta by Professor Francis E. Lloyd, 

 and in southeastern Colorado by Dr. P. A. Rydberg. 



Mr. Cornelius Van Brunt was appointed Honorary Floral 

 Photographer to the Garden, and provision was made for 

 vacations for the officers of the Garden. 



The second meeting was held November 21, 1900. In the 

 meantime Dr. Britton, the Director-in-Chief, had visited the 

 Paris Exposition and had attended various botanical convoca- 

 tions as a representative of the Garden. In connection with 

 his trip both at Paris and at other botanical centres in Europe, 

 Dr. Britton succeeded in procuring a great quantity of scien- 

 tific material for our collections, a detailed report regarding 

 which was submitted to the Board of Scientific Directors at 

 this meeting. 



In general, regarding the work of the year, I may state 

 that the courses of instruction have been firmly established 

 and have drawn a body of students numbering about twenty 



