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Nash, head gardener, and Mr. Geo. A. Skene, second gar- 

 dener, Mr. Nash taking personal charge of the administrative 

 work, of the installation and the labeling, Mr. Skene super- 

 intending the cultural work and the care of the grounds, 

 plantations, trees and forest. Labelling and recording has 

 required the constant attention of two apprentices. Further 

 details relative to plants and planting will be found in the 

 report of the head gardener, hereto appended. 



Buildings. 



i. Museum. No changes have been found necessary in 

 this building other than minor details of construction made 

 desirable by the growth of the collections, and a few ordi- 

 nary repairs. The installation during the summer in the 

 east basement museum hall of the paleobotanical collections 

 deposited with the Garden by Columbia College, under the 

 supplementary agreement between the Garden and the Trus- 

 tees of the College, dated May 3, 1901, made it desirable 

 to construct two small rooms at the east end of the hall, for 

 storage and sorting of the fossil plants. These were built 

 during the autumn by means of brick partitions about one- 

 half of the height of the hall. Cases partly sufficient for 

 the display of this collection came with it from the college ; 

 these were set up and specimens arranged in them during 

 the autumn ; the miscellaneous specimens previously stored 

 in this hall were removed to the basement room under the 

 southern end of the east wing, and the paleobotanical collec- 

 tion was opened to the public early in December ; it requires 

 three additional table cases and eight additional wall cases to 

 complete the furniture equipment of the hall. The new 

 storage rooms are being fitted up with cases of trays built by 

 our own carpenters. 



In the west basement hall, used during the spring for 

 horticultural exhibitions in cooperation with the Horticul- 

 tural Society of New York, were placed four wooden tables, 

 extending nearly the whole length of the hall ; these are 

 available for future use for the same purpose. The engin- 



