REPORT ON THE SECTION OF FORESTRY 

 IN THE U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1892. 



By I>r. B. E. Fernow, Honorary Curator, 



The forestry collections have remained without many additions, owing 

 to the fact that lack of space limits their exhibition, and the bulkiness 

 of the material makes it undesirable to add to them in the storage- 

 rooms. 



Since the Museum does not, like the Kew Gardens, command any 

 grounds of its own for the exhibition of living specimens, and the city 

 parks of Washington afford ample opportunity to serve as aii arboretum, 

 the curator ot forestry collections has prepared during the year a full 

 list, with notes, of all the tree species found in these parks, and plotted 

 the same so that they may be readily found. This compilation, car- 

 ried on at the expense of the Museum, will be ready for publication next 

 year. 



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