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pathology of the New York State College of Agriculture at 
Cornell University, joined the Garden staff for three months for 
the purpose of continuing his studies of various fungi and fungous 
diseases of plants. 
Publications 
Record.—Volume IV of the Recorp contained 137 pages and 
17 halftone illustrations. 
Leaflets—Series III comprised twelve numbers, which ap- 
peared at weekly or bi-weekly intervals. The popularity of this 
publication continues to increase, requests for it being received 
from all sections of the country. Additional requests speedily 
exhausted the issue of several numbers. 
Contributions —One number of the Contributions appeared, 
and two other numbers are now in the printer’s hands. 
American Journal of Botany.—The second volume of the 
Journal comprised 581 pages. This volume was printed on the 
Clarke memoir paper, which is an uncoated, linen rag paper, and 
thus insures as great a degree of permanency as may be had with 
any modern paper. The adoption of this paper makes the 
Journal doubly valuable as a medium for publication on account 
of the element of permanency. Cheaper papers, especially coated 
papers of wood pulp stock, have a life of only a few decades. 
Their progressive deterioration will ultimately result in the loss 
of all records printed on them. ‘The publication of the Journal 
has enriched our library through exchange courtesies, to the 
number of fifty publications. 
The Garden could not have rendered a more needed service to 
botanical science than to make possible the establishment of this 
Journal. The results of botanical investigation are accumulating 
so rapidly that the present facilities for publication are wholly 
inadequate. Prior to January 1, the Journal had in hand con- 
tributions sufficient to fill an entire volume as large as the one 
published last year. Other botanical magazines are even more 
congested, so that an investigator can usually not secure the 
publication of the results of his investigations until a year or 
eighteen months after the manuscript is completed. 
It is hoped that the size of the Journal of Botany can be some- 
