Phanerogamic Herbarium 
The work in this department consisted chiefly in rearranging 
the collection after the new cases arrived, and in the mounting of 
specimens already on hand. About 7,000 sheets were mounted 
during the year and most of these have been sorted, provision- 
ally, into their proper places. The amount of purely technical 
work still to be done on the herbarium, to make it of botanical 
significance, as such collections go, is very considerable. ‘There 
is also a great need for specimens from tropical regions in order 
to facilitate the naming of the greenhouse collections. Because 
of the already crowded conditions, in spite of the fact that we 
doubled our herbarium cases during the year, few additions have 
been made. Among the more important are collections from the 
Philippine Islands (304), collections by A. A. Heller from the 
Pacific coast (500) and collections of John McCallum, mostly 
local (1,700). The total accessions were 3,465. 
During the year Dr. Alfred L. Gundersen has attended to 
many of the details of this department, and he has had assistance 
from time to time in the cataloging and herbarium work. 
Special Needs 
On the grounds, it will be necessary to resurface all our bitu- 
minous walks with sand during the coming year. Also the fence 
along the boundaries is in need of a good deal of repair work 
and considerable painting. Some of this would have to be done 
by outside help. Very early in the spring we should extend the 
water pipes for irrigation purposes to the south addition, so 
that development and planting will not be delayed. 
For the collections, now that permanent planting plans are out- 
lined, we should put in all the trees and plants of a permanent 
nature we can during the coming year. The planting of such 
collections has been so long delayed that we should push this side 
of our work to the utmost now that permanent plans are ready to 
be worked out. 
For the systematic collections, I would urge that the Garden 
try to accumulate the greatest possible collection of American 
species that can be had. The desirability of doing this in such 
