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button issued to children; Garden Teachers’ Association of the 
Brooklyn Botanic Garden, officers and members, 1916; booklet of 
information; diagram showing the location of the Garden in the 
city; card of invitation to the first tree planting; book plates; 
Botanic Garden letter-heads ; autograph of Mr. Alfred T. White; 
copy of monthly report of the director of the Garden to the trus- 
tees of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences for March, 
1916; folder giving itinerary for trip through the Garden at the 
reception to the Japan Society, May 21, 1913; miscellaneous printed 
matter 
Samples of me blank forms in use from the beginning of the 
Garden to 1 
10. Samples of aa labels in use, 1916. 
Ir. One copy of the Twenty-fifth ae Book of the Brooklyn Institute 
of Arts and Sciences, 1912-1913 (the last issue to date). 
12. Copy of the Brooklyn Daily Bagle of April 20, 1916; copy of the 
Standard-Unton, April 20, 1916 
ee. 
REPORI ON AwRIP TO SDUDY AND COLEBGIARUSTS 
AND OTHER PARASITIC FUNGI OF PORTO RICO 
The writer sailed on February 19, 1916, on the New York and 
Porto Rico liner Carolina, in company with Professor H. H. 
Whetzel, of the college of agriculture of Cornell University, to 
spend two months or more in collecting and studying the fungi 
of Porto Rico. I am indebted to three sources for funds for 
this purpose; and I wish here to record my sincere thanks for 
such assistance, in particular, to Dr. N. L. Britton, director of 
the New York Botanical Garden, to the committee in charge of 
grants of the New York Academy of Sciences, as well as to the 
authorities of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. 
Landing on the afternoon of February 23 at San Juan, we spent 
two days in presenting credentials to certain influential men and 
in making a general survey of the situation relative to the preva- 
lence of fungous diseases in the vicinity. On the 25th, we went 
on by train to Barceloneta, on the north shore, in the heart of 
the grape-fruit and pineapple plantations of the Island. Many 
Americans have settled in this district, from San Juan to Arecibo, 
and have gone largely into the business of fruit growing. We 
