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the American Museum of Natural History during the week set 
aside for the biology departments of the high schools of greater 
ew York. 
Mounted specimens of plants were also hung up in the exhibit 
room of the Garden during the exhibition of “ Plant Natives and 
Immigrants,” which was held in October. 
Three card catalogs of labels were completed. They include the 
names of woody, conservatory, and herbaceous plants in so far as 
labels have actually been made. This will facilitate labeling the 
remainder of the collections. 
Phanerogamic Herbarium 
The total number of herbarium specimens acquired during the 
year was 9,088, of which 1,129 were given to the Garden, 2,130 
received in exchange, and 5,829 were purchased. Only 894 speci- 
mens were actually mounted, so that we are acquiring collections 
faster than they can be cared for. New herbarium cases and the 
services of a mounter are urgently needed to make available the 
stored material now on 
Much more important is the necessity for the appointment of a 
keeper of the herbarium whose interest and training is wholly in 
systematic botany. Our herbarium will not be of first-rate use- 
fulness until it has been thoroughly gone over for a period of years 
by such a man. At present we do little more than look after its 
mechanical condition, fumigate it, etc.; but it is high time that 
more attention was given to the taxonomic revision of the material. 
Among the gifts which are listed elsewhere a particularly useful 
one just now is that of William C. Ferguson, Esq., of over six 
hundred plants from Long Island. His collections, which are very 
carefully identified, are a distinct contribution to the “Flora of 
Long Island,” which is in preparation. 
Miscellaneous Statistics 
Phanerogamic Herbarium 
Distribution by Exchange 
To Dr. L. H. Bailey, Ithaca, New York, 105 pressed specimens 
of Nephrolepis varieties, cultivated at the Brooklyn Botanic 
Garden by Dr. R. C. Benedict. 
