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iment numbers 20-1 to 20-35 were assigned during 

 the year to a total of 495 different plants which were added to 

 the synoptic collections. 



The work of looking after the records of the living coIlectionSj 

 their labelling, accessioning, etc.^ has been, as before, under the 

 supervision of Dr. Gundcrsen wuth the help of Mrs. Margaret 

 Burdick, and, for part of the time, that of Miss ^largaret Chapin. 

 A revised list of the conservatory collections, and of the her- 

 baceous plants has been prepared^ based on inventories .made 

 during IQIQ^ and a new list of the genera in the Garden prepared. 

 An inventory was also made of the plants in the frames and propa- 



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gating houses. Maps are complete of all outdoor collections and 

 now safeguard our records, no matter what vandals may do to the 

 labels. 



One useful addition to the herbarium collection has been pre- 

 pared by Miss Chapin. It consists of a named set of fruits, usu- 

 ally those too bulky to be mounted. They are in boxes, properly 

 labelled and arranged an such fashion as to be readily available. 



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Specimens mounted during the year totalled 2,857 which is 

 about one third of the number during the previous year. Space 

 in the Herbarium cases is very nearly filled to capacit}'^ and that 

 is the chiel reason why mounting has been retarded. There are 

 now over twenty thousand unmounted specimens in the Her- 

 barium work room that should be mounted and made available, 

 but more herDarium cases are needed before this can be done. 



The largest accession (by purchase) was the collection of the 

 Rev. L. H. Lijhthipe, consisting of over seven thousand speci- 

 mens, nearly al'. mounted and which have been sorted into the 



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Gifts to the herbarium are listed in Ap- 



general Herbarium. 



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Personal Activities 



The work, noted in my last report, on ]\It. i\Iarcy was pub- 

 lished in Ecology antl reprinted as the Brooklyn Botanic Garden 

 ContrihiitioyiSj No. 24; Tliat part of it dealing with the vegeta- 

 tion was w^ritten by me while the balance of the report of *.' Plants 



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