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A new type of all steel show label for herbaceous plants, four 
on a single standard, was perfected during the year, and over 600 
of them put out. It is planned to replace the wooden labels as 
they wear out with the new type which is well above the ground 
and anchored firmly. They are in every way more satisfactory 
than the old type. The total of labels made during the year was 
878, besides many signs, notices, etc. 
Phanerogamic Herbarium 
Several noteworthy collections have been added during 1919. 
Among the more important accessions were: Twenty-four Ha- 
waiian ferns as a gift, Miss Josephine Culbertson; 4,000 speci- 
mens from Long Island and vicinity as a gift, Miss Fanny A. 
Mulford; 6,000 specimens collected at the Arnold Arboretum, 
purchased, Mr. Camillio Schneider, of Vienna; 21 miscellaneous 
specimens from New York, New Jersey and Vermont, as a gift, 
Dr. H. M. Denslow; 1,669 specimens, of which 372 were col- 
lected on Long Island, as a gift, R. G. Eccles, M.D. 
Of these, the specimens collected by Camillio Schneider are of 
particular importance in naming up our woody collections. That 
of Miss Mulford is a very welcome addition to our Long Island 
herbarium. My own collecting includes sets of plants from Mt. 
McIntyre, Mt. Marcy, Mt. Skylight, in the Adirondacks, and 
additions to the Long Island herbarium. The specimens mounted 
during the year were 6,934. 
Personal Activities 
Asa member of the committee on cooperation of the Ecological 
Society of America, I undertook with others the survey of the 
region above timber line on Mt. Marcy. A report of this work, 
including plant and animal studies, is now ready for publication, 
and in addition the Garden has received a number of Alpine 
plants for the Rock Garden as a result of this work. My in- 
ability to get on Gardiners Island has delayed my studies on the 
Long Island vegetation, but expeditions to Montauk, Easthamp- 
ton, and places nearer home has resulted in additions to the her- 
barium and many notes. Less time was given to such work this 
