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Phanerogamic Herbarium 



Among the collections obtained last year were from Dr. O. E. 

 White 542 specimens from Bolivia, collected on the Mulford 

 expedition; from Dr. Robert Cushman Murphy of the American 

 Museum of Natural History, 34 specimens from the South Sea 

 Islands; from Canton Christian College, 106 specimens from 

 China; from Dr. R. R. Stewart, 522 specimens from the Punjab 

 and Kashmir; from the Botanic Garden of Cluj, 104 specimens 

 from Roumania; from Mr. W. E. Broadway, 115 specimens from 

 Trinidad; from Miss Anna Heyward Taylor, 32 specimens from 

 British Guiana; from Dr. R. C. Benedict, 37 specimens from 

 West Virginia. 



About 1,800 specimens were mounted and distributed. The 

 cases now allow room for little additional material. 



Classes 



In the spring I gave fonr lectures on "The Story of Plant 

 Evolution" at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, followed by an out- 

 door course of eight lessons on "Spring Flowers and Ferns." In 

 the fall an outdoor course of six lessons w^as given on "Fall 

 Flowers and Fruits." 



Botanical Society of America 



At the meeting of the Systematic Section in Cincinnati, in 

 1923, a committee (Dr. M. L. Fernald, Dr. H. A. Gleason, and 

 the undersigned, chairman) was appointed "to consider the 

 preparation of a comparative list of generic names in current 

 use for the United States and Canada." A report was sub- 

 mitted at the W^ashington meeting, December, 1924, showing, in 

 columns, usage in eleven standard works as to a few families. 

 The Section voted to continue the committee with the provision 

 that a member from the W'est be added. 



Assistants 



Mrs. Margaret Burdick, now Mrs. F. W. Putz, after ten years 

 of faithful and efficient service resigned in November. She was 



