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among these being a form for indexing and taking inventory 
of all equipment and supplies of the office, laboratories and 
garden, and an index of the botanical gardens of the world, 
arranged according to countries, and containing 438 names. 
In connection with the canvass for votes for names to be 
placed on the exterior of our Laboratory and Instruction Build- 
ing, one hundred and fifty circular letters, accompanied by lists 
of former renowned botanists of the world, have been sent to 
botanists in our own country, with the request that they express 
their opinion as to the names most worthy of a place on the 
building. Circular letters were also sent to forty-eight members 
of the Department of Botany of The Brooklyn Institute of Arts 
and Sciences, giving a list of the wild plants needed by the Gar- 
den in developing the local flora section. These, with the three 
hundred circular letters sent to botanical gardens and agricul- 
tural departments of the world, bring the number of circular 
letters mailed to about five hundred. An invitation was also 
forwarded to the individual members of the Department of 
Botany of The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences to join 
the Torrey Botanical Club trip to Slide Mountain, Ulster Coun- 
ty, under the guidance of Mr. Norman Taylor, on June 17-21, 
IO11. 
A system for accessioning plants has been begun and a record of 
all plants acquired by the Garden during the year has been typed 
in permanent form on blanks (Form No. 25), specially devised 
for this purpose. The great desirability of having this record 
as permanent as possible led to a study of various devices for 
insuring permanency of record. Coal-tar inks, such as are 
used for typewriter ribbons, fade out in a few years, while if 
India ink is used, the record must be made by hand. The 
final decision has been to make the accession record in duplicate 
on the typewriter, and retain, as the permanent copy, the carbon 
duplicate, made in this instance on the hest linen-rag paper. 
These records will probably prove as permanent as any that can 
be had. 
Respectfully submitted, 
BertHa M. Eves, 
Secretary and Librarian. 
