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year, brought his Hawaiian collection of this genus for identifica- 
tion, and contributed a good series of herbarium specimens. 
Three graduate students of Columbia, who had used fern 
material from the Botanic Garden in research, completed their 
degree work and have prepared papers for publication, to appear 
in 1938. 
PLANT CONSERVATION 
There is a never-ending interest in the subject of the conserva- 
tion of native plants, as indicated by occasional letters and 
requests for information. Another culture of the hart’s-tongue 
fern has been raised for distribution. A paper on the raising 
of ferns from spores is in the process of printing, through which 
interest in the multiplication of native species, it is hoped, may 
be fostered. 
During 1937, a textbook designed for high school biology has 
been put through the press, under the authorship of R. C. Bene- 
dict, W. W. Iknox, and G. K. Stone, and will be published early in 
1938. The Brooklyn Botanic Garden is well represented in this 
text in the form of experimental work carried on here, and in 
numerous pictures for which grateful acknowledgment is made. 
Respectfully submitted, 
Rautpu C. BENEDICT, 
Resident Investigator (Ferns). 
REPORT OF THE RESIDENT INVESTIGATOR 
(ECONOMIC PLANTS) FOR 1937 
Dr. C. StTuART GAGER, DIRECTOR. 
Sir: I herewith submit a report of the activities of the Resident 
Investigator for Economic Plants during 1937. With the consent 
of the Garden, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden-Long Island 
University Course (B-15, 16) in Economic Plants, was omitted 
during the 1937-1938 academic year. Plans for the rearrange- 
ment of the plants in the Economic House were determined in 
conference with Mr. Montague Free, the Botanic Garden 
Horticulturist. A living collection of twenty species of her- 
