The Alfred T. White Scholarship this year was presented to 

 Robertson Pratt, former]}-- of Erasmus Hall High School and 

 now of Columbia Cniversity. 



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Respectfully submitted, 



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Sir: I beg to submit herewith my report for the year 1927. 



European Trip 

 I returned February t, 1927, after an absence of five months in 

 Europe. After thirteen years in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, I 

 had a desire to see Kuropeau botanic gardens and to learn directly 

 of their lines of activity. I visited twenty botanical institutions 

 in Scandinavia, Germany, Switzerland, France, and England. 1 

 wanted especially to know of the possibility of more satisfactory 

 cooperation in connection with the exchange of seeds and plants. 

 The question of international plan! lists for the development of 

 botanic gardens had been taken up by correspondence in our 

 "International Seed Exchange Communications." While the 

 advantages of greater internalional uniformity are recognized, 

 various practical difficulties exist in die way of changes toward 

 uniformity. Learning of the many different points of view was 

 most instructive. All botanists hope for progress in this direc- 

 tion as one of the results of lb iq , - Inn m ttiou il i'.otanical Con- 

 gress to be held in England. I was impressed by the apparent 

 readiness of smaller institutions to follow the lead of larger ones. 

 I left New York on SS Bergensf jord, August 28, 1926, for 

 Bergen, Norway. J crossed on the scenic mountain railway from 



