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STATISTICS RELATING TO LIVING PLANTS 
Living Plants Recewwed: 
Species or 
Varieties Plants 
By Collection. ..caiwdteavuasacia Pea epewerh es 87 1,329 
By CXNCHANOE- cdcucnits th Nia cam peoaionedens 210 419 
Biyert -tecsec ans iG aot Miae te Pe haeaeeaes 281 1,443 
By: PUrehaSe” A0chosc cue nanedeee tetany Sh dent 289 11,671 
By SCGG vec shee Beaten eee inte es ae ee 550 a8 
MOU sxhse sce aan niet aden eee eLnae 1417 15,412 
Living Plants Distributed: 
To members, etc. 0.2.0... 0c eens 6 3,924 
Biv SOUT t-oe cece auked Wed tea aie ee ed woes eared 1] 20 
By exXChanee@ -o.cilis bs Wace odin aniean dia oebne 226 226 
T 243 4.170 
P THE ASSOCIATE CURATOR: OF PLANTS 
FOR 1933 
REPORT 
Dr. C. StuART GAGER, DIRECTOR, 
Sir: [submit herewith my report for the year ending Decembet 
ol; 1933. 
Tue HERBARIUM 
From January to March and from October to the end of De- 
cember the herbarium had the services of two people from the 
emergency Work Bureau. They were engaged) primarily in 
mounting and cleaning specimens, in continuation of work which 
they had done for us the preceding year. ‘The total number of 
plants mounted was 2,214 which brings the number of sheets im 
the herbarium of flowering plants and vascular cryptogams to 
approximately 109,000. By most botanic gardens the herbarium 
is considered as their most important single feature, representing 
as it does the basis of plant records in the publications in the 
library and the accumulated results of years of exploration, and 
providing the only exact basis for identification of plants. 
he Long Island His- 
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Through the inclusion of the herbaria of t 
