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In accordance with action taken by the Executive Committee of 
the Board of Trustees on October 14, 1913, the herbarium of the 
Brooklyn Institute, comprising approximately 30,000 specimens, 
formerly housed in the Museum building, has been transferred to 
the Botanic Garden building, and forms the nucleus of the Garden 
herbarium. In addition to this, between 45,000 and 50,000 speci- 
mens have been added to the herbarium by the Garden during the 
past year. 
The Garden is indebted to Mr. Dick S. Ramsay for the gift 
of four large century plants (Agave Americana), which were 
received from Easton, Pa., on November 109. 
Recent additions to the herbarium include 2,200 specimens of 
the Fungi Columbiani, and 800 North American Uredinales, of 
FE. Bartholomew, making a total of 3,000 specimens. 
Mr. Alfred T. White, chairman of the committee on botanic 
garden of the board of trustees, has presented the Garden library 
with two rare and interesting volumes. The first is a copy of 
“The American Physitian; or, a Treatise of the Roots, Plants, 
Trees, Shrubs, Fruits, Herbs, etc., Growing in the English Plan- 
tations in America. Describing the Place, Time, Names, Kindes, 
Temperature, Vertues and uses of them, either for Diet, Physick, 
etc., Whereunto is added a Discourse of the Cacao-Nut-Tree, and 
the Use of its Fruit; with all the ways of making Chocolate. The 
like never extant before. By W. Hughes. London, Printed by 
J.C. for William Crook, at the Green Dragon without Temple- 
Bar, 1672.” The volume is a perfect copy of the very rare first 
edition, bound in Russia extra, gilt edge, by C. Lewis. The second 
volume is a copy of the “ Musaeum Tradescantianum: or, A Col- 
lection of Rarities. Preserved at South Lambeth neer London. 
By John Tradescant, London, 1656.” 
On Saturday, October 18th, the senior class of the Yale School 
of Forestry, accompanied by their instructor, Mr. J. J. Levison, 
made their second annual visit to the Garden. The class this year 
numbers sixteen. 
During the past semester an arrangement was entered into be- 
tween the trustees of The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sci- 
ences and the trustees of the Brooklyn Public Library, through the 
