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The Public and the Garden 
Attendance.—Under the present simple organization of the 
Garden there are no guards at the various gates, and we have no 
means of ascertaining the number of visitors, except by rough 
estimate. In general it may be said that the attendance is increas- 
ing. Since plants were placed in the northeast wing of the con- 
servatory there have been daily visitors there, amounting, on 
pleasant Sundays, to between 100 and 200. The library is con- 
sulted almost daily by persons outside the Garden staff, and calls 
for the identification of plants, or for other botanical information, 
are becoming increasingly frequent. 
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Acknowledgments 
The office accommodations and innumerable other courtesies so 
freely extended by the director and members of staff of the Cen- 
tral Museum since September, 1910, were continued until Sep- 
tember, 1913, when the Garden offices were transferred to our 
new building. It is a pleasure to record here renewed expressions 
of appreciation of these courtesies. 
The gift, by Mrs. Annie Morrill Smith, of her valuable her- 
barium of mosses, hepatics, and lichens, together with miscel- 
laneous botanical publications and pieces of apparatus, is the 
largest single gift, with one exception, ever received by the 
Garden. For this, and also for other gifts of herbarium material 
by Mr. Harold Wingate (Myxomycetes), Mr. D. G. Banks 
(Algae), Mrs. C. Strieff (Phanerogams),and Dr, R. M. Harper 
(Georgia plants), as recorded in detail in the appended reports of 
the curator of plants and the curator of public instruction (pp. 
56 and 6r), the Garden expresses its best thanks. 
Grateful acknowledgment is also made of the gift to the 
library, by Prof. Dr. Julius von Wiesner, professor of botany in 
the Imperial University at Vienna, of separate reprints of all of 
his published papers now available, together with his portrait, and 
of books presented by Mr. Alfred T. White, Mr. George De: 
Pratt, and others as recorded in the appended report of the 
libfarian (p. 05). 
The thanks of the Garden are due to Mr. Dick S. Ramsey for 
the gift of four large century plants (Agave americana), said to 
