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similar work at Montauk and Amagansett, L. I.; on this occasion 
I acted as guide for a field trip planned by the Department of 
Botany of the Institute. The Arnold Arboretum was visited on 
November ro and 11, and from there I went to Pen Yan, N. Y., 
to inspect the herbarium of S. Hart Wright, offered for sale, re- 
turning on November 15. 
I have continued the editing of Torreya, and my studies on the 
local flora are now practically ready for printing. They will 
appear as a Memoir of the New York Botanical Garden, where 
the work was started in January, 1909. Since my appointment 
here I have completed the work, much of which has been done at 
the New York Garden. For the many courtesies of the director 
and staff of that institution I here gratefully express my apprecia- 
tion. 
Outside activities, carried on in other than Garden time, include 
botanical reviewing for the Nation and the Evening Post, and the 
preparation of over three hundred articles for Bailey’s Standard 
Cyclopedia of Horticulture. 
Respectfully ae 
N TAYLOR, 
ates of Plants. 

REPORT OF THE CURATOR OF PUBLIC INSTRUC- 
TION FOR 1913 
Dr. C. STUART GAGER, DIRECTOR. 
Sir: I have the honor to submit herewith my report as curator 
of public instruction for the year ending December 31, 1913. 
ne of the most popular features of the educational activities 
undertaken during the past year has been the Leaflets, issued 
weekly or bi-weekly during the months of April, May, June, Sep- 
tember and October. In the first series, there were issued in all 
fourteen numbers, eleven of which were four-page bulletins, three 
were eight-page. The many requests for extra copies and the 
consequent rapid exhaustion of the greater part of our supply 
of Leaflets shortly after they were published, testifies to the suc- 
cess of this means of presenting popular and elementary informa- 
tion on botanical subjects and on nature study to the friends of 
the Garden, and to the teachers and pupils of our local schools. 
