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Country Life it America, and as managing editor of the National 
Plant, Flower and Fruit Guild Magazine. The curator of public 
instruction has given eight public lectures and addresses before 
high schools, scientific societies and various other organizations 
during the past year; besides conducting field meetings and ex- 
cursions for the Department of Botany of the Brooklyn Institute 
at Queens, L. I., and for pharmacists of New York City at the 
Brooklyn Botanic Garden. The week from December 28 till 
January 2, 1914, I spent in Atlanta, Ga., in company with the 
director, attending the meetings of the American Association for 
the Advancement of Science and those of the affiliated Botanical 
Society of America and the American Phytopathological Society. 
Two papers by members of the staff of the Garden, Dr. White 
and Mr. Bisby, were read at these meetings. 
The meetings of the seminar of the Garden staff and invited 
members were resumed on November 6 and continued fortnightly 
throughout the year. A Journal Club, founded for the purpose 
of reviewing and keeping in touch with current botanical litera- 
ture was also organized late in the fall, meeting biweekly, on 
Mondays, alternating with the seminar. Teachers of botany in 
local schools, and others who might be interested, were invited 
to join in this stimulating activity. 
The Cryptogamic Herbarium 
That part of the herbarium embracing the mosses, hepatics, 
lichens, fungi and algae having been placed in charge of this de- 
partment, I include in this report a tabular list of acquisitions of 
these plants so far received, together with data concerning their 
numbers, and source. This herbarium, as well as the larger her- 
barium of ferns and seed-bearing plants, have, during the short 
time since they have been accessible in our new building, been 
consulted by a number of teachers and others. It is anticipated 
that they will be much utilized outside of our own staff, as soon 
as we complete their arrangement into a permanent, usable sys- 
tem. A special point in this connection, perhaps worthy of note, 
is our use of a vertical filing system for the fungous herbarium. 
There can be no doubt of the greater convenience and greater 
ease of consultation with this vertical system, which also seems to 
afford much greater economy of space. 
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