received some additions and revisions; and the local flora section 
was greatly enlarged, both as to number of species and number 
of beds. One of the most important and popular of the added 
features was the shaded path, opened through the trees and 
shrubs on the border mound at the west edge of the section, and 
planted with large numbers of the native wild flowers that require 
shade. Further details of these operations are given in the ac- 
companying report of the curator of plants (pp. 46-59), infra). 
During the year many plants for the systematic section were 
started, and over 640 different species of shrubs, trees, and vines 
were obtained by purchase and exchange. The initial planting 
of the pinetum, grouped around the lake and comprising 18 
genera and 132 species and varieties; the enlargement of the 
nursery, and the planting of willows and alders along the brook, 
and of twenty species of hardy water-lilies in the lake, is referred 
to in detail in the report of the curator of plants. 
Appointments 
During 1912 four appointments were made to the staff, as 
follows: 
January 1. Mr. Harold A. Caparn, as consulting landscape 
architect. During 1911 the need was felt of a local consulting 
landscape architect, who might be readily and frequently con- 
sulted with reference to the details of the plan of the landscape 
architects, Messrs. Olmsted Bros., whose offices are in Brookline, 
ass. The appointment was made with the hearty approval of 
the landscape architects. Mr. Caparn was the landscape archi- 
tect of the city parks of Yonkers, N. Y., Corning, N. Y., Newark, 
N. J., and of the Zoological Park in New York City, from IQOI 
to 1906. He was also president of the American Society of 
Landscape Architects for 1912, and is lecturer in landscape ar- 
chitecture in Columbia University. The experience of the past 
year in laying out our plantations has demonstrated the wisdom 
of having such a member on our staff, especially during these 
early stages of the development of the grounds. 
William Mansfield, as honorary curator of 
economic plants. Dr. Mansfield’s duties will be chiefly with 
reference to the medicinal plants, which are to form a division 
of our economic section. He is professor of pharmacology in 
