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to the arboretum to secure the cuttings, Mr. Borin returning 
with part of them on July 2, and Mr. Lemborg with the remain- 
der on the following day. 
pou 
The appended report of the curator of plants (pp. 46-59) 
refers to his trip, on October 21-25, to visit the park department 
at Rochester, N. Y., and to the Arnold Arboretum, at Jamaica 
Plain, Mass. At Rochester about 130 species of shrubs and 
trees, new to our collections, were obtained as an exchange 
courtesy, and at the Arnold Arboretum 514 species of shrubs, 
trees, and vines were purchased, including representatives of 
over 375 species of Chinese plants from the Wilson collection. 
The curator of public instruction also gives a report of his 
visits to the Missouri Botanical Garden and the Phipps Hall of 
Botany (p. 60 infra; and Brooklyn Bot. Gard. Recorp, 2: 12-14. 
Ja 1913). 
On November 7-9 the director was absent on leave to attend 
the laying of the corner-stone of the new museum and library 
building of the Letchworth Park Arboretum, in the Genesee 
Valley, near Castile, N. Y. 
The Garden was represented by the director at the annual 
meeting of the Botanical Society of America, at Cleveland, Ohio, 
during the last week in December, and by the curator of public 
instruction at the annual meeting of the American Phytopatho- 
logical Society, at the same time and place. On the trip to 
Cleveland, a stop-over was made, on December 30, at Buffalo, 
N. Y., to visit the botanic garden there. 
The Library 
The rapid growth of our collections of plants and the in- 
crease in our scientific staff make the need of greater library 
facilities increasingly urgent. In the Garden Rrcorp for Oc- 
tober, 1912, a statement was made of some of the more important 
publications needed, together with a plan by which the expense 
of obtaining them might be met. In response to this statement, 
a gift of one thousand dollars was received from Mr. Alfred T. 
White, most of which has been expended, and correspondence 
is now in progress with reference to a probable further gift of 
five hundred dollars from other friends of the Garden. ‘The 
statement in the first annual report may be repeated here, that, 
