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176 BOTANICAL GAZETTE 
schools. An active exchange has been maintained with ¢ 
establishments. 91,262 persons visited the garden, which was 
20,000 more than in any previous year. On each of the only 
afternoons during which the garden is open about 20,000 pe 
the visitors on these two days amounting to-45 per cent. of the 
for the year. 16,256 sheets of specimens were added to th 
nearly 7,000 by gift or exchange, 5,544 by purchase. The nur 
mens now in the herbarium is estimated at about 365,000. T 
the library number 929 books, and 254 pamphlets, making a 
1,184 serials are received at the library, of which Iof are put 
remainder, issued by 643 institutions, are presented or receiv! 
The gross receipts of the garden were $125,690.73, of whic 
spent for maintenance and improvement of the garden itself. 
THE Comptes Rendus for December 16 contains the annual 
of prizes. The strictly botanical prizes have been awarded 
Prix Bordin to Matruchot and Molliard for their work on 
ing and the lack of oxygen on cells, and for physiological 
coccus; the Prix Desmaziéres to Hirn for his * Monographie 
des Oedogoniacées ;"” the Prix Montagne to Mazé for his 
ism of legume tubercles; the Prix de La Fons-Mélicocq ' 
Sees was ig iuarded to Miranie foe his anatomical 
on the Cuscutaceae. 
_ Among the prizes and subjects for the coming y 
of angiosperms; the Prix Desmaziéres, open ‘to eee : 
tise on cryptogams; the Prix a for or : 
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