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ready for printing in the spring. Details of this work will 
be found in Dr. Rusby’s report hereto appended. The 
newly incorporated specimens require mounting and label- 
ing. 
2. Systematic Museum 
Some additions have been made to these collections on 
the second floor of the museum building. It is hoped that 
through further exploration of regions botanically little 
known, many specimens of fruits, seeds and other plant 
products may be obtained for further illustration of the 
families of plants. 
It has now become desirable to transfer some of the 
collections on the third floor of the museum to the second 
floor, in order to relieve the crowding of specimens, and 
it is proposed to put the plan in operation which was 
approved by the Scientific Directors several years ago, by 
bringing the entire collections of fungi from the third floor 
to the second, where they would be installed in the western 
wing. About 30 additional museum and herbarium cases 
will be required to effect this transferral satisfactorily. 
3. Paleobotanical Museum 
The report of the Honorary Curator of the Collection 
of Fossil Plants hereto appended refers to work accom- 
plished on this collection, and notes progress made in the 
study of the fossil plants obtained from Porto Rico and 
from Cuba, these yielding the first knowledge which has 
been obtained concerning the ancestors of living plants of 
the West Indies; discoveries made in Cuba during the 
past year by Brother Leon, of the College of La Salle in 
Havana, have opened up a field which will certainly yield 
material of great scientific value as types of undescribed 
species, and it is highly desirable that the localities found 
to yield fossil plants by him and by his associates should 
be thoroughly explored. 
