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Economic Museum. His duties as docent were carried 
out as in former years, and incidentally he took charge of 
many of the Saturday afternoon public lectures. 
Dr. Francis W. Pennell, Associate Curator, returned in 
April from a botanical expedition to Colombia, and on 
May 1 resumed his active connection with the Garden. 
The collections made in Colombia, comprising nearly 
4,800 numbers, have been sorted and one set mounted for 
study, while the remainder are being prepared for distri- 
bution to other institutions. Beside work upon these he 
continued studies in the figwort family as represented in 
the southeastern and in the central Rocky Mountain states 
and also in the local flora. In June Dr. Pennell resumed 
editorial supervision of the Journal. He gave one lecture 
in the regular Garden lecture course. 
Dr. H. H. Rusby, Honorary Curator of the Economic 
Collections, developed the Museum of Economic botany. 
(See his report.) 
N. L. Britton, Honorary Curator of Mosses, 
developed the moss herbarium. (See her report.) 
Dr. Arthur Hollick, Honorary Curator of Fossil Plants, 
developed the fossil plant museum. (See his report.) 
The writer, in addition to numerous major and minor 
curatorial details, continued work on North American 
Flora and carried further toward completion our knowledge 
of the plants and phytogeography of Florida during several 
weeks exploration in April and May, and also during a 
short trip in December. A report on the field work of 
these excursions is in preparation, as are also a number of 
papers or monographs on various groups of plants on lines 
suggested by observations during recent and current field 
work and augmented by study collections. In connection- 
too, with our spring excursion, Miss Mary E. Eaton, Artist, 
detailed by you to go to Florida, made twenty-odd paint- 
ings of rare or otherwise interesting flowering plants of south- 
ern Florida for forthcoming issues of Addisonia. I have 
published two small illustrated handbooks on the ferns of 
