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Details of plants and planting will be found in the report 
of the Head Gardener hereto appended. 
Museums 
The revision and cataloguing of the specimens forming 
the economic museum commenced last year by Dr. H. H. 
Rusby, Honorary Curator, was continued by him at 
intervals during the year, but it was not found possible 
to complete the catalogue for printing, this task proving 
too great for the time at his command. His report hereto 
appended al that this very important work may 
soon be finis 
A eet modification was made in the systematic 
museum on the second floor of the museum building by 
moving the cases and their contents from the western wing 
to the adjoining hall, and thus making the western hall 
available for the herbarium specimens of fungi moved 
from the upper floor of the building to relieve congestion 
there; laboratories and offices for the Supervisor of Public 
Instruction, Dr. Murrill, and for Curators Seaver and 
Howe were provided, and the herbarium collections of 
algae still on the upper floor will be moved to the second 
floor as soon as possible. The microscopic exhibits set 
up for the use of the public in the west wing were moved 
to the mezzanine floor in the middle of the building, 
readjusted and renewed. 
he museum of fossil plants on the basement floor of the 
museum building has been somewhat increased as recorded 
in the report of the Honorary Curator of Fossil Plants, 
Dr. Hollick, hereto appended; his investigations of foul 
plants of the West Indies were continued. No essential 
change was made in the display series of specimens. Addi- 
tional cases here would permit the exhibition of many 
interesting specimens now in storage. 
Some 24,000 herbarium specimens previously mounted 
and held in storage were incorporated into the permanent 
collections, this requiring almost all the case room avail- 
