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the “Bahama Flora,”’ and work is under way on the Porto 
Rican fungi for a similar flora. A number of museum 
specimens have been installed; also several illustrations for 
the swinging frames. Local collecting has been continued 
and one week was spent at Ithaca, New York, collecting 
in cooperation with Cornell University and Syracuse 
University. About two hundred specimens were obtained. 
One lecture has been given in the regular Saturday course; 
also one lecture and one demonstration given before the 
class in gardening for convalescent soldiers. Work has 
been continued on destructive insects. One paper and 
several notes were published on this subject during the 
year. He represented the Garden during two days of the 
session of the meeting of the international potato patholo- 
gists on Long Island. 
Mr. Percy Wilson, Associate Curator, has continued his 
studies of tropical American plants and the arrangement 
and distribution of specimens and has devoted considerable 
time to cooperation with the Director-in-Chief in the 
preparation of a flora of Cuba. His duties as docent have 
been greatly increased through numerous requests received 
both from public and private schools desiring special 
instruction for their pupils. He has also assisted in many 
of the Saturday afternoon lectures. 
Dr. Francis W. Pennell, Associate Curator, gave atten- 
tion mainly to his monographic studies of the Scrophu- 
lariaceae, and to the arrangement of specimens, completing 
revisions of this family for the local flora and for the 
southeastern United States, and commencing and carrying 
to partial completion like treatments for Colombia, for 
Panama, for Cuba, and for Ecuador. Also he has made 
further advance in his revision of these plants for the 
Central Rocky Mountain States. Papers, embodying the 
results of these studies, are appearing, or are soon to appear, 
in various journals. In addition to work upon the Scrophu- 
lariaceae, he has continued his ‘‘Notes on Plants of the 
Southern United States,” and has published a synopsis of 
