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tion; it is desirable that field work should be prosecuted 
as actively as possible with any funds that may be made 
available and plans for 1921 contemplate several expedi- 
tions for which provision has already been made. 
Dr. Small, Head Curator, continued field work in Florida 
and elsewhere in the southeastern states in the spring and 
in the autumn, made possible by the liberal financial 
aid-of Mr. Charles Deering, and obtained extensive and 
important series of plants and specimens which have been 
partly studied; some of Dr. Small’s observations on these 
trips and on previous ones have been published during the 
year.* 
Large collections of specimens made in Cuba by our 
valued correspondents Brother Leon, Brother Hioram and 
Dr. Juan T. Roig have added much to knowledge of the 
vegetation of that island and have made more complete 
the catalogue of the Cuban Flora. 
Public Instruction and Information 
Public instruction by lecturers and by docents has been 
continued. Lectures have been delivered on Saturday 
afternoons from February 21 to December 11, either in 
the museum building or in the central display greenhouse, 
and on Sunday afternoons during the spring and autumn 
in the museum building; the Sunday afternoon lectures, 
first given this year, were received with much appreciation 
and it now appears desirable to have them delivered through 
the summer as well as in spring and autumn. A special 
lecture fund or funds with available income of about 
$2,000 a year, for the payment of lecturers other than 
members of the staff, and for sundry lecture expenses 
would provide much needed addition to endowment. 
Instruction by docents has also been continued, with 
increasing requests for this service. Dr. Murrill, Super- 
visor of Public Instruction, Mr. Williams, Administrative 
Assistant, Mr. Wilson, Associate Curator, and Mr. Becker, 
* See Journal N. Y. Bot. Gard. 21: 25-38; 45-54; 81-86; 161-178. 
