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Dr. Marshall A. Howe, Curator, continued to have 
charge of the collections of Algae and Hepaticae. His 
principal publications of the year have been an account of 
the algae of the Bahamas, comprising sixty-six pages of 
Britton and Millspaugh’s Bahama Flora, which appeared in 
June, and a paper entitled ‘‘Observations on Monospor- 
angial Discs in the Genus Liagora’”’ contributed to the 
Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club. He has given con- 
siderable time to the study of specimens of marine algae 
obtained by several expeditions to Porto Rico, and also to 
distributing duplicates of Bahama algae. Somewhat more 
than 3,400 specimens were sent to twenty-one institutions 
in the United States and Europe, especially to those in 
which studies of the marine algae are being carried on and 
with which exchange relations have been established. Dr. 
Howe has given four lectures in the Saturday afternoon 
courses during the year, and has conducted a special course 
in the study of the algae. He has continued to act as an 
associate editor of the publications of the Torrey Botanical 
Club and as a member of the Council of the New York 
Academy of Sciences. Asa collateral line of activity he has 
again had charge of the dahlia border, which has developed 
into one of the most popular attractions of the Garden. 
Dr. Fred J. Seaver, Curator, was in charge of the collec- 
tions of lower fungi, the higher fungi being looked after 
by Dr. W. A. Murrill. Collecting and research have been 
continued on the various groups of ascomycetes especially 
the cup-fungi. Manuscript on the genus Phyllosticta has 
been practically completed for North American Flora. 
Considerable time has been used in compiling a list of the 
species of Porto Rican fungi to be used by Dr. Britton in 
his flora of Porto Rico; also in the study of the genus 
Phyllachora, a group of parasitic fungi which are especially 
abundant in the tropics. Scveral papers were published 
during the ycar and one lecture was given in the regular 
Saturday afternoon course. A number of museum speci- 
