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The writer, in addition to the general and detailed 
curatorial duties connected with the public and research 
collections, continued his studies in systematic and regional 
botany, especially in relation to the plants of the south- 
eastern United States. Articles for the Journal and 
Addisonia were written, and several were published. Two 
papers also appeared in the journals of other institutions. 
The recent discoveries connected with the box-huckleberry, 
and the problems involved, as well as range-extension of 
certain prickly-pears, led him to devote a few days in 
August to explorations in the Delaware peninsula and in 
eastern Pennsylvania. Besides general herbarium speci- 
mens and various living specimens, he secured colonies of 
the box-huckleberry from the three known wild plants for 
transplanting in the Garden. He devoted several weeks, 
during the early spring and the late fall, to exploration and 
study in Florida. The special objects of search and in- 
vestigation in the field were palms (Pseudophoenix, Pauro- 
tis), cacti (Opuntia, Harrisia), wild-pepper plants (Peper- 
omta), lilies (Crinum), spider-lilies (Hymenocallis), coonties 
(Zamia), and century-plants (dgave). Success attended 
all the writer’s efforts, and living specimens in quantity 
were brought together for study-plantations under glass 
at the Garden and in the open in Charles Deering’s reserva- 
tions at Buena Vista and at Cutler, Florida, where almost 
unlimited facilities for experimenting and investigation, 
as well as for exploration, have been put at his disposal by 
Mr. Deering. The cactus plantation at Buena Vista, 
which has already been of such signal service in connection 
with your studies in the Cactaceae, was enlarged through 
your generosity as well as through that of others. A 
century-plant plantation was installed at Cutler, to which 
specimens were contributed from the duplicate collections 
of the Garden. Numerous experiments in planting and 
in the effects of environment were incidentally inaugurated 
in both reservations referred to above during periods of 
field-work in Florida. The main results of the field work, 
