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your special attention to the care that has been exercised 
in maintaining the scientific and literary standards under 
which they were established. 
In addition to our regular periodicals, we have published 
three parts of North American Flora. 
There has also appeared a paper by Mr. Williams on 
Philippine mosses, based chiefly on the results of study of 
his own collections in those islands. 
Reference should here be made to the publication, in 
recent numbers of the Journal, of the symposium of 
lectures of 1913 on Vegetable Foods. Almost every 
phase of the subject is treated in these publications, which 
render the 15th volume of the Journal of exceptional 
interest. In the July number of the Journal, is printed in 
form for convenient reference, our Act of Incorporation, 
Constitution, By-Laws, Regulations for the Office of 
Director-in-Chief, Provisions for Contributing Membership, 
and Provisions of the Charter of the City of New York for 
Maintenance. 
Although not actually published by the Garden, an 
important paper by Dr. Howe on the “Marine Algae of 
Peru,” which forms the 15th volume of the Memoirs of the 
Torrey Botanical Club, should here be mentioned. This 
work was performed by Dr. Howe in association with the 
Peruvian Government. 
The contemplated publication of a new edition of the 
Garden “Guide Book” was found unnecessary at this time, 
owing to the return to us of several hundred unused copies 
which had been supplied to the Hudson-Fulton Celebration 
Committee. The work on our local fora by Mr. Norman 
Taylor, referred to in our last report, is nearly completed 
and its publication is looked for during the early part of 
the coming year. Dr. Britton’s work on the flora of Ber- 
muda is also almost ready for publication. 
Arrangements have been completed for the publication 
of a sample number of our new periodical, with colored 
illustrations, provided for by the Addison Brown bequest. 
