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and submitted on Arbor Day, the successful student being 
awarded one of these frames for his or her school. Mrs. 
Britton conducted the correspondence connected with this 
distribution and also visited several schools and made 
addresses on the subject. It is proposed to utilize the 
income of the Caroline and Olivia E. Phelps Stokes Fund 
for the preservation of native plants, which has made 
this effort possible, for the reproduction of 3 additional 
wild flowers, which will increase the set to 12 subjects, 
8 having been used in frames hitherto distributed and 1 
reproduced set held in reserve. Selections of the essays 
submitted by the school children have been published.* 
A further record of this work will be found in the report 
of the Honorary Curator of Mosses hereto appended. 
Investigations 
Investigational work by members of the staff has been 
continued during such time as administrative and cura- 
torial duties have permitted, and records of this work will 
be found in the accompanying reports of the several 
officers. This work has included taxonomic studies in 
relation to the preparation of manuscript for North Amer- 
ican Flora and other publications, which closely interlocks 
with curatorial work; and investigations in plant breeding, 
which have been closely associated with the work of students. 
Some original work has also been accomplished in plant 
chemistry, plant pathology, and paleobotany. 
Colored Illustrations of Plants 
By means of the income of the Addison Brown Fund, 
referred to in my last annual report, the preparation of the 
first part to be published of the magazine established by 
that fund for the publication of colored plates of plants of 
the United States and of other plants flowering in the 
collections of the New York Botanical Garden is now com- 
plete, and it is proposed to issue this first part during the 
* See Jour. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 16: 113-116. 
