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larged by specimens from various parts of the world. The 
methods of conservation used in past years were continued. 
Accessions. Detailed accession lists of the museum 
and herbarium specimens received during the year were 
published from month to month in the Garden Journal. 
Although many important specimens came from the Old 
World, the great bulk of the material received came from 
continental and insular America. The appended table 
indicates the amount of material brought together: 
By gift and purchase.................-..... 7,568 
By exchange. .... 2.0... cece eects 13,341 
By exploration.............. 00.0.0 e eee eee 15,368 
Total number of specimens.............. 36,277 
The value of the gifts is estimated at $39.20. Fully 
4,000 duplicate specimens were sent to other institutions 
and to individuals in exchange for other specimens. 
Museums 
The museum equipment was not augmented. Many 
exhibits of the several divisions of the museums were 
enlarged by the addition of new specimens. 
Fossiz Prant Museum. Specimens from Canada and 
the northeastern United States were added to this collec- 
tion, and investigations on several lines of work previ- 
ously inaugurated were continued. In order to make 
the public exhibits of fossil plants more intelligible to the 
visiting public, illustrations of restorations of carboniferous: 
plants and landscapes were installed with the specimens. 
The complete labeling of the collections was accomplished 
during the year. 
Economic Museum. Many parts of this collection were 
augmented by the interpolation of new specimens. € 
shifting of several exhibits was necessitated both by unequal 
growth of exhibits and congestion. The exhibits were 
arranged in as permanent positions as possible, in contem- 
plation of the new edition of the Guide Book. ‘This collec- 
tion was entirely renovated and all seriously deteriorated 
