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and greenhouses. The library has been used to advantage 
by many visiting students and investigators. A great 
amount of information was given out by correspondence 
and this function of the institution is continually expanding 
and requiring more of the time of the staff. Botanical 
explorations resulting in important additions to the col- 
lections and to knowledge were carried out in northern Cuba 
and the Isle of Pines, and in southern Florida. Public 
exhibitions of plants and flowers have been continued in 
cooperation with the Horticultural Society of New York. 
Publications of the Garden during 1916 include Volume 
17 of the Journal, Nos. 33 and 34 of the Bulletin, Volume 8 
of Mycologia, 5 parts of North American Flora, Volume 6 of 
the Memoirs, 7 numbers of Contributions, and the first 
volume of the new journal Addisonia. 
Additions to permanent funds include $5,000 bequeathed 
by Emil C. Bondy, added to the principal of the Endow- 
ment Fund for Science and Education; the payment of 35 
per cent. of the bequest of $25,000 by Maria DeWitt Jesup, 
or $8,750 (10 per cent. only of this bequest remains unpaid), 
added to the principal of the Maria DeWitt Jesup Fund; 
and students’ fees aggregating $261, added to the principal 
of the Students Research Fund. These payments total 
$14,011, increasing the whole endowment to $554,009.16. 
Much larger endowment is needed to enable us to take full 
advantage of the opportunity for usefulness offered by the 
development of the institution. 
Roads and Paths 
Work on the driveway commenced last year at the rose 
garden site has been continued. About 200 feet of Telford 
foundation was laid and about 400 feet more has been 
graded. Earth for the large embankment required, where 
this road crosses the valley of the long lake, has been 
dumped in place in large amounts by contractors without 
cost to the Garden or to the city, and only about 2,000 
cubic yards more filling is now required at this point; after 
