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nursery, and it is expected that the others required may be 
obtained from the same source. This demonstration of 
forest planting is educationally valuable; the ridge which 
it occupies was scarcely available for anything but tree 
planting. 
Another ridge parallel to the white pine ridge to the west, 
along the Southern Boulevard, may well be given to the 
establishment of a forest of another kind of tree, and it is 
proposed to study this possibility and determine the most 
desirable tree to be used there. 
Additional data concerning plants and planting will be 
found in the report of the Head Gardener hereto appended. 
Museums and Herbarium 
Additions to the museum and herbarium collections have 
been made by exchanges with other institutions, by ex- 
ploration and collecting, by purchases made possible by 
the income of the Maria DeWitt Jesup Fund, and by gifts. 
Details of accessions and of curatorial work will be found 
in the report of the Head Curator and of the Honorary 
Curators hereto appended. ‘The curatorial staff remains 
unchanged. I have formerly and elsewhere alluded to the 
desirability of obtaining additional museum and herbarium 
cases, the collections having outgrown their present ac- 
commodation, and many valuable specimens are neces- 
sarily retained in storage which should be incorporated or 
displayed. 
Library 
It is pointed out in the report of the Bibliographer hereto 
appended that it is desirable that additional funds be made 
available for the purchase of books. During the past 
several years of rapid development of the grounds, very 
little money has been expended for this purpose, and the 
reference value of the collection is thus subject to deteri- 
oration. It is proposed to expend the greater part of the 
income of the Maria DeWitt Jesup Fund this year for the 
increase of the library, but this is not sufficient to meet the 
