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was aided by contributions of money by members of the 
Board of Managers, as follows: 
Mr. Daniel Guggenheim. ................... 1+. $200 
Dr. Lewis Rutherfurd Morris ..................-. 100 
Mr. Francis Lynde Stetson. ........... 200 eee eee 100 
Mr. Henry W. de Forest... ............0 cee eee 50 
Mr. Louis C. Tiffany ..... 0... cece ee eee 50 
The contributions were credited to the Public Lecture 
Fund. 
Nature-study lectures and demonstrations to large 
numbers of children from public schools were continued, and 
special lectures were delivered to teachers. Three junior 
members of the staff have acted as docents, escorting parties 
of both adults and children to parts of the grounds, build- 
ings, and collections on week-day afternoons, throughout 
the year, whenever application has been made for such 
service. Labeling of all collections has been continued. 
The report of the Assistant Director hereto appended 
gives details of educational work and a complete record of 
publications. 
Exploration 
Owing to the necessity of using all available funds for 
supplementing the city allowance for maintenance, major 
botanical exploration has been essentially limited to ex- 
peditions made possible by special gifts. One of these was 
carried out by the Director-in-Chief, accompanied by Mrs. 
Britton and by Mr. Percy Wilson, in northern Cuba and 
the Isle of Pines;* two others were led by Dr. John K. 
Small, in southern Florida, under the continued liberal 
patronage of Mr. Charles Deering. The first of Dr. 
Small’s trips included a botanical examination of the Cape 
Sable regiont in the spring; the other, accomplished in the 
autumn, was given to a continuation of investigations on 
the flora of the mainland and the Florida Keys. The large 
* See Jour. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 17: 64-71. 
t See Jour. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 17: 189-202. 
