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brought together. The value of the specimens received as 
gifts is estimated at $152.40. 
An aggregate of 7,815 duplicate specimens was sent to 
other institutions and to individuals as exchanges. 
Museums 
The several departments making up the public museums 
were developed mainly by the addition of specimens re- 
ceived through gifts, exchanges, and exploration. 
THe Economic Museum was increased by the addition 
of miscellaneous specimens and by the installation of a 
special case devoted to the crude fibers of the Philippine 
Islands. This case is on the south wall of the west hall 
of the museum. It contains forty-eight specially prepared 
specimens which were given to the Garden by Mr. Theodor 
Muller who made the collection while in residence in the 
Philippine Islands several years ago 
Tue Systematic Museum comprises the following col- 
lections: 
a. The Synoptic Collection, which was increased by the 
interpolation of miscellaneous specimens. The exhibits of 
some cases were rearranged. 
b. The Local Flora was increased by the addition of a 
few specimens and the relabeling of several of the specimens 
previously installed. 
c. The Microscope Exhibit remained the same as last 
year, except for the renovation of the objects exhibited 
under the microscopes. 
d. The Plant Picture Exhibit was not changed except in 
the case of several frames in which the photographs had 
become damaged or had deteriorated. 
Tue Fossiz Plant Museum was increased by the addi- 
tion of about seventy specimens representing plants of the 
Carboniferous, Tertiary, and Quaternary periods. 
The catalogue of type and figured specimens contained 
in the collection of fossil plants was finished together with 
a bibliography. For further details see Report of the 
Honorary Curator of Fossil Plants. 
