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and other characters of various crude or refined plant- 
products were installed, and many more plates of a similar 
character are ready to be put in the cases as soon as labels 
are printed. 
Tue Systematic Museum, which formerly embraced 
three distinct elements, was increased by one more. A 
Pianr Puorocrary Exuisit was installed. At present, 
it consists of 214 photographs 11 X 14 inches in size. 
They are contained in fifty large oak frames, some of 
which are divided by cross-bars into four compartments, 
others intosix. The photographs illustrate plant-societies, 
habits, and structure of the flowerless and the flowering 
plants. The frames containing these groups of photo- 
graphs occupy the piers between the casing of the large 
windows, and although the present arrangement is tenta- 
tive, it has been made, like the other elements of the sys- 
tematic museum, as far as possible, to bring related plant 
groups into proximity. About 150 more photographs have 
been made and furnished with printed labels so that they 
may be added to this exhibit as soon as more frames are 
available. 
THE Synoptic CoLLECTION was increased by the addition 
of miscellaneous specimens which were obtained chiefly 
through the system of exploration the Garden is main- 
taining in tropical America. 
HE Locar Fiora was increased by a few odd additions, 
and the fern collection was made complete by the installa- 
tion of the desiderata. 
THe Microscope Exurpir remained the same as in the 
previous year except for some renovation and the im- 
provement of several of the specimens. 
Herbaria 
The additions to the herbarium represent plants from 
nearly all parts of the globe, from the Arctic regions, the 
north and south temperate regions and from the tropics. 
The greatest increases were naturally from the geographical 
