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special study of the genus Viola. The Director-in-Chief 
has also spent some time in Europe, in the study of critical 
species. 
The reception that continues to be accorded our publica- 
tions is gratifying to the Directors, both from a financial 
and a scientific viewpoint. Several of these publications 
in 1911 have been of exceptional value. 
Scientific data of considerable importance have been 
obtained by special students during the year, from the 
collections in our economic museum. 
The educational work of the year, in addition to that 
recorded by the Director of the Laboratories, has included 
the usual spring and fall lectures to school children and 
public lectures during the summer, as well as in the spring 
and autumn, as heretofore, the attendance at all of which 
has shown a satisfactory increase. Interest in the work 
of the docent in guiding visitors about the Garden, has 
greatly increased during the past year, so that it is thought 
desirable to assign a second officer to this duty. The 
installation of large photographs, representing important 
types of the world’s vegetation, upon the walls of the 
Museum, is regarded a work of great educational impor- 
tance. 
A plan has been inaugurated for continuing the work 
for the preservation of our wild flowers, through the 
publication in the Garden Journat of colored plates of 
those species regarded as being in greatest danger of 
destruction, with notes upon their life history and sugges- 
tions as to their protection. 
Mr. Norman Taylor, one of our energetic assistant 
curators, has been called by the Brooklyn Botanic Garden 
to become the assistant of Dr. Gager, the Director of that 
institution. 
Dr. Arthur Hollick has been absent during half of the 
year, by permission of the Board, to assist the United 
States Geological Survey in its study of Alaskan fossil 
plants. 
