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this lease, with the hope, however, that the station may be 
continued as a point where investigations may be prosecuted 
under other auspices. 
Public Instruction 
Saturday afternoon public lectures were delivered from 
April 27 consecutively until December 14. Thirty-four lec- 
tures were given and an average attendance of 100 was main- 
tained to the end of the course, which was carried six weeks 
later into the year than in previous seasons. Lectures and 
demonstrations to public school children, supplementary to 
their nature-study curriculum, were given in the autumn. 
Docentry work has been continued throughout the year, 
the plan of providing a docent at three o’clock every week 
day afternoon to accompany visitors through parts of the 
grounds and buildings proving entirely satisfactory. Mem- 
bers of the staff acting as docents have also accompanied 
many parties of visitors, both children and adults, at other 
times, and this system of personal guidance is of high edu- 
cational value. More complete labeling of all collections, 
which is being gradually attained, makes these of increasing 
importance educationally. 
Floral Exhibitions 
Cooperation with the Horticultural Society of New York 
in providing monthly public exhibitions of plants and 
flowers was continued during the summer, the exhibitions 
being opened to the public on Saturday afternoons and 
continued during the following Sundays. In some of these 
exhibitions the whole basement floor of the museum has 
been filled with flowers; at others only one of the halls was 
used. 
Exploration 
Botanical exploration and collecting in Cuba was con- 
tinued in the early part of the year by Dr. J. A. Shafer, 
Special Agent, and, accompanied by Mr. John F. Cowell, 
Director of the Buffalo Botanic Garden, and by Mrs. 
