( 203 ) 
tion on Long Island, No. III,’ was issued in November. 
He also delivered a lecture in the Garden lecture course, 
and edited No. 28 of the Garden BuLLETIN. 
Mr. Percy Wilson, Assistant Curator, devoted con- 
siderable time to the study and distribution of West Indian 
plants received from various institutions for determination, 
and also to large collections brought in by exploring expedi- 
tions sent out by the Garden. He had charge of all public 
gee the photographic work, the lantern slide collection, 
the Garden publications on sale, and was occupied wit 
oy duties four or five aietnoons each week, 
Dr. C. B. Robinson, Assistant Curator from January to 
September, devoted his attention to the study of large 
collections of Philippine plants and to the incorporation of 
the specimens in the herbarium, and prepared a monograph 
of a large part of the family Vacciniaceae for a contemplated 
part of Norra American Fiora. He resigned in Sep- 
tember in order to accept a position in the Bureau of Science, 
at Manila, Philippine Islands. 
Mrs. N. L. Britton, Voluntary Assistant for the first 
third of the year and Honorary Curator of Mosses for the 
remainder of the year, continued to devote her time and 
energy to the development of the moss collections. From 
the inception of the Garden Mrs. Britton devoted most of 
her time and much energy to increasing and arranging the 
moss herbarium. In recognition of these valuable services, 
the Board of Managers, on May 23, appointed Mrs. Britton 
‘Honorary Curator of Mosses.” During this year she 
accomplished the mounting and distribution of the current 
accessions, the large collections of the Mitten herbarium 
purchased several years ago, and distributed many dupli- 
cates to both home and foreign institutions and mono- 
graphers, and by special effort succeeded in making our 
representations of large and intricate genera, such as Sphag- 
num, Dicranum, Fissidens, Bryum, and Polytrichum, especi- 
ally those groups needed for monographic work on NortH 
American Ftora, essentially complete. Mrs. Britton, 
