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requested to establish the position of Associate Curator for 
such members of the staff as may be considered capable of 
ultimately assuming the duty of curatorships. 
he recommendations contained in these resolutions were 
favorably considered by the Board of Managers at their 
next meeting, and provision was made for substantial in- 
creases in the salaries of the members of the staff, and for 
additional museum assistance. 
Although conditions are such that the full benefit of these 
new provisions cannot be at once realized, yet the action 
here reported must be regarded as of vital importance to 
the scientific success and progress of the Garden. The 
permanent retention in the staff of men whose scientific 
work is of a more or less continuous character is requisite 
to the integrity of the results, as well as to economy in the 
expenditure of time, and the new arrangements are highly 
conducive to such permanency. 
We are happy to record also that Mrs. Elizabeth G. 
Britton was appointed by the Board of Managers as Honor- 
ary Curator of the Moss Collections, at its meeting of 
May 23. 
Another important change affecting the staff members 
is the printing after their titles in the Garden publications 
of designations of the field of botany in which their major 
activities respectively lie. 
The scientific work of the Garden for the year has been 
both extensive and important, as may be seen by reference 
to the reports of the Curator, the Librarian and the Director 
of the Laboratories. 
The completion of the new museum cases opens the way 
for extensive additions to our exhibits during 1913. 
he explorations of the year have included an expedition 
by the Director-in-Chief, accompanied by Mrs. Britton and 
Mr. Wilson, to the West Indies, with the special object of 
completing our information concerning the cactaceous flora 
of that region; one by the Director-in-Chief for the study of 
the autumnal flora of Bermuda; one by Dr. Small to Florida, 
