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*Umaceny, Liruie Anna. A.B., Normal College,o7. Research 
at Columbia Univ., o7-. Teacher in public schools, New 
York City, 0o7- 
Relation of the shape of cells to the shape of the organ. 
*tWitson, Guy West. M.S., Purdue Univ., 06. Special agent, 
U.S. Bureau of Plant Industry, 13-. 
Biologic species of Phytophora. Investigations of the chestnut 
CaNRET. 
Besides the above named, a number of investigators have 
utilized various facilities for research at the Garden. Men- 
tion of these has been made from time to time in the Notes, 
News and Comment column of the JourNAL. 
Respectfully submitted, 
STOUT, 
Director of the Laboratories. 
REPORT OF THE BIBLIOGRAPHER 
Dr. N. L. Brirron, Drrectror-1n-CHIEF. 
Sir: I have the honor to submit the following report for 
the year 1913. 
Upon the establishment of the position of Bibliographer 
in January, 1913, and my appointment to it, I was 
informed that my duties were: (1) to assist persons seeking 
botanical information to be found in books; (2) to make 
recommendations for the purchase of books; (3) to continue 
editorial and bibliographic work contingent upon the publi- 
cation of NorrH AMERICAN FLorA 
Scarcely a day has passed hee calls for assistance in 
the tracking of information believed to exist somewhere in 
the Garden library. A partial record indicates that prob- 
ably about a thousand such calls have been responded to 
during the year. The number, however, gives little idea 
of the amount of work involved, for in some cases the time 
consumed was less than five minutes, while occasionally a 
single problem would require an hour or more. Whatever 
time has been devoted to this service by the bibliographer, 
* Registered at Columbia. 
