i May 27 and made a 



The Horticultural Society of N< 



2W York held its summer 



exhibition 



in the museun 



1 buildinj 



y on June 5 and 6. 



The Hudson-Fulton Celebratic 



>n, in October, was par- 



ticipated i 



in by the Gard* 



en in sev( 



eral ways, as described in 



the August number of th< 



.Journa 



l. A special Guide Book 



was publis 



shed; the nativ 



e trees of the Hudson River Valley 



growing 



n the grounds 



were ma 



rked with a large "H"; 



and two lectures of the a 



utumn cc 



mrse were devoted to the 



subject. 



On October 2, 



2,400 sc 



hool children in costume 



held a his 



torical fete on 



the plazj 



t in front of the museum 



building. 











Personal Investigations 



In Jam 



lary, 1909, I returned t 



New York with about 



3,300 spec 



imens of fungi < 



rollected ; 



at fourteen selected locali- 



ties in Jar 



naica, with full field no1 



zes on fleshy species, and 



over two hundred colored illustrations of the more interesting 

 ones made by Mrs. Murrill. A full account of our explora- 

 tions appeared in the Journal for February, 1909. This 

 collection has been only partially worked over, but the 

 indications are that it contains over 100 undescribed species. 



Shortly after my return, the first number of Mycologia 

 was published, and this journal has demanded a consider- 

 able portion of my time during the year, not only in manag- 

 ing and editing it, but also in contributing technical articles 

 and reviews of current literature. 



My most important scientific work of the year has been 

 the completion of a monograph of the Boletaceae of North 

 America, which will appear in Volume 9, part 3, of "North 

 American Flora." A preliminary arrangement of most of 

 the North American species of this family was published 

 in Mycologia earlierin the year. The species of Chantere- 

 leae, the lowest tribe of the gill-fungi, were also mono- 

 graphed for Volume 9, part 3, of "North American Flora." 



The arrival of an important collection of polypores from 

 Japan for determination led me to make a study of the 



