(13) 
Space for the additional books secured during the year was 
obtained by adding new shelves to the steel cases already con- 
structed, no additional cases having been required. The 
number of institutions now on our exchange list for publica- 
tions of the Garden is about 600, as against 57o recorded in 
my last annual report. The monetary value of the publi- 
cations which we annually receive in exchange is about $850. 
Laboratories 
The laboratories have been used by many students pursu- 
ing special investigations during the year, as detailed in the 
report of the Director of the Laboratories, hereto appended. 
No considerable changes have been made in the equipment, 
though some rearrangements of furniture and fixings have 
been found desirable. 
In my last annual report I recorded an inquiry made of a 
number of universities, gardens and museums, relative to pro- 
posed codperation in developing the tropical laboratory of the 
Garden at Cinchona, Jamaica, looking toward the possible 
establishment of a resident investigator at that station. It was 
proposed by representatives of some institutions that this be 
accomplished by the contribution of $100 a year by fifteen or 
twenty universities, museums or gardens. I have to report 
that this movement was not successful, only five institutions 
finding themselves able to join in the proposed work, although 
the movement was most cordially approved. The buildings 
at Cinchona were somewhat seriously damaged by the earth- 
quake which devastated the city of Kingston last January, 
but they have been put in complete repair by the Jamaica 
Government without expense to the Garden, and students may 
now be received there as formerly. There is no doubt that 
this station provides exceptional facilities for investigations of 
tropical and subtropical plants, and that important additions 
to knowledge would be made by the residence there of a 
trained investigator. 
