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aay of Mr. D. O. Mills, President of the Garden, and 
Mr. R. S. Williams has been detailed for this work, to leave 
the eo during January for an absence of about four 
months. Jt is much desired that expeditions to eastern Cuba, 
Jamaica and Santo Domingo, be provided for during the year. 
Investigations 
The collections of living plants, and of museum and her- 
barium specimens, have afforded increased facilities for inves- 
tigations by students, visiting botanists, and members of the 
staff, and records of work accomplished will be found in the 
reports of the several officers hereto appended. The appro- 
priation available for resident research scholarships has been 
expended with advantage, and the annual expenditure of a 
larger sum than our present income affords would be most 
desirable. As in previous years, the curators have been able 
to carry on some original investigation, largely, however, 
during time outside of their regular hours of attendance, the 
care, study and naming of the constantly increasing collec- 
tions requiring most of their required time. Visits have been 
made by various members of the staff to other museums and 
herbaria in the United States in order that we should be kept 
informed of progress at these institutions, and for the deter- 
mination of questions for which our own collections and 
library were insufficient. An account of publications issued 
by the Garden during the year will be found in the report 
of the First Assistant, hereto appended. These publications 
have been made possible largely by the aid of the David 
Lydig Fund, bequeathed by the late Judge Charles P. Daly- 
Research Scholarships 
Professor J. C. Arthur, of Purdue University, and his assis- 
tant, Mr. Frank D. Kern, were awarded scholarships for one 
month each, in January, to aid them in their investigations of 
the North American species of rusts (Uredinales), a group of 
parasitic fungi of immense importance in agriculture and hor- 
ticulture. Their first contribution to the ‘‘ North American 
