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eral reviews. With your consent, I have acted as collaborator 
for plant physiology for the journal ‘* Chemical Abstracts ” 
since October. 
With your permission, also, I have accepted an appoint- 
ment on the staff of lecturers in the New York City Board of 
Education Course of Public Lectures. There are only one 
or two other lecturers in this course offering lectures on purely 
botanical subjects, with the exception of the subject of forestry. 
The popular presentation of botanical knowledge ought to 
increase public interest in that science and help toward a 
realization of its value, and thus further the rapidly growing 
appreciation of the Garden on the part of the public. 
The buildings of the Tropical Laboratory of the Garden, 
at Cinchona, Jamaica, which were partially destroyed by the 
disastrous earthquake of the fourteenth of last January, have 
been repaired, but no investigators have been sent there since 
the earthquake. 
A total of 31 persons have had the privileges of the labora- 
tories, herbaria, and other collections during the year ending 
December 31, 1907, as follows: 
Investigators registered before January 1, 1907......... 7 
Registrations at the Garden since January 1, 1907 .... 15 
Total registrations. 22 
Deduct for names counted twice 7 
Number of persons registered 15 
Additional persons to whom the privileges of the lab- 
oratories and collections have been granted........... I 
Total number of investigators present during 1907...... 31 
I append a list of these persons, together with a portion of 
their academic record, and the problems upon which they 
were engaged. 
* ANDERSON, Mary PERLE. Mt. Holyoke, B.S. 1890; Mass. Inst. 
Technology, 97-98. Univ. Chicago, 01-03; Supervisor Nat. 
Stud., Univ. School for Girls, Chicago, O1-03. Supervisor 
Nat. Study, Teach. Coll. Columbia Univ., o7-. 
Geographical distribution of the ferns of Japan. 
* Registered also in Columbia University. 
