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work be carried on in those islands. Looking forward to 
this I have detailed Mr. J. A. Shafer, Museum Custodian, 
for a visit to northeastern Cuba, and he will leave the Garden 
for that work on January 13. This exploration work, as 
has been previously pointed out, not alone adds greatly to 
the value and completeness of the Garden’s collections of 
living plants and of museum and herbarium specimens, but 
also to botanical knowledge, and supplies plants and speci- 
mens greatly needed in the preparation of the monographs 
for ‘* North American Flora,” now in course of publication 
by the Garden. 
Investigations 
During such time as their curatorial and other adminis- 
trative work has permitted, members of the staff have carried 
on original studies in a great variety of subjects, and many 
of the results reached have been published. Investigations 
have also been carried on by students and by visiting officials 
of other institutions, the collections of the Garden affording 
excellent opportunities for such work. Much of the original 
study accomplished by thc curators has been. prosecuted 
outside of their regular hours of attendance. In the reports 
of the several officers hereto appended, accounts will be 
found of the various investigations undertaken during the 
year, and a record of the publications issued by the Garden 
during the year will be found in the report of the Assistant 
Director. These publications have been aided by the income 
of the David Lydig Fund bequeathed by the late Judge 
Charles P. Daly. 
Research Scholarships 
Continuing the policy of previous years, small grants have 
been made to deserving students to assist them in the prose- 
cution of investigations, $50 a month being so allotted during 
residence. Considerably larger sums than those appropriated 
for this purpose up to the present time, could be used to great 
advantage to botanical science. 
or the continuation of their studies on the North Ameri- 
can species of rusts (Uredinales), fungi, many of great de- 
