(12) 
has already been mentioned, and there is no practicable limit 
to the aid to be secured by the continuation and expansion of 
this method of obtaining material. It has been made possi- 
ble during the year by appropriations from the general fund 
of the Garden and also by gifts of money from the following 
persons credited to our exploration fund: 
J. Pierpont Morgan $ 500.00 
James B. Ford 250.00 
Vee Speyer 250.00 
. W. Perkins 200.00 
G. ‘S Bowdoin 200.00 
Samuel Thorne 100.00 
Lowell M. Paimer 100.00 
Isaac N. Seligman 100.00 
Charles Lanier . ......ccccce cece eceeee ce eeec een eens 100.00 
Louis C. Tiffany 100.00 
Robert W. de Forest........ 100.00 
N. L. Britton 100.00 
W. Bayard Cutting 100.00 
Henry Graves 50.00 
Samuel N. Hoyt............ 50.00 
Samuel Sloan 3 50.00 
sede AP ATSONS fic sadeascasoceunterwasesionss - vaseewents 50.00 
Edgar L. Marston .. 50.00 
Addison Brown 50.00 
James A. Scrymser 50.00 
Fie Wide Forest. 2.250 ce one eieee aes 25.00 
$2,575.00 
Reports of the several expeditions sent out during the year 
have already been printed in the JournaL. They include 
the continuation of collecting in the Philippine Islands by 
Mr. R illiams, special agent, who returned to the 
Garden in November; the continuation of the exploration of 
the Bahamian Islands, carried on by Dr. Marshall A. Howe, 
Assistant Curator, Dr. C. F. Millspaugh of the Field Co- 
lumbian Museum of Chicago, Mrs. Britton and myself dur- 
ing parts of January, February and March; the work of 
Mr. John F. Cowell, Director of the Buffalo Botanic Garden, 
