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expense of visiting other institutions enabled me to study 
botanical gardens and museums in Europe in the course of 
my trip to Vienna in July as a delegate to the Second Inter- 
national Congress of Botany, and other members of the staff 
have visited a number of American institutions for special 
purposes. 
Research Scholarships 
Mr. C. B. Robinson, a graduate student of Columbia Uni- 
versity, was granted a research scholarship for five months 
to aid in the continuation of his studies on the stone-worts 
(Characeae) commenced last year; it is hoped that he will be 
able to complete this monograph during the spring of 1906. 
Professor R. H. Pond, of Northwestern University, held a 
scholarship for two months while engaged in a physiological 
investigation of monocotyledonous plants under the direction 
of Dr. gegen 
Dr. E. J. Durand, Instructor in Botany in Cornell Uni- 
versity, was awarded a scholarship for the month of Septem- 
ber for the purpose of studying the important collection of 
fungi of the class Pyrenomycetes, purchased by me from 
Mr. George Massee of the Royal Gardens at Kew, England, 
together with our previous collections of these plants, and his 
studies have increased the reference value of these collections. 
Mr. L. R. Abrams held a scholarship for two months while 
completing the study of the large and important collection 
made by him during the past three years on behalf of the 
Garden in southern California, and at the same time rendered 
valuable aid in determining specimens of previous collectors in 
that region. At the expiration of his scholarship he was ap- 
pointed an Assistant Curator in the botanical department of 
the National Museum at Washington. 
Mr. W. R. Maxon, an Assistant Curator of the National 
Museum, spent the month of November with Professor Un- 
derwood in their codperative study of the ferns of tropical 
America, in the course of which the value of the fern col- 
lection was much increased. 
