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tion, prepared by Mr. George V. Nash, Head Gardener, 
was published in the JouRNAL for March. 
At the request of the Scientific Directors, a complete guide- 
book to the grounds, buildings and collections has been pre- 
pared and published with photographic illustrations and a 
plan of the grounds, in our BULLETIN no. 16, issued Decem- 
ber 18. A special edition of this BuLLeTIn re-paged, 
provided with an index, and bound in stiff covers, will be 
issued within a few weeks and placed on sale at twenty-five 
cents per copy. 
Exploration 
The increase of the collections of living plants and of mu- 
seum and herbarium specimens has been largely accomplished 
through the field work of members of the staff detailed for 
that purpose, or by special agents, and the superiority of this 
method over any other, of obtaining the most desirable ma- 
terial, has been still more fully demonstrated. Detailed re- 
ports on most of this work have already been published in the 
JOURNAL. 
The continuation of the exploration of the Bahama Islands, 
which was in progress by Mr. L. J. K. Brace, special agent, 
on Fortune Island, Long Cay, and Crooked Island, was com- 
pleted in January. Ispent the month of March in the ex- 
ploration of Porto Rico, with the assistance of Mrs. Britton, 
Miss Delia W. Marble, Dr. Marshall A. Howe, of our cura- 
torial staff, and with the coéperation of Mr. John F. Cowell, 
Director of the Buffalo Botanic Garden, and of Professor W. 
M. Wheeler, curator in the American Museum of Natural 
History. Collections of fossil plants of the Atlantic coastal 
plain from New Jersey to Martha’s Vineyard were made 
during the month of June by Dr. Arthur Hollick, curator, in 
codperation with Professor Edward C. Jeffrey, of Harvard 
University. Mr. Wm. R. Maxon, of the United States Na- 
tional Museum, spent the months of April and May as a 
special agent of the Garden in Costa Rica. Andros Island, 
the largest of the Bahamas, was explored during parts of 
July and August by Mr. L. J. K. Brace, special agent. I 
