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institutions. Records of the work accomplished by the staff 
of the Garden will be found in the reports of the several offi- 
cers hereto appended. The ordinary curatorial and admin- 
istrative duties of the staff occupy most of their regular time, 
and large portions of their researches have been accom- 
plished outside of the required hours of attendance. The 
record of student work will be found in the report of the 
Director of the Laboratories. The curatorial work often re- 
quires the expenditure of much time in determining the proper 
name and relationship of plants and specimens, and inciden- 
tally brings out a great many facts additional to knowledge, 
so that it is very closely interlocked with original investiga- 
tion, a condition which is sought for in the organization of 
all modern educational institutions. 
By means of our appropriation for investigations at other 
institutions, Dr. William A. Murrill, First Assistant, was 
enabled to study the collections of many gardens, museums, 
and herbaria in western Europe, during the summer, and he 
has published an account of his work in the October issue of 
the JouRNAL. He obtained a large amount of information 
which is important for use at the present stage of develop- 
ment of the Garden, secured a large number of specimens by 
arranging additional exchanges, and secured data which will 
enable him to complete his monograph of the North American 
polypores, to be published in a forthcoming part of Norru 
AMERICAN FLORA. 
Research Scholarships 
Professor J. C. Arthur, of Purdue University, and his assist- 
ant Mr. Frank D. Kern, were awarded scholarships for one 
month each in January, to aid them in their investigation of 
the North American species of rusts, many of which are 
destructive to living plants and a menace to agriculture and 
horticulture; these microscopic and parasitic fungi have two 
or three stages in their life history, during one stage living on 
one species of plant while the other stages are mostly passed 
on another plant. Their work is embodied in the monograph 
of the North American rusts (Uredinales) now in press in 
