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I. Economic Mustum. The exhibits of this museum 
were increased by large collections of plant constituents, 
native North American foods and drug-plants, and by mis- 
cellaneous specimens. Portions of many of the exhibits were 
rearranged so as to show the specimens to better advantage. 
II. Systematic Museum. The exhibits comprising the 
several elements of this museum were increased by both 
special collections and miscellaneous specimens. 
(2) The Synoptic Collection was augmented by the addi- 
tion of a large series of seaweeds and fungi, and by the in- 
terpolation of miscellaneous specimens in the other plant- 
groups. 
(6) The Microscope Exhrbit was maintained as heretofore, 
and has lately received a thorough overhauling, at which time 
worn parts of the instruments were replaced by new ones. 
(c) The Local Flora has oe developed by the installa- 
tion of the red algae (Rhod ae), the brown algae 
(Phaeophyceae) and the coneua (Charales). Many col- 
ored plates to illustrate the fleshy fungi of the local flora have 
been received and will be put in the swinging frames at an 
early date. 
III]. Fossiz Pranr Museum. Additions to this museum 
came from both the eastern and western part of North 
America. They consist of valuable specimens from the 
Dakota group, the Devonian, the Triassic and the Lower 
Cretaceous, and of Cretaceous plant-remains in great va- 
riety from New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts, so 
that now the collection contains specimens of all the Creta- 
ceous plants thus far found on Long Island and Block Island 
and most of those known to occur on Staten Island and 
Martha’s Vineyard. More valuable type-specimens from 
older portions of this collection have been brought to light, 
labeled, and properly arranged. 
Herbarium 
I. MounTIne AND CONSERVING oF SPECIMENS. A total 
of about 47,000 herbarium specimens selected from those 
