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tained by him. The facts in connection with the amber were 
embodied in a paper which was read before the Botanical 
Society of America at the Philadelphia meeting in December. 
The fossil leaves are being subjected to careful Bay and 
will form the basis of a forthcoming paper. 
Dr. Howe, Assistant Curator, has cared for the collection of 
algae and that of the hepatics. He spent about five weeks 
in March and April in collecting and studying marine algae 
in Florida and the Bahamas, while the months of June, 
July, August and September were devoted to visiting Euro- 
pean botanical institutions for the purpose of seeing and 
studying the historical types of American algae. Besides 
the reports on the above mentioned trips, Dr. Howe’s publi- 
cations during the year include an account of ‘* The Mu- 
seum Exhibit of Seaweeds” and of ‘*‘ The Pike Collection of 
Algae,” printed in the Garden Journal for March and April, 
respectively ; ‘‘ Notes on Bahaman Algae,” collected by 
Professor W. C. Coker, printed in the Bulletin of the 
Torrey Botanical Club for February; and a few briefer notes 
and reviews, published in Torreya, of which he is the editor. 
His research work has consisted chiefly of systematic studies 
of the American marine algae, particularly of his own col- 
lections in the West Indian region. 
During the early part of the year Mr. Earle, Assistant 
Curator, had charge of the collection of fungi and allied 
groups of plants. In addition to his duties in arranging and 
caring for the fungus collections in the herbarium and mu- 
seum, much time was devoted to determining the types of the 
older genera of fungi and to continuing his work on the 
Agaricaceae of North America. Mr. Earle published a 
paper in Science on ‘‘ The Necessity of Reform in the No- 
menclature of the Fungi,” and ‘‘ Mycological Studies II,” 
including descriptions of a number of new species of tropical 
American and West American fungi, was printed in the BuL- 
LETIN of the Garden. He resigned his position at the Garden 
in June to take up his new work as Director of the Agri- 
cultural Experiment Station in Cuba. 
