(192 ) 
Jacob Mahler...... 10.00 
Mrs. N. E. Baylies 10.00 
Edward G. Burgess 10.00 
Mrs. Wm. Combe 10.00 
Mrs. John A. Morris.... 5.00 
$1,405.00 
When the additional furniture was built, in the spring, it 
was determined to distribute the herbarium into three rooms 
of the upper floor of the building, instead of keeping it all in 
the large room in the east wing, which it was rapidly out- 
growing. Herbarium cases for the algw were therefore 
placed in the room just west of the library, and others for 
the fungi, ferns and fern-allies, in the morphological labora- 
tory between the library and main herbarium room, while 
the mosses were placed in cases in a small room between the 
morphological laboratory and the main herbarium room. 
Eight cases for holding collections of specimens under study 
were placed in the room just east of the library. The re- 
sult of this rearrangement and expansion has been to restrict 
the main herbarium room at the east end of the floor to the 
collections of flowering plants. 
Up to this autumn the work of the curators in caring for 
the collections has been assisted only by museum aids. As 
the collections have increased the need of a more responsible 
person to take charge of the physical condition of the collec- 
tions and of the building itself, has been demonstrated, and 
this was met in November, under the authority of the Scien- 
tific Directors, by the appointment of Mr. J. A. Shafer, for 
some years custodian of the botanical collections in the Car- 
negie museum at Pittsburgh, Pa., as custodian of the mu- 
seums of the Garden, his salary being arranged for by reduc- 
ing the number of museum aids previously employed. 
Laboratories. 
The report of the Director of the Laboratories hereto ap- 
pended shows that 46 students, including graduates of 40 
different colleges and universities have been granted the 
