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work several thousand specimens and many books were ob- 
tained for the collections, and exchange arrangements were 
perfected with several institutions. 
Dr. John K. Small, curator of the museums and _her- 
barium, spent some time studying the collections at Harvard 
University, at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadel- 
phia, and at the National Museum at Washington, D. C. 
Research Scholarships. 
The action of the Board of Managers in the establishment 
of Resident Research Scholarships at the last annual meet~ 
ing appears to be amply justified by the results. Research 
scholarships have been granted to five persons for an aggre- 
gate period of fourteen months. 
Dr. Theodor Holm, of Washington, D. C., held a schol- 
arship one month and made a critical study of the Ranun- 
culaceae of North America and revised the labels of the col- 
lection of specimens of this family in the herbarium. Dr. 
Holm also determined the collection of Rocky Mountain 
sedges in the herbarium, as an aid to Dr. Rydberg in the 
preparation of his manual of Rocky Mountain botany. 
Dr. B. E. Livingston, assistant in physiology in Chicago 
University, held a scholarship for four months within which 
period he completed an investigation of the chemical physi- 
ology of the cell, and obtained important results as to the 
toxic, physiologic and morphologic effects of a large number 
of mineral salts when used in minute and common concentra- 
tions in nutritive media. 
Miss W. J. Robinson, instructor in botany at Vassar Col- 
lege, held a scholarship six months and completed certain 
morphological studies on orchids, on the Fouquieriaceae, and 
on the formation of tubers in general. A critical study of 
the fungus genus Cordyceps was made, and some work was 
begun in chemical physiology which will be continued at 
Vassar. 
Mr. C. L. Shear, pathologist of the Bureau of Plant In- 
dustry, Washington, D. C., held a scholarship one month, 
