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ment of this collection. This addition will enable us to ex- 
hibit the whole local flora, of which the lichens, hepatics, 
mosses, ferns and fern-allies, and flowering plants are now 
almost completely installed. Lack of time and assistance 
prevented the installation of the more lowly organized groups, 
but the cardboards for these plants are ready and many of 
the specimens have been selected and put aside for mounting. 
(c) Microscope exhibit. Less change was necessary in 
the case of this display than in any other department, the 
results of the complete renovation to which it was subjected 
last year having proved satisfactory. This display continues 
to be very popular; the objects exhibited are changed from 
time to time. 
5. Fossiz Prant Museum. The addition of two new 
table-cases has resulted in a redistribution of the specimens 
in all the cases. Two cases are now devoted to Paleozoic 
plants; one to Jura-Trias; two to Cretaceous and one to 
Tertiary plants. This condition has resulted in a better ex- 
hibition of the Carboniferous flora than was previously pos- 
sible and has provided room for the display of the excep- 
tionally fine collection of Dakota group leaves obtained by 
the Garden last year. Specimens for display were selected 
and provided with blocks. 
The contents of the wall-cases have been subjected to a 
slight rearrangement, in order to display the specimens to 
better advantage. 
Critical examination of the collections has been continued 
and the work of identifying and marking type-specimens 
has been systematically carried on. The principal work of 
this character during the past year has been in connection 
with the collection illustrating the flora of the Amboy clays, 
which contains the types of Professor Newberry’s monograph 
on the subject. 
An important addition to the Museum is the collection of 
fossil plants of the Matawan formation, containing speci- 
mens of all the types of the species published in a paper on 
the flora of that formation recently printed in the BULLETIN 
of the Garden. 
