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at the entrances and elsewhere, and by personal request of 
our workmen, two of whom have been kept on guard on 
Sundays and holidays. Damage to the plants by the break- 
ing of limbs and picking of flowers has been reduced to an 
insignificant amount. In this attempt to enforce neatness and 
order we have had the codperation of the Park Police. 
The hay of the tract was cut in July and August by Geo. 
Hudson, of Bronxdale, on shares, and our share of it 
stacked; part of it was burned, probably by an incendiary ; 
the remainder has been sold for $60.00, and this amount de- 
posited with the Treasurer. 
Lectures. 
In codperation with the American Museum of Natural His- 
tory, a lecture was delivered in the large lecture hall of that 
institution on the evening of January 21, 1897, by Professor 
Henry H. Rusby, of the New York College of Pharmacy, on: 
‘¢ A Study of the Economic Features of the Lower Orinoco 
Region.” 
Library. 
As will be seen by the appendix to this report regarding 
accessions of material, and by reference to the document of 
last year, a considerable amount of library material has al- 
ready been obtained. This has been acknowledged as far as 
practicable and has been boxed, awaiting opportunity for 
properly cataloguing and binding it. Most of it is deposited 
at the Lorillard Mansion at Bronx Park. 
The material received in exchange for the BULLETIN can 
readily be very greatly increased by correspondence, and it 
would appear desirable that provision be made for a librarian, 
whose duty it shall be to properly corr late ane arrange these 
books and pamphlets, and sen gments for them. 
For the present year it is proposed to ie this done under 
the appropriation for Special Assistance. 
Museums and Herbarium. 
The accumulation of museum and herbarium material has 
gone forward steadily during the year, and the accessions 
