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Madison Avenue for office and storage purposes, until the old 
College site was sold, and this was a great favor. Upon the 
sale of this property, it was deemed expedient to establish the 
office at Bedford Park; a house on Suburban Street, near 
Perry Avenue, was rented, and the transferal of fixings and 
specimens made late in November by means of our own teams 
and laborers. A considerable amount of rough carpentering 
was necessary at the new rooms, and this was done by one 
of the laborers. 
Lectures, 
Public lectures in codperation with the American Museum 
of Natural History were given in the lecture hall of that in- 
stitution as follows: 
Thursday Evening, March 24, 1898, ‘*‘ Hardy Flowering 
Shrubs and Perennials,” by Mr. Cornelius Van Brunt. : 
Thursday Evening, March 31, 1898, ‘* A Botanist’s Ram- 
bles in the Mountains of Oregon,” by Professor Francis E. 
Lloyd. 
They were well attended and evidently much appreciated. 
Library. 
The accessions to the Library during the year are scheduled 
in an appendix to this report. 
Part of the Library is shelved in the Bedford Park office ; 
that portion of it which was stored last year in the Lorillard 
Mansion is boxedup. A number of additional exchanges for 
the BULLETIN have been arranged. 
Museums and Herbarium. 
The specimens obtained for the Museums and Herbarium 
are tabulated in an appendix to this report. Much work has 
been done on preparing them for exhibition, but much re- 
mains to be done. A report by Dr. Rusby, Honorary Cu- 
rator of the Economic Collections, submitted to the Scientific 
Directors on December 19, 1898, accepted and ordered 
printed in the BULLETIN, outlines the important steps which 
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