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of this part of our work will be found in the reports of the 
Curator of the Museums and of the Honorary Curator of the 
Economic Collections, herewith submitted. 
Laboratories. 
A large portion of the furniture necessary for the labora- 
tory rooms is provided under the contract for construction 
‘and equipment of the Museum Building. Special cases may 
be added as required. Under an appropriation made by the 
Board of Managers, the obtaining of the instrumental equip- 
ment was begun in October, and sufficient has been secured 
to enable us to use some of the rooms for research purposes 
during the past two weeks. As stated in the report of the 
Director of the Laboratories, herewith submitted, twenty ad- 
vanced students have already been given the advantages of 
the laboratories, library and collections of the Garden. 
Lectures. 
In coéperation with the American Museum of Natural His- 
tory, two lectures were delivered in the lecture hall of that 
institution as follows: 
April 13th, Professor L. M. Underwood, ‘* The Royal Bo- 
tanical Gardens at Kew, England.” 
April 6th, Professor H. H. Rusby, ‘*The Production of 
Quinine.” 
Publications. 
Buvxietin No. 4 was issued April 15, 1899. Four tech- 
nical papers by members of the staff, published in the Bulle- 
tin of the Torrey Botanical Club have been reprinted for 
exchange purposes under the title «‘ Contributions from the 
New York Botanical Garden.” The printing of Vol. x of 
the Memoirs, containing Dr. P. A. Rydberg’s ‘*Annotated 
Catalogue of the Flora of Montana and the Yellowstone Na- 
tional Park,” based on the collections made by Dr. Rydberg 
in 1897, by means of funds provided by Mr. Wm. E. Dodge, 
and authorized in 1898, is nearly completed, and this fine 
volume will be issued within a few weeks. The Board of 
