were particularly fitted. 



Only the interest on the fund is, however, to be used, the 

 principal accumulating through the fees of successive students. 

 The fund was thus established by the Board of Managers, on 

 previous recommendation of the Scientific Directors. It now 

 amounts to a little more than $2,500, and interest upon it has 

 accumulated to about $300. 



The Board of Managers made an appropriation from this in- 

 come at their annual meeting in January, 1905, which has en- 

 abled the Scientific Directors to make their first grant from this 

 fund for the purpose of aiding an original investigation. 



The recipient of this first grant is Mr. C. B. Robinson, a stu- 

 dent of the Garden, who is preparing a monograph on the North 

 American stoneworts (Characeae). Mr. Robinson is a graduate 

 of Dalhousie College, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Subsequently to his 

 graduation, he studied at Cambridge University, England, and is 

 at present a graduate student of Columbia University and a can- 

 didate for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy from that institu- 

 tion. The subject chosen by him for investigation at the Garden 

 was made available by the unsurpassed collection of these inter- 

 esting plants, which are inhabitants of shallow water, formed by 

 the late Dr. Timothy F. Allen, of New York, and presented by 

 him to the Garden in 1901, a description of which is published 

 in Journal 2 : 53-54. 1901. N. L. Britton, 



DR. MACDOUGAL'S NEW WORK. 

 The following letter is self explanatory : 



Carnegie Institution of Washington, 



Washington, D. C, 

 Dr. N. L. Britton, December 15, 1905. 



Director-in- Chief, 



New York Botanical Garden. 

 Dear Sir: The work of the Desert Botanical Laboratory, with 

 which I have been connected as an adviser since its foundation, 

 and the other botanical investigations under the auspices of the 



