28 
to Wendland; he therefore proposed for the palms the name 
Neowashingtonia, by which they are now known (Bulletin U. S. 
Dept. Agric., Div. Forestry, 14: 1897 
In order to ascertain the exact botanical characters of the 
group, and whether there are really three species, or the described 
forms are forms of a single species, complete eng speci- 
mens accompanied by photographs are desidera The culti- 
vated plants seem to differ considerably in their ae and if the 
species are good, accompanying differences should be found in 
the flowers and fruit. 
N. L. Britton. 
THE ECONOMIC MUSEUM. 
The recent building of additional exhibition cases has made 
possible a considerable development of the Economic Museum 
of the first floor of the museum building. The amount of case- 
space added to that previously occupied by the economic collec- 
tions amounts to about one hundred per cent., and besides re- 
lieving the congested condition of the collections, the installation 
of this new furniture has given a much more balanced and fin- 
ished appearance to the museum halls; about three fifths of the 
available space for cases on this floor is now occupied. 
standard cases are now grouped in oe blocks of 
four or six units. In the main east and west halls the blocks are 
composed of six units, while in the wings they are composed of 
four. The floor plan on the aa page indicates the positions 
of the several blocks of case 
The specimens eee in the original equipment of cases 
have been spread out into the new cases and a large number of 
specimens hitherto necessarily stored in the basement have been 
interpolated and are being permanently arranged as rapidly as the 
labels can be printed. 
ing this ape rearrangement of the exhibits, there has 
ee no change from the general plan previously adopted for 
this museum a already described in the BuLterin of the 
Garden.* 
* Bull, N. Y. Bot. Gard. 2: 27 and 28. 
