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The fund is a sum of $3,000 donated by Caroline and Olivia 
Phelps Stokes, on condition that the income of it be always de- 
voted to the preservation of native plants. Much good has been 
accomplished in disseminating able essays paid for from the 
income of the fund, in giving wide currency to literature of like 
character, and by a course of equally able lectures in many cities, 
the expenses of which work were also paid for out.of the fund 
income. 
What more likely than that from the ranks of the merchant 
princes, the soldiers, sailors, and more humble toilers, or the few 
ulti-millionaires now developing among the pupils some will in 
time swell the fund for the preservation of native plants. 
This is certainly of most vital importance to the movement for 
in these days of strenuous endeavor all projects of importance 
must indeed be wafted toward the goal on golden - to attain 
any very marked success. G. GorDon Copp. 
THE SPECIAL FUND FOR SCIENTIFIC PURPOSES. 
Subscriptions to a fund of not less than $10,000, for obtaining 
living plants, museum and herbarium specimens, and books for 
the library were authorized by the Board of Managers on 
October 4, 1902. This sum has now been obtained by the fol- 
lowing contributions, and applied as indicated in the following 
tabulation : 
For THE PURCHASE OF SPECIMENS, CREDITED TO THE MusEUM 
AND HERBARIUM FuND 
Miss Mary Taber..... ........ $ 5.00 
Geo. Foster Peabody........... 100.00 
H. C. Von Post............-0. 200.00 
J. P. Crawford. ...... 0 eee 10.00 
James J. Higginson............ 100.00 
DelleWiite oars 25.00 
Ey EB Olebttiscaccces3eee cee 5.00 
