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viously received from other sources, including a nearly complete 
set of published exsiccata, that is dried specimens arranged in 
series and identified by numbers and suitable labels 
Sir William Dyer remarks, ‘‘ These duplicate exsiccata, which 
I believe are very complete, have been withdrawn and I do not 
think that I can do better than present them to your herbarium 
to which I have now given instruction that they shall be de- 
spatched. You will also receive from us a copy of Rees’s Cyclo- 
paedia which we purchased at a very cheap rate and which you 
will no doubt be glad to add to your library.” 
Work on roads, paths and grading has been actively continued 
during the autumn, and much progress has been made. It was 
hoped at the time the additional appropriation for construction 
made by the city become available for expenditure in August, 
that the main driveway from the Bronx Park Station of the New 
York Central and Hudson River Railroad to the Newell Avenue 
entrance at the Williamsbridge end of the Garden, could be com- 
pleted and thrown open for use, but it has proved impossible to 
finish this work properly, and its final completion will have to 
be deferred until early spring. The paths around the tanks for 
aquatic plants in the court of the conservatories, and all the 
grading and sodding necessary there, have been ona as well 
as paths ea about half a mile in length east of the Herb- 
aceous Gar and east of the Museum Building, and a telford 
foundation . an approximately additional length has been laid 
on the fruticetum plain, and to connect the bridges crossing the 
railway at Moshulu Parkway and Woodlawn Road, including a 
large amount of grading and sodding. Grading operations have 
also been continued at the rear of the museum building, the sur- 
plus dirt and rock taken from there being used as filling for 
roads and paths and for telford foundation. 
It having been found desirable and economical to have more 
horses available for use on the grounds, two additional stalls 
have recently been built at the stable, by an inexpensive modifica- 
tion of the sheds at that building, and a paddock for the horses 
which has long been needed, is being obtained by the building 
