JOURNAL 
OF 
The New York Botanical Garden 
Vo. I. December, 1900. No. 12. 
REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR-IN-CHIEF ON RE- 
SULTS OF HIS TRIP TO EUROPE, 1900. 
(Present.d and ordered printed Nov. 21, 1900.) 
To THE ScientTiFIC Directors, 
Gentlemen :—Pursuant to a resalution of the Board of Man- 
agers adopted September 20, 1900, I was absent from the Gar- 
den for the seven weeks between September 22d and November 
roth, in attendance at the Paris Exposition and the International 
Congress of Botanists held in conjunction therewith, and also 
ook advantage of the opportunity to visit some e larger 
botanical gardens and museums i rance, Switzerland, Ger- 
many and England, with the object of studying t new methods of 
installation or procedure adopted since my previous similar ex- 
amination of 1891, a n: 
official delegate of the United States Government. This body 
was composed of botanists from France, Italy, Austria, Bel- 
gium, Switzerland, Germany, Russia, Holland, Denmark, ack 
land, Scotland, British India, Australia, Canada, Argentina, 
Brazil and the United States, with the French delegates sae 
outnumbering those of the other nations collectively. The Con- 
