Investigations by members of the staff and students were commenced 

 as soon as museum and laboratory facilities were provided in 1899, and 

 have since been continued with such time as has been available beyond 

 that required for administrative and curatorial duties, but this time has 

 necessarily been limited. 



Publication was begun by issuing the first number of the Bulletin, 

 on April 15, 1896, and 32 numbers of the Bulletin, forming seven volumes 

 and part of the eighth volume, have been issued. The series of Contri- 

 butions was commenced in October, 1899, by the publication of Dr. 

 MacDougal's paper "Symbiosis and Saprophytism"; this series has now 

 reached No. 178, forming seven volumes and part of the eighth volume. 

 The first number of the Journal was issued in January, 1900, and has 

 now reached No. 188, forming fifteen volumes and part of the sixteenth. 

 The publication of the Memoirs was begun on February 15, 1900, the 

 first volume containing Dr. Rydberg's "Catalogue of the Flora of 

 Montana and the Yellowstone National Park"; five volumes have been 

 issued. The first part of North American Flora was issued May 22, 1905 ; 

 twenty-four parts have now been issued. Mycologia was commenced in 

 January, 1909, and is now in its seventh volume. All these publications 

 have been aided by the income of the David Lydig Fund bequeathed 

 in 1899 by Charles P. Daly. 



Provisions for membership in the Garden, including Patrons, Fellows 

 for Life, and Annual Members, were made by the Board of Managers 

 at their meeting of March 4, 1896. Provisions for Benefactors, Life 

 Members, Sustaining Members, and Fellowship Members were subse- 

 quently established. 



Officers and Members of the Board of Managers — 1895 to 1915 

 Presidents 



Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1895 to 1898 Addison Brown, 1910 to 1913 

 Darius O. Mills, 1898 to 1909 W. Gilman Thompson, 1913 to date 



Vice-Presidents 

 Andrew Carnegie, 1895 to date Francis Lynde Stetson, 1914 to date 



Treasurers 



J. Pierpont Morgan, 1895 to 1899 Charles F. Cox, 1899 to 1911 



Jas. A. Scrymser, 191 1 to date 



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