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John H. Barnhart; Consulting chemist, W. J. Gies; Superintendent, 

 F. A. Schilling; Landscape engineer, John R. Brinley; Clerk and ac- 

 countant, W. S. Groesbeck; Administrative assistant, Percy Wilson. 



Botany. Cryptogams, 5oo,ooo±, including several thousand 

 types and figured specimens; Phanerogams, 75o,ooo±, including 

 several thousand types and figured specimens. There is a special 

 local herbarium of 10,000 specimens; an economic and a systematic 

 museum, each containing many thousand specimens; public green- 

 houses containing 8000 species and races; a systematic herbaceous 

 garden of 2500 species; a fruiticetum of 700 species and races; an 

 arboretum of 520 species and races; an economic garden of 150 species; 

 a morphologic garden of 100 species; and numerous special and decora- 

 tive plantations. 



Many of the herbarium and garden collections are related to 

 commerce and industry; portions of the collections illustrate geograph- 

 ical distribution. There are also within the grounds examples of 

 glaciated rock surfaces, transplanted boulders, river terraces, a post- 

 glacial gorge, exposures of gneissic and schistose rocks, and other 

 features of geologic interest. 



Paleontology. Fossil plants, on exhibition, 3700, in storage, 

 10,300, types and figured specimens, 1000. Nearly all of the specimens 

 in storage are accessible for study purposes. 



Financial Support. Income from endowment, $13,500; city 

 appropriations for maintenance, $75,000; memberships, $9500; gifts, 

 in 1908, about $9300; sale of publications, $1400. The city is required 

 by its charter to maintain the garden but the amount of the appro- 

 priation is not fixed. 



Buildings. The buildings have been erected since 1898 by the 

 city at a cost of about $700,000. There is 40,000 square feet of floor 

 space available for the museum, 25,000 for the laboratories, library, 

 offices, workrooms, etc., and 60,000 for the public conservatories. 



Administration. By a board of managers. 



Scope. Exploration, research, maintenance of local collections, 

 college and public school teaching, and instruction of the general 

 public. 



Library. 21,230 bound volumes and many thousand pamphlets 

 on botany and horticulture, intended primarily for the use of the 

 staff. 



Publications, (i) Journal of the New York Botanical Gar- 

 den, published monthly, 10 volumes issued. (2) Mycologia, 

 published bi-monthly, first volume begun in 1909. (3) Bulletin of 



