SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 
S P. LANGLEY, Secretary UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 
(». HROWN GOODK, Assistant Secretary, 
in charge of V. R. National Museiun 
I presume you know that all the botanical in- 
terests of the Smithsonian and the Department of 
Agri culture are now united. Doctor Vasey, as hon- 
orary Curator of Botany in the National Museum, has 
charge of all the collections (the National Herbari- 
um). A sectional herbarium is retained in the Mu- 
seum building for the use of Prof. Ward in his paleo = 
botanical work. 
The annual Museum Report on the botanical 
collecti ons will hereafter be prepared by Dr, George 
Vasey. We shall be very glad to have your assi stanc e 
and cooperation in the development of the National 
Herbarium. Everything which is sent to the National 
Museum and Smithsonian Institution for the National 
Herbarium will pass at once into the custody of Dr. 
