19 
Plants received as donations 231 
W. E. D, Halliday, Winnipeg, Man 97 
H. T. Gussow, Ottawa, Ont 71 
D. H. Nelles, Ottawa, Ont 41 
N. Griddle, Ottawa, Ont 15 
George H. Turner, Fort Saskatchewan, Alta 2 
V. E. She! lford, Champaign, Illinois 2 
H. Groh, Ottawa, Ont 1 
J. H. C. Dempsey, Hamilton, Ont 1 
H. F. Lewis, Ottawa, Ont 1 
Plants distributed on account of exchange 1,615 
Universite de Montreal, Montreal, Que 93 
Agricultural College, Oka, La Trappe, Que 263 
Gray Herbarium, Cambridge, Mass.. 344 
University of California, Berkeley, Cal 352 
British Museum, London, England 113 
Kew Botanic Gardens, Kew, England 84 
Botanical Museum, Berlin-Dahlem, Germany 88 
Botanical Division, Government Museum, Stockholm, Sweden 119 
Botanical Museum of the University, Lund, Sweden 95 
Botanical Museum of the University, Helsingfors, Finland 64 
DIVISION OF PALAEONTOLOGY (Geological Survey) 
E. M. Kindle, Chief of Division, reports: 
Considerable attention has been given during the year to the general 
problem of making the very extensive literature in which North American 
fossils are figured and described more accessible to those who use fossils. 
Much of the correlation work on which geology rests depends on the 
quality of the work of the stratigraphic palaeontologist. And the quality 
of his work is conditioned by the efficiency with which he can refer to 
and use described fossils. It is believed, therefore, that not only all 
palaeontologists but all geologists will welcome the plan of bringing together 
in a card file system all of the species of North American fossils that 
have been described in several hundred different publications. No library 
can ever hope to possess all of the publications in which new species of 
fossils have been described, but re-publication on the species card plan 
will eventually make available at a cost within the reach of the smallest 
college library, descriptions and figures of all. 
A proposal to apply to the Devonian faunas of North America the 
species card plan of re-publishing type figures and diagnoses of all 
described fossils, which was submitted by E. M. Kindle to the Toronto 
meeting of the Palaeontological Society of America in 1930, was approved 
and a committee appointed to make plans for carrying out the proposal. 
A report of this committee was presented to the Cambridge meeting of 
the Palaeontological Society in December, 1932. More than a dozen 
palaeontologists have undertaken to co-operate in carrying out this plan for 
Devonian fossils. During the month of August ten days were spent in the 
New York State Museum at Albany, in studying types in connexion with 
this work. 
