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Botany. 
Fortunately the sickness of Miss Carter as mentioned in my last 
Annual Report did not prevent her return to duty during the early 
part of 1900; and since then this lady has worked in the Museum 
and reports as follows. The small collection received from the 
Boston Museum has been catalogued, labeled, and incorporated in 
the Museum. The special labeling of the Lowell collection, begun 
some years ago, has been completed. Considerable progress has 
been made in the systematic arrangement of the collection of dupli¬ 
cates. Fifty specimens of economic fungi have been received from 
Seymour and Earle. Twenty-two persons have been permitted to 
consult and study in the herbarium. 
Paleontology. 
Miss Bryant has unpacked and named and catalogued the Cura¬ 
tor’s collection of Anticosti fossils, which have been stored in the 
cellar for several years. These specimens had been loaned to the 
late Prof. James Hall, but were found, upon being opened, not to 
have been labeled while in Albany. The same assistant has also 
taken care of a small collection received from the estate of Mr. 
Waterston, and has spent some time in the identification of the 
corals recently purchased from Mr. G. K. Greene. 
Mollusca. 
Miss Martin has been occupied mainly in the effort to bring 
together all of the collections in this department, which, owing to 
the absence of proper facilities for storage, have been hitherto neces¬ 
sarily kept in several different places. The Mollusca room has been 
furnished with suitable cases for this purpose, and the work of incor¬ 
porating all the different lots of shells into one single systematic 
collection has made some progress. This necessarily involves a 
large amount of labor that will probably last for several years. The 
same assistant and Miss Bryant have worked over, and placed in vials 
and proper boxes, and numbered, the single shells, and have cata¬ 
logued all of the Gasteropoda of the Roper collection. The Cyreni- 
dae, the most valuable part of the Roper collection, containing a 
considerable number of types of new species and rare shells, were 
brought here by Mrs. Roper on her return from the West, and are 
