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TABLE OF CONTENTS

No. 46. Juny 30, 1925

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COMMITTEE 2.10.0... 00. eee

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EAR 1924) 3h ee Seer ee ati cee ee anaes 7

Report of the Head Curator of the Museums and

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Report of the Head Gardener ....................... 23
Report of the Director of the Laboratories ........... 28
Report of the Bibliographer ........................ 31
Report of the Librarian .....................0..0--. 32

Report of the Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds 34
Report of the Honorary Curator of the Economie

Collections \<...hes 4 een whee pao hee ee eee 39
Report of the Paleobotanist .....................4-. 40
Report of the Honorary Curator of Mosses ........... 42
Report of the Honorary Custodian of the Local

Herbarium cic528 Sees ei eee ee ees a 43

REPORT OF THE CHAIRMAN OF THE ScrentiFic Drrectors.... 44
SCHEDULE OF EXPENDITURES DURING THE YEAR 1924....... 49
Report OF THE COMMITTEE ON Patrons, FELLows, AND
MEMBERS FOR THE YEAR 1924 .............0..0....0... 60°
REPORT OF THE TREASURER ............ 00-0002 cee eens
REPORTS OF THE SPECIAL AUDITOR ..............-..-... 59, 86

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Report of the Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds
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Report of the Head Gardener ....................... 266
Report of the Honorary Curator of the Iris and
Narcissus Collections ............... 2.00: e eee eee 273
Report of the Director of Laboratories ............... 278
Report of the Bibliographer ........................ 282
Report of the Librarian ............................ 284
Report of the Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds 304
Report of the Paleobotanist .....................20.. 309
Report of the Honorary Curator of the Economic
Collections: eta ne neg eek ee er en 812
Report of the Honorary Curator of Mosses ............ 313
Report of the Honorary Custodian of the Local
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Report of the Head Gardener ....................... 361
Report of the Honorary Curator of Iris and Narcissus
Collections, 1928 ................ 00 cece eee eee 364

Report of the Director of the Laboratories for the
Wear 1928 «ccs sd wien yaaa cute gente pur GUees 368

Report of the Plant Pathologist ................-.+-. 373
Report of the Supervisor of Public Education ......... 376
Report of the Bibliographer ...............-.----45- 379
Report of the Librarian ...................-00 02004: 380
Report of the Paleobotanist ...............-.....-.-. 382

Report of the Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds 385
Report of the Honorary Curator of the Economic

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OF

THE NEW YORK
BOTANICAL GARDEN

ISSUED JULY 30, 1925

CONTENTS

REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT AND CHAIRMAN OF THE EXECU-
TIVE COMMITTEE

Report of the Secretary and Director-in-Chief for the

Year 1924
Report of the Head Curator of the Museums and

Herbarium
Report of the Head Gardener
Report of the Director of the Laboratories 0c cece
Report of the Bibliographer
Report of the Librarian

Report of the Superintendent of Buildings and
Grounds

Report of the Honorary Curator of the Economic
Collections

Report of the Paleobotanist

Report of the Honorary Curator of Mosses 0 ccccccccune

Report of the Honorary Custodian of the Local Her-
barium

Report of the Chairman of the Scientifie Directors .......
SCHEDULE OF EXPENDITURES DURING THE YEAR 1924

Report OF THE COMMITTEE ON Patrons, FELLOwS, AND
MEMBERS FOR THE YEAR 1924

REPORT OF THE TREASURER

REPORTS OF THE SPECIAL AUDITOR o.oo ee. BY,

BULLETIN

The New York Botanical Garden

Vol. 13 No. 46

REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT AND CHAIRMAN
OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

(Approved and ordered printed, January 12, 1928)

Tue Boarp or Managers or THE New York BoTANiIcaL
GARDEN

Gentlemen:

I have the honor to submit a report on certain of the
administrative activities of the Executive Committee and
the Board of Managers during the year 1924.

In order to facilitate an understanding of these mat-
ters, reference should be made to certain events of the
previous year. In April, 1923, the President laid before
the Board a ‘*Statement for the Information of the Board
of Managers,’’ consisting of a survey of the status of the
Garden, accompanied by recommendations regarding de-
sired improvements. These improvements related to
the introduction of more esthetic features of the grounds
and greenhouse collections, the extension of floral ex-
hibits, the broadening of the scope of the Journal, the
more efficient protection of the grounds, the extension of
the scientific research into timely problems of experimen-
tal botany, which in turn would require a larger scientific
staff and additional laboratories, higher salaries and a
pension system for the staff, and, for the installation and

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maintenance of these various features, a substantial in-
erease of the Garden’s funds. These recommendations
were duly approved in principle by the Board. In the
summer of 1923, Messrs. Olmsted Brothers, landscape
architects, were commissioned to make a study of the
grounds of the Garden and submit a comprehensive plan
for their treatment and development. This study was
begun by Mr. Frederick Law Olmsted and his associates
in October, 1923, and a preliminary report was submitted
in the following December. After detailed considera-
tion of the features of this report by the members of the
Board, collectively and individually, and many confer-
ences with Mr. Olmsted and his associates, a final report
was submitted in August, 1924.

Some of the features of this report are as follows:

It points out that the area occupied by the Garden, with
its unusual natural features, some of which have been
sadly mistreated or neglected in the past, can be made
an area of superior beauty, superior interest to visitors
and inspiring to lovers of flowers and gardens and all the
amenities which living plants have to offer to the life of
man. The requisites toward the accomplishment of this
are: improved maintenance of the grounds as existing,
improvements constituting alterations of existing fea-
tures, and improvements constituting new features. Ex-
amples of these improvements are as follows:

The automobile is one of the enemies of beautiful ter-
ritories and—what was not foreseen when its present
road-system was planned—the Garden has now become
one of the great highways of motor-car through-traffic.
Making the Garden merely a convenience in enabling the
mtorist to arrive at his destination is wholly contrary to
it spirit and meaning, and through-traffie should be
either excluded from it altogether or relegated to its
extreme borders. Interior roads are necessary for the
convenience of visitors, but certain of the existing in-

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terior roads may well be eliminated and the ground now
occupied by them be restored to its original natural
beauty. Some modifications and extensions in the sys-
tem of paths should be made for the purpose of dis-
tributing the many visitors who come to see the Garden
on foot and leading them on from one feature to another.
By skilful planning and planting, the western portion
of the area, lying near the entrances through which come
most of its visitors but now one of its least attractive
parts, should offer welcoming and enticing features.
More might be made of the opportunities offered by the
Water Gardens northeast of the Museum building. The
great collection of shrubs near the northern end should
be partly rearranged with a view to better esthetic effects
without diminishing their scientific value. The Horti-
cultural Garden in the southwestern section should be
extended and intensified by the planting on its attractive
slopes of more irises, peonies, chrysanthemums, narcissi,
and other plants which lend themselves to mass effec’s,
and might be the beginning of a transverse vista looking
eastward across the Bronx River. The considerable
area on the east side of the river at this point is now
disfigured by unattractive greenhouses and associated
encumbrances which are retained by the Park Depart-
ment and used for the propagation of ornamental plants
destined for the various public parks of the Borough of
the Bronx. Nearby are the large and unkempt stables
used also by the Park Department for the repair and
storage of Park property. With these aberrant desecra-
tions removed, the large area in question offers remark-
able opportunities for the installation of an inviting
Landscape Garden, with a long north and south vist
tying in with the transverse vista above mentioned, an‘i
marked by an extended lawn and masses of flowering
shrubbery and flowering herbaceous planting, bordered
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this attractive feature, the gorge of the Bronx, now con-
trolled on its eastern side by the Park Department,
should be restored to its original state of rugged, pic-
turesque beauty. Farther to the eastward, the old lake
valley, now deprived of its former water supply, should
be developed as a Rhododendron Glade with a rich and
effective planting of varieties of rnododendrons, azaleas,
ferns, heather, huckleberry, cranberry, laurel, and re-
lated plants. The Cherry Garden in the northeastern
section should be in part replanted to make more effec-
tively beautiful its valuable collection of Japanese flow-
ering and other species. In the series of open spaces in
the southern section bordering Pelham Parkway, there
might advantageously be placed a variety of Model Gar-
dens, changing now and then and purposed to demon-
strate to residents of cities and their suburbs how city
back-yards and small suburban places may be treated, by
proper planting, to relieve their barrenness and make
of them attractive homes.

After full consideration, the Olmsted Report was unan-
imously approved by the Executive Committee and, on
November 20, 1924, by the Board in the following reso-
lution:

Resolved, that the Report of Olmsted Brothers be
approved in principle as a guide for future treat-
ment of the grounds in the Garden except that there
be reserved for future consideration that part of the
Report which deals with the proposed modification
of the present road system; and that this Report be
printed.

It should be added here that the group of the mem-
bers of the Board constituting the Scientifie Directors
began in September, 1924, the preparation of an analog-
ous comprehensive plan for the future scientific research
of the Garden, and that such plan has now been com-
pleted and adopted as a future guide for this very im-

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portant feature of the Garden’s activities. The plan
points out that, while the Garden’s growth up to the
present has provided more or less adequately for re-
search in systematic botany, paleobotany, and economic
botany, research in other fields has had to remain rela-
tively undeveloped; yet it is in these other fields where
lie many pregnant problems of the science of plants.
These deal with the plant as a living organism; its in-
ternal life processes, its relations to the environmental
factors of the air and the soil that are continually acting
upon it, aiding or obstructing its growth; the problem of
its diseases; and the possible ways and means of obtain-
ing new and often better types of plants. These prob-
lems lie within the scope of experimental botany and in
the solving of them the Garden can perform a most im-
portant and timely service to mankind. For their solu-
tion the large and varied collections of the Garden pre-
sent unrivalled opportunities, but there are needed
properly trained experimental botanists and properly
equipped new laboratories.

In the President’s ‘‘Statement’’ of April, 1923, to
the Board of Managers, it was pointed out that the decla-
ration of the purposes of the Garden in the Act of In-
corporation, passed in 1891, reveals ‘‘a two-fold duty
on the part of the Garden—a duty to the lay public and
a duty to botanical science.’’ Now, through the adop-
tion of the Olmsted plan and the plan of the Scientific
Directors, the path is clear along which the Garden
should proceed in performing its duty to the public and
to science. The Executive Committee and the Board of
Managers have recognized fully that the performance
of this duty would require much greater funds than the
Garden has heretofore had at its disposal. Careful esti-
mates have placed the additional funds needed at not less
than $7,000,000. Such a sum must be sought, and its
chief source must be private benefactions. On Novem-

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ber 11, 1924, the Executive Committee voted to enter
upon a campaign to raise the sum of $4,160,000 in order
to begin the realization of the full plan. A Campaign
Committee was appointed and has made plans for enter-
ing immediately upon the task before it. These actions
of the Executive Committee have been duly approved by
the Board.

Such, then, is the situation that confronts the Garden
at the beginning of 1925. The task before this Board
is not a small one, and it can be quickly performed only
through the personal assistance and the personal gen-
erosity of each of the Board’s members. Each member
of the Board ought to regard himself as ex officio a mem-
ber of the Campaign Committee and be willing to lend
a share of his energies in performing its labors. This
may rightly be regarded, I believe, as a test of his inter-
est in the Garden and in the opportunity of putting it
into its rightful position of leadership among the scien-
tific, educational, and philanthropic institutions of the
day.

I beg to append the following documents:

A Statement Concerning The New York Botanical
Garden: Prepared for the Information of the Board
of Managers. April, 1923.

Report on The New York Botanical Garden: By
Olmsted Brothers. 1924.

The New York Botanical Garden: A Report by the
Scientific Directors on the Scientific Research of the
Garden. January, 1925.

The New York Botanical Garden: Its Status and
Needs. 1924.

Respectfully submitted,
Freperic 8. Les,
President, and Chairman of the Executive Committee

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REPORT OF THE SECRETARY AND DIRECTOR-IN-
CHIEF FOR THE YEAR 10924

(Accepted and ordered printed, January 12, 1925)

To tHE Boarp or Manacers or Tae New York Botantcan
GaRDEN.

Gentlemen: I have the honor to submit my report for
the year ending January 12, 1925.

Large increases in the special collections of hardy her-
baceous plants were made during the year, including the
nearly complete primary planting of the new Rock Gar-
den, under the direction of Dr. Southwick, with valued
cooperation by Mr. Clarence Lown, of Poughkeepsie,
and other friends who contributed plants of many rare
and interesting kinds; a new connection with a high-
pressure water-main on Pelham Avenue, made for us
by the City Department of Water Supply, Gas and Elec-
tricity, has greatly improved the water-supply of the
Rock Garden and of the Horticultural Grounds nearby.

The Garden’s floral displays during the past year
have excelled those of any previous year in quantity
and general interest. In the late spring and early sum-
mer, a succession of cool moist days was especially favor-
able to the perfecting and long duration of the flowers.
The exhibits of tulips, irises, and roses were remarkably
effective. The planting of 80,500 tulip bulbs of 154
varieties, given by the Dutch Bulb Growers’ Association,
was referred to in our report of a year ago. The last
week of April, the month of May, and the first week of
June saw the culmination of the brilliant display that
was made possible by that notable gift.

The flowering of nearly 1,200 varieties of iris in late
May and early June gave an attractive show of color in
the Horticultural Grounds. Later, through the super-
vision of Mr. John C. Wister, President of the American

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Iris Society, and Mrs. Wheeler H. Peckham of our Ad-
visory Council, 870 varieties were established in new
beds in alphabetical sequence to facilitate the finding of
named varieties by visitors to this Iris Test Garden,
which is being maintained by the joint efforts of the
American Iris Society and The New York Botanical
Garden.

In the Rose Garden, the 200 climbers given by Bob-
bink and Atkins and planted out last autumn at the foot
of tall red-cedar posts, gave a little foreshadowing of
the future importance of this addition to our rose col-
lection. There are now in the Rose Garden somewhat
more than 4,500 plants. Most of these made a beauti-
ful showing during parts of June and July and many of
them had a prolonged second period of bloom in late
summer or autumn.

The dahlia collection was somewhat enlarged and in-
cluded nearly 1,000 plants, representing about 450 of the
best modern varieties. Last season, for the first time,
groupings of some of the freer-flowering varieties for
color effects was attempted. The bed in which the
orange and salmon-pink varieties were massed was par-
ticularly successful and effective. Both amateur and
commercial growers of dahlias from the metropolitan
area and also from more remote localities appear to be
acquiring the habit of visiting our dahlia border to keep
in touch with the latest developments in this rapidly
growing branch of horticulture.

A notable addition to our collection of ornamentals
was the gift of Mr. A. E. Kunderd, of Goshen, Indiana,
of 4,100 Gladiolus corms, representing 81 varieties, all of
which developed in a most attractive fashion.

The Garden’s floral displays of Japanese cherries,
rhododendrons, ‘‘flowering’’ apples, lilies, rose-mallows,
water-lilics, hardy and indoor chrysanthemums, ete.,
were also instructive and noteworthy.

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Extensive plantations of Narcissus, including 166
species and varieties were made in the southern portion
of the Horticultural Grounds. Altogether nearly 50,000
contributed by the Dutch Bulb Exporters’ Association of
Haarlem, Holland, and some 10,000 were given by Mrs.
Wheeler H. Peckham, of the Advisory Council, or pur-
chased by funds obtained by her for the purpose; she
also directed the planting of these bulbs.

CONTRIBUTIONS TO NARCISSUS FUND

Mr. H. F. du Pont $ 25.00
Miss Irma B. Levy 10.00
Morristown Garden Club 35.00
rs. Charles W. Pr: 5.00
ew Canaan Garden Club 25.00
Hastings Garden Club 5.00
Mrs. Herbert S. Greims 50.00
Larchmont Garden Club. 25.00
Mrs. Elizabeth G. Britton 25.00
3. Theron G. Strong 10.00
Mrs. Wheeler H. Peckham 80.00
The Mount Vernon Garden Club 10.00
The ae en Lovers Club. 15.00
Mrs. H. R. Mallor 25.00
The eer ae peat Club 10.00
North Country Club. 10.00
Garden Club . New Rochelle. 25.00
Total $390.00

The gift of the Dutch Bulb Exporters’ Association
included also 6,000 bulbs of choice varieties of hyacinths.

Under direction of Mr. Percy Wilson, the Herbaceous
Grounds’ collections have been increased by many species,
with considerable rearrangement. Some additions have
also been made to the shrub collections in the Fruticetum
and to those of trees in the Pinetum and the Arboretum.
Rearrangement, replanting, and additions have also been
effected in the flower-gardens. The greenhouse collec-
tions have been increased, especially by plants grown
from seeds; the fine series of bromeliads grown for sev-

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eral years in one of the propagating houses, was trans-
ferred again to public Conservatory Range 2. Nearly
all gardening and horticultural work has been under the
supervision of Mr. Kenneth R. Boynton, Head Gardener,
assisted by Foreman Finley for the out of door collec-
tions, and by Foreman Becker for those under glass;
the collections have become so large and the areas under
cultivation so great that Mr. Boynton needs more trained
assistants, especially in dendrology and floriculture, and
also more gardeners.

Forty-one illustrated public lectures on botanical and
horticultural subjects and twelve excursions about the
Garden were arranged for Saturday and Sunday after-
noons from April 5 to November 29 inclusive, the titles
of which have been published in the Journal. Of these
34 were given by members of the garden staff and 19 by
lecturers from the outside. The Sunday lectures were
very popular during the months of July and August,
as was shown by an increase in attendance over the Sat-
urday lectures, which were better attended in the spring
and fall. From December to March special conservatory
lectures were given in the central display greenhouse of
Conservatory Range 2, where plants and other available
material was used to illustrate them. For these occa-
sions the lecturers were always members of the staff.

Much instruction has been given to the publie by
docentry and otherwise and the correspondence in con-
nection with it has increased substantially.

Our last report referred to the purchase of several
thousand volumes of books, which were duplicates result-
ing from the consolidation of three important botanical
libraries in Geneva, Switzerland. During the past year,
under the supervision of Dr. John Hendley Barnhart,
Bibliographer, and Miss Sarah H. Harlow, Librarian,
most of these books have been examined and listed and
many of them have been incorporated in our library.

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To accommodate this increase, new shelving has been
acquired.

The serial publications of the Garden have been con-
tinued about as usual, though the publication of a scien-
tific number of our Bulletin (No. 45), in addition to the
administrative number (44), represents an advance over
the past two years. This scientific number includes Dr.
Hollick’s ‘‘ Review of the Fossil Flora of the West In-
dies,’? and an important paper on ‘‘Hemlock and its
environment,’’ by Messrs. Moore, Richards, Gleason, and
Stout, which was based in part on studies in our Hem-
lock Grove. Other publications include twelve numbers
of our monthly Journal, six numbers of Mycologia; four
parts of Addtsonia; five parts of North American Flora,
and eleven numbers of Contributions. These publica-
tions have been aided by the income of the David Lydig
Fund and the Addison Brown Fund, though one or two
of them are now approaching a self-supporting basis.

Dr. John K. Small, Head Curator of the Museums and
Herbarium, found time for various lines of botanical re-
search and published a dozen articles dealing with dif-
ferent phases of these investigations. With the generous
assistance of Mr. Charles Deering, a member of the
Corporation of the Garden, he has been able to continue
his exploration of Florida and the Carolinas and has
accumulated further plant material, both living and
dried, that will contribute much to a better understanding
of the flora of the southeastern United States. Dr. Small
has also continued his studies of the North American
species of Iris and of the spider-lilies (Hymenocallis),
and, with the codperation of Miss Eaton, the Artist of
the Garden Staff, he has secured numerous paintings of
species of these and other genera, most of which will be
used for the illustration of Addisonia, accompanying de-
scriptive text that he has prepared.

In connection with his studies of the higher plants of
northern South America, Dr. H. A. Gleason, Curator,

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spent four months during the summer in critical taxo-
nomic work at the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew and at
the Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris. Some of
the important results of these studies have already been
prepared for publication. A new departure in the way
of codperative botanical research is seen in a projected
Flora of British Guiana under the joint authorship of
Dr. Gleason of our staff and Mr. T. A. Sprague of the
Royal Botanic Gardens. The more remote parts of
British Guiana are essentially unexplored and it is an-
ticipated that this investigation will bring out much of
scientific novelty and importance.

Dr. P. A. Rydberg, in addition to his time-consuming
duties as Curator of the herbarium collections of flower-
ing plants, has been able to continue his systematic stud-
ies of various genera of the Pea Family, the Nightshade
Family, and the Thistle Family, and has published some
of the results of his investigations in the North American
Flora and elsewhere.

Dr. Fred J. Seaver, Curator in charge of the Fungi,
has nearly finished his manuscript on the fungus flora of
Porto Rico, prepared for the Botany of Porto Rico, now
being published by the New York Academy of Sciences,
in codperation with The New York Botanical Garden,
the Insular Government of Porto Rico, ete. He is also
continuing his monographic studies on the cup Fungi of
North America. On August 1, he took over the editor-
ship of Mycologia.

Investigations of sterility and fertility in plants con-
tinued to be the chief lines of research activity by Dr.
A. B. Stout, the Director of the Laboratories. At the
Garden his major effort is still with the day lilies and
the true lies. In his study of the lilies, the practical
interest of Mrs. Mortimer J. Fox has again been very
helpful. Cooperation with the New York Agricultural
Experiment Station at Geneva in the study of sterilities

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in various fruit crops and in the breeding of hardy seed-
less grapes is being continued and promises results of
scientific interest and of practical importance in horti-
culture. Codperation with the Oxford Paper Company
in a study of poplar trees has been arranged and con-
siderable progress has already been made in the pro-
jected investigations. Additional equipment for facili-
tating Dr. Stout’s experimental studies at the Garden
is much to be desired.

Dr. Arthur Hollick, Paleobotanist, was granted a five
months’ leave of absence (February 1 to June 30) to
continue his studies of the Tertiary flora of Alaska at
the U. 8. National Museum in Washington in codpera-
tion with the U. 8. Geological Survey. He completed an
extended investigation of the fossil flora of the West
Indies and published the results in the Bulletin of the
Garden. He completed also and published a study of
the Tertiary flora of Brazil, carried on in conjunction
with Professor Berry of The Johns Hopkins University,
and in connection with the Geological Survey of Canada
he has continued his researches on the Pleistocene flora
of the Kootenay Valley in British Columbia.

Dr. Marshall A. Howe, Assistant Director, has looked
after some of the details of administration and during
the absence of the Director-in-Chief in Porto Rico last
winter served as Acting Director. During the last five
months of the year he took over a considerable part of
the work of Supervisor of Public Instruction. He has
also had charge of the Garden’s large collection of dahlias
and the herbarium collections of Algae and Hepaticae.
His published papers during 1924 include a report on
‘“‘Chinese Marine Algae’’ and ‘‘Notes on Algae of Ber-
muda and the Bahamas.’’ In codperation with a mem-
ber of the U. S. Geological Survey, he has prepared for
publication a report on lime-secreting reef-forming ma-
rine algae of Jurassic age from the mountains of Mon-

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tana. <A lecture of Dr. Howe’s on ‘‘Dahlias and their
Culture,’’ published in the Garden Journal for Septem-
ber, 1923, has been reprinted by The Flower Grower, and,
slightly revised, is again in type for the Year Book of
the Massachusetts Horticultural Society.

Such time as I have had available for investigation
has been mainly given to the completion of the Botany
of Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands, now in course of
publication by the New York Academy of Sciences, as a
part of the Scientific Survey of Porto Rico and the Virgin
Islands, in codperation with the Insular Governmnts, the
American Museum of Natural History, Columbia Uni-
versity and other institutions.

The following contributions from members of the Gar-
den made possible much of the educational and scientific
work during the year:

Dr. Robert Abbe $ 50.00
Mr. Fritz Achelis. 100.00
Mr. Edward D. Adams 100.00
tr. Vincent Astor 100.00
Mrs. Hu ca D. Auchineloss 50.00
Mr. Henry de Forest Baldwin 100.00
Miss ee th Billings 73.00
Mr. George Blumenthal cece ene eae 25.00
fr. George P. 190.00
Mr. George 8. Brewster .ccccccescscssccncsssscssesccsmecenen 100.00
L. Britt 550.00

Mrs. Andrew Carnegie “50.00
Mary and as Cheney. 20.00
Mr. 100.00
Mr. Paul 'D. pr ean 100.00
300.00

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100.00

25.00

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200.00

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Mr. J. Horace Harding

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Mr. William J. Matheson
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Mr. Charles Lathrop P ack

Mrs. William H. Woodin
Miss Julia Wray.

$12,775.00

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The portion of the driveway system from the Rose
Garden easterly and northward, long under construction
by the Park Department, was opened for use in August,
after lights along it had been provided by the Depart-
ment of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity, following
a request by Commissioner Hennessy. The narrow and
dangerous road running past the Mansion was then
closed, this new road taking its place. These changes
have greatly improved the conditions, and have much in-
creased the central area of seclusion. Part of the old
road will be available for a path after narrowing and
grading along the sides; its northern end was thus trans-
formed into a path, in the autumn, and connected with
paths formerly constructed, leading east, west, and
north.

The closing of the old road made practicable the demoli-
tion of the dangerous ruins of the Lorillard Mansion,
destroyed by fire on March 26, 1923. This work was
commenced early in October, 1924, and is now largely
accomplished except for the removal of much stone,
brick, and debris, which is in progress, preparatory to
grading and preparing the site for planting. All the
material except rubbish, is being stored for future use
within the Garden.

It is desirable that the interior driveway system be
soon extended by constructing a needed connection from
the Rose Garden westerly across the Bronx River below
the rapids to near the Iris Garden, requiring a bridge
about one hundred feet in length. This connection has
long been considered desirable by engineers of the Park
Department, by Mr. Brinley and by me, and it appears
upon the recent road study by Olmsted Brothers, and on
that of Mr. Waldreaon, Landscape Architect of the Park
Department.

New construction work was limited during the year to
building piers and basement wall for about 350 feet of

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boundary fence along Pelham Avenue, erecting about
7,000 feet of guard rail along paths, and building about
800 feet of path.

By thus limiting development we were enabled to use
a little more labor in maintenance of plantations and
lawns than the year before, especially in the valley of
the Herbaceous Grounds and in the Horticultural
Grounds, with good results, although two months drought
in July and August and another in October were not con-
ducive to luxuriance. Shortage of labor, of gardeners
and of keepers still operates to restrict satisfactory
upkeep.

A liberal city appropriation for repairs and renewals
provided for reglazing the roofs of two greenhouses at
Conservatory Range No. 1, for resetting boilers at Power
House No. 2, for greenhouse, museum and boundary
fence painting, for replacing some greenhouse benches,
and for other minor repairs.

I append reports giving details of maintenance, de-
velopment and instruction by Dr. Small, Head Curator,
by Mr. Boynton, Head Gardener; by Dr. Stout, Director
of the Laboratories; by Dr. Barnhart, Bibliographer; by
Miss Harlow, Librarian; by Mr. Corbett, Superintendent
of Buildings and Grounds; by Dr. Hollick, Paleobotan-
ist; by Mrs. Britton, Honorary Curator of Mosses; by
Dr. Rusby, Honorary Curator of the Economic Collec-
tion; by Dr. Denslow, Honorary Custodian of the Local
Herbarium; and a schedule of expenditures by Mr. Groes-
beck, Bookkeeper.

Respectfully submitted,
N. L. Brirron,
Secretary and Director-in-Chief

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REPORT OF THE HEAD CURATOR OF THE
MUSEUMS AND HERBARIUM

Dr. N. L. Brrrron, Dirrector-1n-CHiEr.

Sir: I submit herewith my report as Head Curator of
the Museums and Herbarium of The New York Botanical
Garden for the calendar year 1924.

The collections and exhibits under my supervision
were developed and conserved as in preceding years.

Specimens from a wide geographic range were brought
together as follows, and accessioned from time to time
in the Journal. A summary is here offered:

By gift and purchase... 5,112 specimens
By exchange 4,855 ss
By exploration 2,071 es

Thus 12,038 specimens were added to the permanent
and duplicate collections. The Old World was repre-
sented by specimens from Europe, Asia, Africa, and
Australia. However, the most valuable accessions—
those connected with the immediate constructive activi-
ties of the Garden—were representatives of the floras of
northern South America, Central America, Mexico, and
Hawaii; of the West Indies, particularly Porto Rico and
the Virgin Islands and Cuba; and of the continental
United States and Alaska.

About 5,000 duplicate specimens were sent to other
institutions and individuals in exchange.

MUSEUMS

The collections comprising the public exhibits were

displayed as heretofore. No new equipment was added.

The Economic Museum was increased by specimens

secured through exploration, by contributions from the

Honorary Curator of the Economic Collection (see his
report), and by miscellaneous gifts.

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The Systematic Museum, comprising the Synoptic Col-
lection, the Local Flora Exhibit, the Plant Picture Col-
lection, and Microscopic Exhibit, remained essentially
as it was in the preceding year, except for the addition
of specimens secured through exploration, and changes
in the objects under the microscopes.

The Fossil Plant Museum was enlarged by specimens
mainly from Porto Rico and British Columbia. For de-
tails see report of the Paleobotanist.

HERBARIA

The specimens actually added to the permanent col-
lections were drawn from material relating directly to
the various interpretative activities of the Garden.

A total of 28,000 herbarium sheets, representing about
36,000 specimens were added to the herbaria. These
were divided between the general herbarium, the local-
flora herbarium, and the Columbia University herbarium.

The local-flora herbarium was cared for by Dr. Her-
bert M. Denslow. For details see the report of the Hon-
orary Custodian of the Local Herbarium.

The moss herbarium was in charge of Mrs. N. L. Brit-
ton. For details see the report of the Honorary Curator
of Mosses.

Various details of the year’s activities are given in the
several items under:

INVESTIGATIONS AND ASSISTANCE

Where the more important and valuable work of the
members of the staff comprising this division is shown:
Dr. P. A. Rydberg, Curator, continued in charge of the
collections of flowering plants. The earlier part of the
year was mostly occupied in completing the moving and
readjusting of the main herbarium, begun during the pre-
ceding year. As a result of additional help in mounting

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specimens, more time than usual was of necessity occu-
pied in sorting and laying out specimens for mounting
or for exchanges, and finally in distributing the mounted
specimens into the herbarium cases. In this work he had
limited assistance from an Associate Curator. The time
left for research and interpretation was principally de-
voted to the vast genus Astragalus and the related genera.
The following papers, prepared during 1922 and 1923
were published: (I). One part of the North American
Flora, containing a part of the tribe Galegeae of Fa-
baceae. (II). Notes on Fabaceae—III. (III). Section
Tuberaria of the Genus Solanum. (IV). Some Senecioid
Genera—I-II. (V). Genera of North American Faba-
ceae—II.

Dr. H. A. Gleason, Curator, had general supervision
of the phanerogamic collections from northern South
America. His duties included the identification and in-
corporation into the herbarium of the more recent collec-
tions from British Guiana, Colombia, and Ecuador, to-
gether with monographic studies on the Vernonieae and
Lobeliaceae of these regions. As a part of his duty he
spent four months during the summer in taxonomic work
at the Royal Botanic Garden, Kew, England, and at the
Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France. The re-
sults of these studies have been embodied in five scien-
tifie papers which have been submitted for publication.
He continued to act as associate editor of Addisonia,
preparing three papers for that publication, and served
as associate editor of the publications of the Torrey Bo-
tanical Club, as vice-president of the American Iris So-
ciety, as director of the Horticultural Society of New
York, and as member of the Board of Control of Botan-
ical Abstracts. Nine papers of his authorship have been
published during the year. He has given five lectures
in the Garden series.

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Dr. Fred J. Seaver, Curator, continued to act as cura-
tor of the ascomycetes and lower fungi, and also of the
higher fungi since the retirement of Dr. Murrill on
August 1, 1924. The study of the fungus flora of Porto
Rico and the Virgin Islands was continued and the manu-
seript resulting from this investigation is nearing com-
pletion. In addition to these duties he acted as unofficial
editor of Mycologia during Dr. Murrill’s sojourn in
South America and also since his retirement from the
Garden staff. He gave six lectures in the Saturday after-
noon course and continued to devote some time to the
study of the work of destructive insects. A number of
minor papers were published during the year. The
major portion of his time devoted to research was spent
on the fungus flora of Porto Rico and in continuation of
the work on the cup-fungi of North America.

Mr. Percy Wilson, Associate Curator, for the first
quarter of the year devoted his time to docentry, to the
determination and distribution into the herbarium cases
of West Indian specimens, and to the preparation of
manuscript and the reading of proof on the Botany of
Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands, in codperation with
yourself. He devoted the remaining three quarters to
studies in the various plantations of the Garden, particu-
larly to developing them and labelling the specimens.

Mrs. William A. Mitchell, Associate Curator, devoted
half time (afternoons) to helping Dr. Rydberg in sorting
and distributing the specimens, duplicate and mounted,
of the flowering plant collections and to rearranging and
renovating parts of the herbaria. She installed a com-
plete series of guide-labels to the families of the flower-
ing-plant herbarium. Much attention was devoted by
her to developing the local flora herbarium in the mat-
ter of arrangement and geographic distribution.

The writer, in addition to the usual curatorial routine
and details, prosecuted several supplementary investiga-

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tions which may be referred to briefly: (1). Continued
general studies in the flora and floristics of the southeast-
ern United States with the result of increasing the col-
lections with desirable specimens, living and dried, and
with a view of interpreting the flora. (II). Devoted
some time to field-work in the exploration of the south-
ern Atlantic States—North Carolina, South Carolina,
and particularly Florida. (III). Continued studies in
North American Iris, both in the field and with the live
collection assembled at the Garden, having to date se-
cured paintings of the eastern States iris, through the
codperation of Miss Eaton, Artist, and prepared descrip-
tive matter, sufficient for two whole numbers of Addi
sonia. (IV). Continued studies in spider-lhes (Hy-
menocallis), both in the field and in the live collections
assembled at the Garden under glass. (V). Increased
the photographic collection, phytogeographic and _his-
toric, relating to Florida and to the Carolinas. (VI). Se-
cured with the codperation of Miss Eaton, a considerable
series of paintings for Addisoma, from subjects sent
directly from the field or from plants and seeds sent from
the field and grown under glass at the Garden, and from
materials secured through correspondence. (VII). Pre-
pared narratives of exploration and miscellaneous popu-
lar and technical manuscripts on subjects and observa-
tions made during explorations, and published from
manuscripts prepared during the year, and previously,
a dozen articles in various periodicals. These various
investigations and the accessions of materials connected
with them, were made possible through the interest and
cooperation of Mr. Charles Deering, member of the Cor-
poration of the Garden. We have also had the advan-
tages, for plantings and experiments, of Mr. Deering’s
reservations at Buena Vista and Cutler, and elsewhere
in Florida. In this connection it might be important to
record that the Deering reservation at Cutler is fast be-

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coming an important botanical garden: a new cactus
plantation has been installed there, a palm garden is in
the making, and scores of miscellaneous specimens estab-
lished at the Buena Vista reservation during the past
decade and a half are being transferred to Cutler. In-
teresting and critical material secured during explora-
tion is introduced and grown at Cutler in the open as
well as under glass at the Garden.
Respectfully submitted,
Joun K. Satu,
Head Curator of the Museums and Herbarium

REPORT OF THE HEAD GARDENER

Dr. N. L. Brrrron, Dirrector-1n-CuHier.
Sir: I have the honor to present herewith my report
for the year 1924.

HORTICULTURAL OPERATIONS

The gardening staff under the direction of Messrs.
John Finley and H. W. Becker, Foremen Gardeners,
consisted of 27 gardeners, 14 laborers, and 1 apprentice
gardener. The outside force, under direction of Mr.
John Finley, after the usual winter lumbering, operated
chiefly in floricultural collections. A new Iris planta-
tion on the hill opposite Fordham Hospital, another in
the lower garden, a supplemental plantation in the peony
garden, and the establishment of the new Narcissus
planting were the additions this year.

The first Iris planting consisted of 30 beds, 4,500 square
feet, the second of 9 beds, about 1,300 square feet, with
2 more beds, 360 square feet, for new mass planting of
dwarf Iris. 1,450 square feet of bed were opened in
the peony garden and planted. 7,000 square feet of
planting bed were opened for the Narcissus collection.
Pelham Avenue, from Southern Boulevard to the Lin-

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nean bridge was planted with 560 flowering shrubs such
as Forsythia, Deutzia, and Viburnum; 20 trees were
planted along roads and paths, and 15 in the fir collection,
2 in the yew collection, 12 in the spruce collection, 32 in
the pine collection and 150 in the Pine Forest Plantation.

Mr. Finley’s force assisted in the Rock Garden expan-
sion, in the Dahlia, Rose, Iris, Canna, Gladiolus, Narcis-
sus, Chrysanthemum, Lilac, Herbaceous, Pinetum and
Arboretum collections, both in planting and caring for
the same.

GREENHOUSE OPERATIONS

Mr. H. W. Becker and greenhouse force have been con-
cerned with usual routine, also with several difficult
changes. The hardy water-lilies were replanted in the
excellent new conerete tank and tubs provided for them
under Mr. Corbett’s direction. Nearly all the plants of
house 4 Range 1 were removed, renovated, and replaced
pending the repairs to the roof. The orchids in house
6A, Range 2, were placed in the other orchid house and
the extensive bromeliad collection returned there for dis-
play. This collection had been renovated at the Propa-
gating Houses. 1,500 plants including 323 Chrysanthe-
mums, 120 Cinerarias, 100 Primulas, 300 Begonias, 150
Pelargoniums, 200 Fuchsias, 150 Hippeastrums, 68 Hy-
drangeas, and 80 Solanums were growng for exhibition
in the Central Display House. The feature exhibition
was again the Chrysanthemum show, the 60 varieties
given by Elmer D. Smith & Co., Adrian, Michigan, being
especially fine this year. An increasing number of seed-
lings were raised for the systematic collection, for the
Rock Garden, for the Flower Gardens, and for the Nur-
series, as well as plants for Dr. Small’s studies of native
irises, for Dr. Stout’s researches, and several thousand
bedding plants.

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SYSTEMATIC PLANTATIONS

Herbaceous Grounds. Dr. E. B. Southwick and Mr.
Perey Wilson have added 550 species of plants to the
herbaceous collection this year, through seeds, gifts, and
collections, these distributed over about 75 families. With
these additions, this collection now contains about 1,250
species; these, added to those of the Rock Garden and
the Flower Gardens and Nurseries, give the Garden a
collection of nearly 3,000 species of herbaceous plants.

Woody Collection. 70 species of hardy woody plants
new to our collections were raised from seed this year,
increasing the plants in nursery available for these col-
lections by about 370 plants.

Conservatories. About 22,964 plants are now in our
greenhouse collection, including 8,352 at Range 1, 9,048 at
Range 2, and 5,564 at Propagating Houses. 80 varieties
of water-lilies, 280 plants, were shown in the Conserva-
tory Court.

MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS

Rose Garden. 200 hybrid tea roses and 25 polyanthas
on half standards were given to the garden this spring
by Bobbink & Atkins, of Rutherford, N. J. The Rose
Garden now contains 4,500 plants, 270 varieties.

Dahlia Garden. 462 varieties represented by 992
plants were grown in the Dahlia Border, under the direc-
tion. of Dr. M. A. Howe.

Iris Garden. The Iris collection contains now about
1,400 varieties. 869 sorts were planted in the new alpha-
betical planting, 56 varieties of the Japanese kinds were
spread over six new display beds, and 40 varieties of
beardless irises were sorted out into four new beds. Mrs.
W. H. Peckham and Mr. John C. Wister supervised the
planting, which was carried out under specifications of
the American Iris Society.

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Narcissus Collection. The Dutch Bulb Exporters’
Association donated to the Garden a collection of Nar-
cissus numbering 37,000. This gift, together with other
kinds given by Mrs. W. H. Peckham and purchased
through the new Narcissus fund gives a display for
1925 of some 47,000 daffodils, 130 varieties, in massed
and naturalistic planting. Mrs. W. H. Peckham planned
and supervised this planting and gave other varieties,
unsuitable for this location, to the Rock Garden.

Hyacinth Display. 6,000 hyacinths, in 6 varieties,
were given also by the Dutch Bulb Exporters’ Associa-
ition. These were planted along the terrace east of Con-
servatory Range 1, where a great show is expected in
the spring.

Gladiolus Collection. Mr. A. E. Kunderd, of Goshen,
Indiana, presented 81 varieties of his Gladioh to replen-
ish our collection, 47 of these varieties being new to the
collection. The whole gift amounted to 4,100 bulbs.

Variegated Plant Collection. 62 varieties, 500 plants,
were displayed in the variegated plant bed.

Hardy Chrysanthemum Collection. 65 varieties, 630
plants, were grown for this display. An increasing in-
terest in this collection was shown by people all over the
country.

Peony Collection. 87 plants, 40 varieties, were added
to the peony plantation, which now contains 166 varieties,
427 plants.

Inly Garden. 260 bulbs were added to the lily garden,
grown by Dr. Stout from seed or given by Mrs. Mortimer
J. Fox.

Inlac Garden. The Lilac collection consists of 560
plants of 185 named varieties.

Canna Collection. 1,500 plants, 58 varieties, were dis-
played in the canna collection.

Tulip Display. 42,000 tulips were sorted out and
planted in the Conservatory Court for a display in the
spring of 1925, more than 100 varieties being kept.

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Rock Garden. 600 species of plants were set out in
the Rock Garden in 1924 under the direction of Dr. E. B.
Southwick. Mrs. W. H. Peckham, presented this col-
lection with about 1,200 bulbs, of Narcissus, Crocus,
Scilla, and 19 other genera. These, together with other
plantings donated by Mrs. M. H. Allen, Mr. Clarence
Lown, and others, greatly increased the size and scope
of the Rock Garden.

LABELING, RECORDING AND HERBARIUM

Under the direction of Mr. John Hartling, Head Gar-
dener’s Assistant, with one label boy, a total of 4,173
labels have been made and placed, including 193 for
the Fruticetum, 492 for the Arboretum, 352 for the
Pinetum, 206 for the Horticultural Grounds, 390 for Her-
baceous Grounds, 314 for Iris Garden, 79 for Rock Gar-
den, 10 for Lily Garden, 45 for Variegated Garden, 315
for Conservatory Range 1, 366 for Conservatory Range 2,
388 for Conservatory Beds, 275 for Dahlia Border, 382
for Rose Garden, 93 for Lilac Garden, 107 for Conserva-
tory Court, 122 for Roads and Paths, 27 for Experiment
Garden. 196 labels were repaired, 2,200 pot labels
painted, 3,000 labels made for stock, and 24 signs were
painted. Mr. Perey Wilson has accessioned, labeled,
and booked 2,500 numbers for the Herbaceous Grounds
and Rock Garden, and helped us with the tree, shrub,
and greenhouse labels. Other accession numbers 52,460
to 54,814 have been recorded, making a total of 2,354
accessions for the year. 3,740 packets of seed, 73 by
gift, 2,700 by exchange, 653 by purchase, 314 by collec-
tion were received. 56,175 bulbs were received, and
4,575 plants; of the latter 1,685 were gift, 587 by pur-
chase, 479 by collection, 680 by exchange, and 1,144 from
seed. 150 specimens were added to the herbarium of
cultivated plants.

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This department has collected material for schools,
nature study, and college classes in botany.

LECTURES

T have delivered 8 lectures in regular courses, and have
demonstrated our collections of shrubs and evergreens
to students of horticulture from Columbia University
and to other classes.

Respectfully submitted,
KennetuH R. Boynton,
Head Gardener

REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR OF THE
LABORATORIES

Dr. N. L. Brrrrox, Drrector-1n-CHIEF.
Sir: I have the honor to submit the following report
for the year 1924.

GENERAL MATTERS

The routine duties relative to such matters as meteor-
ological records, conferences of the Garden Staff, lec-
tures, and assistance rendered to students have been per-
formed. In these, as in the investigational work, Miss
Hester M. Rusk has rendered efficient assistance. Mrs.
Jean Kerr has continued to assist in certain of the ex-
perimental studies. Plans have been made for the im-
mediate construction of eight sashes of cold frames to
afford facilities for growing the increasing number of
seedling lles. This is possible through the continued
financial support of Mrs. Mortimer J. Fox to the project
of breeding lilies. I wish to recommend that electrical
connection be provided either at the Propagating House
or at the present Laboratories, preferably at the latter
place. This will allow the installation of constant tem-
perature chambers for the germination of pollen—an im-

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portant phase of the study of sterilities for which our
present equipment is inadequate.

INVESTIGATIONS

My personal researches and those of students under
my direction continue to be devoted chiefly to studies (1)
of bud variation in special reference to mosaic diseases
and (2) of the phenomena of sterility and fertility. In
several cases the same plant affords material for both
lines of investigation.

In Coleus, Pelargomum, Abutilon, and Iigularia very
definite evidence is being obtained relative to the infec-
tious nature of the mosaic and of its transmission in
vegetative propagation and in seed progenies. In the
two plants last mentioned the sterility from self-incom-
patibility has in the past limited the study of seed pro-
genies,

For the study of sterility and fertility, cultures of
Inlium, Hemerocallis, Pelargonium, Brassica, Lythrum,
and sweet potato have continued to yield important re-
sults. In Hemerocallis, hybrids of numerous crosses
have bloomed. Some of these are decidedly new and
beautiful in flower coloring and worthy of general gar-
den culture. Arrangements were made with Mr. Ber-
trand Farr, shortly before his death, for the propagat-
ion, naming, and distribution of the best of these day-
lilies in codperation with the Wyomissing Nursery Co.
The investigations with various species of Lilium in
cooperation with Mrs. Mortimer J. Fox are progressing
along the lines already defined and reported to you. A
preliminary report on ‘‘Seedling lilies’’ appeared in the
July number of our Journal. The increasing numbers of
lily seedlings demand so much space and time that the
purchase of new bulbs has been almost discontinued.
Already a considerable number of plants of our own
rearing has been supplied for display planting.

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With your permission, investigations have been con-
tinued away from the Garden as follows. Ten days dur-
ing the summer were spent at Presque Isle, Maine, in
continuing the study of sterilities of potatoes during
which germination tests were made of 1,595 samples
of pollen. A total of about six weeks during the spring
and autumn were spent at the New York State Experi-
ment Station at Geneva in the codperative studies of
sterility and in the breeding of grapes for seedlessness.
Examination and germination tests were made of the
pollen of 227 varieties and seedlings of various fruits.
A careful study was made of the flower behavior of the
Courtland apple, the Baldwin apple, and the Winter
Nelis pear. Tests for self-fruitfulness were made for
six species and twelve named varieties of the pear and
for fifteen species and three named varieties of the apple.
Some crossing in the work of breeding grapes was ac-
complished. It is the plan to prosecute vigorously these
lines of research during the coming year. They promise
to yield results of high scientific interest which are of
value in horticulture.

Coéperation with the Oxford Paper Company in re-
search with the genus Populus along lines approved by
you has been undertaken as a new project. Mr. E. J.
Schreiner was secured for this work and is spending
much of his time at the Garden. The work is progress-
ing rapidly. In respect to the Garden in particular, the
work has involved the increase of our collection of living
poplars and the assembling of a very complete herbarium
of species and varieties of Populus with also over 100
splendid pictures.

STUDENTS AND SCHOLARS
During the year the following persons have been for-
mally registered for research at the Garden:

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Carmen, Joseph, Plant Breeding and Pathology.
Degener, Otto, Systematic Botany.
Gaiser, Lulu O., Cytology.
Keck, David D., Plant Breeding.
Schreiner, Ernst J., Research with Populus.
Stauffer, John C., Biochemistry.
Swabey, Marjorie, Plant Breeding.
Varrelman, Ferdinand A., Plant Breeding.
Waller, Adolph E., Bibliography.
Wodehouse, Roger P., Studies with Pollen.
Respectfully submitted,
. B. Srout,
Director of Laboratories

REPORT OF THE BIBLIOGRAPHER
Dr. N. L. Barrton, Drrector-1n-CHier.

Sir: I have the honor to submit the following report for
the year 1924.

The checking up and disposition of the large book-pur-
chase from Geneva, mentioned in my last report, has
occupied much of the time of the Bibliographer, as well
as of the Librarian. This work is still far from com-
pletion, but the employment of special assistance during
the latter part of the year has made possible much more
rapid progress.

Within a few months will occur the twentieth anniver-
sary of the appearance, in May, 1905, of the first part of
North American Flora. Of the 34 volumes planned, half
have been begun and one finished; the total number of
pages issued is 4,376, an average of about 220 pages each
year. Of the 54 parts, 26 are devoted to flowerless plants
and 28 to flowering plants. Of the 99 families of plants
thus far treated in whole or in part, 37 are families of
eryptogams and 62 of spermatophytes. The work has
always been done under the supervision of an editorial

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committee, but all of the manuscript-revision, proof-read-
ing, bibliographic correction, and other endless editorial
detail, has been from the beginning delegated to the
writer.

Of North American Flora, five parts have been issued
during the year: volume 25, parts 4 and 5, in March;
volume 24, part 4, and volume 7, part 9, in October; and
volume 10, part 4, in November; several more parts of
volume 7 are in press. The concluding number of vol-
ume 8, and three numbers of volume 9, of Addisoiia, have
been published.

In addition to the routine work pertaining to his office,
the Bibliographer has given three lectures in the Garden
courses on Saturday afternoons.

Respectfully submitted,
Joun Henpiey Barnuart,
Bibliographer

REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN
Dr. N. L. Brirron, Director-1n-CHrer.

Sir: [have the honor to submit the following report for
the year 1924.

The census of the library recently taken shows a total
of 33,636 bound volumes, a gain of 1,325 over the census
of 1923. Of these there were acquired by gift 32, by
exchange and deposit 20, and by purchase 49. In addi-
tion there have been accessioned during the year 581
bound and 122 unbound volumes of the Geneva collection
purchased in 1923. There have been bound 585 volumes
belonging to the Garden and 34 to Columbia University,
while the rebinding has included 18 belonging to the
Garden and New York Academy of Sciences and 12 to
Columbia. No detailed account of the pamphlets acces-
sioned has been kept but more than 300 treating in a
popular manner of economic botany, forestry, horticul-

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ture, and landscape gardening and a large number of
more scientific articles by American and foreign authors
have been fully catalogued and added to the collection.

The principal accessions have been listed as heretofore
in the Journal.

There have been added to the catalogue 2,052 type-
written cards and 4,159 of those issued by the Torrey
Botanical Club.

wo new folio cases have been added to the stack room
and are already filled.

The following omissions and additions should be made
to the list of serials as appended to as report of the
Librarian for 1921 (Bulletin 12: 41-61) and supplemented
in the report for 1922 (12: 189) and 1923 (12: 211, 212).

Omit the following:

Anales Cientificos Paraguayos: Botanica, Puerto Bertoni, Paraguay.
*Archiv fiir Zellforschung, Le ae German
Arquivos Indo-Portugueses de Medicina e Historia Natural, Nova Géa, India,
Lisbon. Instituto pe se Camara Pestana, Lisboa, Portugal.
Arquivos.

Change the following:

Bulletin Joseph Paquet, to Le Midi Horticole, Nice, Fran
American Forestry to American Forests and Forest Life, ae etd. D.C.

Add the following:

erat Botanical Society of Prague, Preslia.
orp Botanique - 1’Université, Dorpat, Esthonia. Seed Lists.
Folia aes Szeged, Hungary.
*Journal of Pomology and "Horéenltural Science, London, eho
Lithuania. Université. Faculté des Sciences, Kaunas, Lithuania, Mémoir
rague. University, are Czecho-slovakia. Studies ea the ie
Physiological Laboratory.
*Revue en ie France.
Société Botanique de Russie, Leningrad, Russia. Journal.
Tropical Agriculture, Trinidad, B. W.
*Zeitschrift fiir Zellen-und- Gowebelohis, Berlin, Germany.

Respectfully submitted,
ARAH H. Hartow,
Inbrarian

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REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF
BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS

Dr. N. L. Brrrron, Director-1n-CHIEF.
Sir: [have the honor to submit the following report for
the year 1924.

REGULATING AND GRADING

Considerable grading has been done in the Garden
during the year. Both sides of the traffic road from 200th
Street to the South Gate were graded, sodded, and sown
with lawn-grass seed. The road leading to the Mansion
from the main road was changed to a foot path, and in
order to accomplish this it was necessary to grade and
sod a gutter 10 feet wide and 150 long along the road.
The two sides of the new path through the oaks in the
arboretum were graded and the sides of the path leading
from the Rose Garden to the Glen were sodded as well
as graded. Nearly an acre of ground was sown with
lawn-grass seed at the southeastern entrance along Pel-
ham Parkway.

For many years contractors working in the vicinity of
the Garden who were looking for a suitable place to dis-
pose of soil taken from excavations have been carting
such soil into the Garden. This year they brought in
about 1,000 yards of this soil, at their own expense, and
this was placed on the eastern bank of the Long Lake
so as to help fill in the bottom of the valley.

DRAINAGE

A culvert was built under the path at the north end of
the upper lake so as to catch the rain from the west drive,
and two culverts and cross paths were built in the Rose
Garden. The large culvert which takes the overflow from
the ponds in the Herbaceous Grounds was widened for
about 100 feet. A catch-basin was built, and 38 feet of

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6-inch tile pipe were used to drain the corner of the new
road near the stable.

WATER SUPPLY

A 6-inch connection to the 20-inch high-pressure water
main was made near the Iris Garden at Pelham Parkway
and two gate valves were used to make this connection.
We are now connected with both the high- and low-pres-
sure water mains, but have closed off the low-pressure
main. At the present time there is a 20-pound water
pressure at the Rock Garden, and a hose tap has been
connected on this line in order to water the plants on
the top of the hill. The fire hydrant on the west drive
near the Museum Building which had been broken was
replaced with a New York standard hydrant. All nec-
essary repairs were made to the water system in the
Museum Building and comfort stations as well as to the
drinking fountains throughout the Garden.

PATHS

The new road on the eastern side of the Garden was
completed by the Park Department and opened to the
public. The northern part of the old road leading to
the Mansion is being used as a foot-path only, and about
200 feet of this road was narrowed to a foot-path 10 feet
wide. The 10-foot cross-paths were built at the connec-
tion of the new road with the cross roads. <A 10-foot
path 200 feet long was built from the Mansion path to
meet the path leading from the Boulder Bridge. The 10-
foot path 400 feet long at the southeastern entrance to
the Garden, which was begun last year, has been com-
pleted and extended further north for a distance of 408
feet, with a branch path 50 feet long. The unfinished
path 534 feet long in the climbing rose garden was also
completed, as well as an unfinished path 10 feet wide and
220 feet long in the pienie grounds on the western side

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of the Bronx River. The paths in the Iris Garden and
those around the terrace and flower beds at Conservatory
Range 1 were resurfaced and rolled, and all the paths in
the northern part of the Garden were cleaned and re-
surfaced.

BUILDINGS

The window sashes and doors on the first and second
floors of the Museum Building received two coats of
paint, and the walls of rooms 35 and 55 on the top floor
were repaired and painted. The roof of the Museum
Building was covered with a coat of Supereote, which has
stopped all the leaks, and considerable plastering was
also done in the building. The carpenters made all nec-
essary repairs to the windows and doors, and the steam
and water systems were also repaired by our steam engi-
neers.

All the glass and sash bars of the roof of house 4, Con-
servatory Range 1 were replaced and two coats of paint
given to the entire house. Eight lines of 3-inch copper
leader pipe 40 feet long were replaced. The benches of
house 12 were replaced with concrete benches, two side
benches 80 feet long and a double center bench. The
painters replaced all the broken and loose glass at Con-
servatory Ranges 1 and 2. Repairs were also made to
the sash-bars at the Propagating Houses and all broken
glass was replaced there also.

The floors of the stalls at the stable were repaired.
The fire boxes of the five boilers at Power House 1 were
rebuilt and all needed repairs to the steam system were
made. At Power House 2 the brickwork on boiler 7 was
taken down and rebuilt, and necessary repairs to the
steam system were made there also.

The heating systems of Conservatory Ranges 1 and 2
and the Propagating Houses were repaired by our steam
engineers. The steam line running from Power House

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1 to Comfort Station 2 under the Elevated Railway Ap-
proach was replaced with new pipe and the 4-inch steam
pipe in the trench from Power House 1 to the Museum
Building was also repaired.

The stone walls and all the brick partition walls of the
Mansion have been taken down to the level of the first
floor. All the stone, brick, window-frames, doors, and
timbers are being stored away for future use. The stone
will be used for boundary fences and paths, and the brick
will be used to construct catch-basins and to make repairs
throughout the grounds. The roof of Comfort Station
No. 3 was reshingled and valleys, gutters, and leaders
replaced.

GROUNDS

The floor of the hardy-waterlily tank in the court of
Conservatory Range 1 was raised seven inches and forty-
eight concrete tubs 15 x 30 x 30 inches were built therein.

The cedar fences at the Woodlawn Road Approach and
along the Bronx River were repaired by the carpenters,
as well as all the one- and two-rail iron fences throughout
the grounds. Along the path going east from the Iris
Garden Entrance and that running east of the Iris Gar-
den road, 2,070 feet of a two-rail fence was built. An-
other two-rail fence, 3,457 feet long, was built from the
southern end of the Boulder Bridge through the Hem-
lock Grove. At the southern end of the Herbaceous
Grounds and east of the Rock Garden, 1,100 feet of a
11-inch one-rail fence was put up. On the eastern side
of the main road running north from the Southern Boule-
vard Entrance, 117 feet of a 1-inch one-rail fence was
also built. Along the path from the Southern Boulevard
Entrance gate to Conservatory Range 1, 380 feet of a
3-inch one-rail fence was put up and another fence 340
feet long was built along the path west of Conservatory
Range 1. All of the above-named iron fences received

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two coats of paint, and 1,200 feet of the high iron fence
at the Fordham College boundary received two coats of
paint also.

Along Pelham Parkway east of the Bronx River,
eleven stone piers 8 feet high, with caps, and 278 feet of
a rubblestone wall 18 inches high, with coping stone, were
constructed. East of the Iris Garden Road, along Pel-
ham Parkway, five piers 8 feet high, with caps, and 126
feet of a rubblestone wall 18 inches high with coping
stone were also put up.

Repairs were made to five rustic benches, and the signs
and maps placed around the grounds were repaired and
replaced wherever necessary. The wood cut from dead
and fallen trees supplied the Propagating Houses with
wood fuel for four and a half months. Nearly sixty tons
of hay were cut and the uprooting of poison ivy was con-
tinued.

About a dozen picnics a week, averaging from about 50
to 1,000 children, visited the Garden from May until Sep-
tember. These children were from the public and Sun-
day Schools throughout Greater New York and New
Jersey, and were escorted to the pienie grounds set aside
for these parties by our special guards who were detailed
there daily.

From May until October two police officers in civilian
clothes were stationed in the Garden. On Saturdays,
Sundays and holidays four additional uniformed police
officers were assigned to the Garden. In addition to our
own keepers, twelve guards were selected from the labor-
ers and gardeners who patroled the Garden on Sundays
and holidays. A city officer was detailed here every day
during the past year. About 275 summonses were served
by the police officers for violations of park ordinances.
The offenders were fined from two to twenty-five dollars
by city magistrates.

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During the summer months, on Saturdays, Sundays,
and holidays, the visitors to the Garden averaged about
50,000, which number was greatly augmented during July
and August.

Little damage was done to the plantations, because of
the watchfulness of our employes. Special guards were
assigned to the rose, gladiolus, and dahlia collections all
night long as well as in the day time, as the number of
admirers is constantly increasing.

Respectfully submitted,
ArtHuR J. CoRBETT,
Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds

REPORT OF THE HONORARY CURATOR OF THE
ECONOMIC COLLECTIONS

Dr. N. L. Brtrron, Direcror-1n-CHrer.

Sir: I have the honor to submit the following report of
the Economic Collections for the year 1924.

There is little of a special nature to report in the work
of the Economic Museum for the past year, activity
having consisted chiefly in attention to routine proce-
dures. Some specimens have been renewed and the
labels of many others have been corrected or modified
in the light of fuller information. About fifty exhibits
have been added. The most important of these is a
complete set of cultivated blueberries donated by Miss
Elizabeth G. White, of New Lisbon, N. J. Since the
founding of the Museum, our native blueberries and
huckleberries have received close attention. Our col-
lection of these fruits, though by no means complete, is
large and interesting, and the addition of fine specimens
of all the named cultivated varieties is an important con-
tribution. The clusters of these berries are as large as
small bunches of grapes, and some of the individual ber-
ries Measure an inch in cross-section.

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The classification of the general botanical collections
of the Mulford Exploration is now about completed, a
result that will make it practicable to study more defi-
nitely the economic collections of that expedition, a work
to which attention will be directed during the coming
year. For that year, also, is planned an extensive collect-
ing trip to Nova Scotia and the country to the northward,
a section particularly rich in edible wild berries and
berry-like fruits. Here, we are expecting to secure a
number of articles which have been desiderata for many
years.

Respectfully submitted,
H. H. Russy,
Honorary Curator of the Economic Collections

REPORT OF THE PALEOBOTANIST

Dr. N. L. Brrrron, Dirrecror-1n-CuHier.

Sir: I have the honor to report as follows upon paleo-
botanical matters which have received my attention dur-
ing the year 1924.

From February 1st to June 30th I was in Washington,
D. C., on leave of absence, engaged in work on the fossil
flora of Alaska for the U. S. Geological Survey.

In January, previous to departure, I completed the
final editing of the manuscript of the fossil flora of the
West Indies and submitted it for publication. I also
finished the last few items that required attention in
connection with the joint work with Professor E. W.
Berry of Johns Hopkins University, on a fossil flora
from Brazil. Each of these works was issued during the
year—the former under the title, ‘‘A Review of the Fossil
Flora of the West Indies, with Descriptions of New
Species,’”’ and the latter as, ‘‘A Late Tertiary Flora
from Bahia, Brazil.’’

From the time of my return, in July, until the end of
the year, the principal item of investigation was con-

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cerned with the Pleistocene flora of the Kootenay Valley,
British Columbia, in connection with specimens trans-
mitted by the Canada Geological Survey. A large ship-
ment of this material was received during the year, ad-
ditional to that previously received and reported upon.
About one hundred specimens (Lot No. 30, Ace. No. 13)
will be added to the Museum collection from this source.

We also received—a gift from Senor Don Narciso
Rabell, of Porto Rico—a collection of about thirty speci-
mens (Lot No. 29, Acc. No. 12) of fossil plant remains,
presumably of Tertiary age, from the vicinity of the
Collazo River.

I also received, examined, and reported upon a speci-
men of sandy peat containing fragments of wood and
other plant remains (Lot No. 31, Acc. No. 14), found in
an excavation in lower Manhattan; and a specimen of
baked shale containing plant remains (Lot No. 32, Ace.
No. 15) from La Brea, Trinidad, W. I.

Accessions of paleobotanical literature were unusually
numerous—for the most part representing exchanges.
Forty-five separates were received from nineteen differ-
ent authors, four of whom were not previously repre-
sented on our exchange list. Eight accessions were also
received as gifts.

On request of Professor H. Ries, of Cornell Univer-
sity, a series of ten specimens of silicified wood, mostly
from the West Indies, was selected from duplicate mate-
rial in the Garden collection and transmitted for research
work.

In connection with the public lecture courses it was my
privilege to give one on August 30th, on ‘‘The Hudson
River Valley before the Advent of Man,’’ and one on
November 29th, on ‘‘The Geology of the New York
Botanical Garden.’’

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Abstracts of all my geological and paleobotanical
papers published during the year were prepared and
transmitted to the Revue de Géologie.

Respectfully submitted,
ArgtTHur Ho.tiick,
Paleobotanist

REPORT OF THE HONORARY CURATOR OF MOSSES

Dr. N. L. Brirron, Drrecror-1n-CHIeF.

Sir: Additions to the collections of mosses have been
received from Professor L. H. Bailey, of Ithaca, N. Y.,
and Dr. John W. Bailey, of Washington. E. H. Bartram
has sent some interesting specimens from Arizona and
New Mexico. Professor J. M. Holzinger has contributed
fascicle 21 of his exsiceatae and Dr. George EK. Nichols
duplicates of his mosses of Michigan. Brother Leén has
continued his Cuban exchanges, and some notable species
of our collections in Porto Rico have been added. The
National Museum in Washington has sent us all their
mosses for naming, and as many of them are Central and
South American species, Mr. Williams has studied and
named them, as well as the miscellaneous small packets
that come from members of the Sullivant Moss Society,
of which he has served as president during the year.

My own time has been largely spent in conservation
work, having been called upon for illustrated articles for
the Rural School Leaflets, the Girl Scouts, and other
similar organizations. Recently I have been appointed
Chairman of the Conservation Committee of the Feder-
ated Garden Clubs of New York State. I have also
visited a number of the local garden clubs and given
illustrated lectures at Trenton, Bedford, ete. A keen
and growing interest in the replanting of Fringed Gen-
tian and Holly was aroused and Dr. Stout and Dr. Norton
have supplied seeds and information.

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From the Stokes Fund a series of colored lantern
slides have been added to the collection and a Holly
postal card has been distributed. It reads as follows:

MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Save your Holly berries and plant them at once in pots.
Have your own Holly trees and some to give your friends.
There will soon be no more Holly unless we all help.
New York Botanica GarDEN
Stokes Funp FoR THE PRESERVATION OF
Native Puanrts.

It was illustrated with photograph of small plants in
pots. The demand for this card has been so great that
we shall have to reproduce it again this year.
Respectfully submitted,
ExizaBetH G. Brirron,
Honorary Curator

REPORT OF THE HONORARY CUSTODIAN OF THE
LOCAL HERBARIUM

Dr. N. L. Barrton, Directror-1n-CHIEF.

Sir: I have the honor of presenting herewith my report
for the year 1924 as Honorary Custodian of the Local
Flora Herbarium.

The work of arranging the mounted sheets systematic-
ally has been carried on, as in the two years just pre-
ceding, chiefly by Mrs. William Mitchell; and is now fin-
ished. It is now a simple matter to find in a moment the
specimens in our local collection from any of the sixty-
one counties in our local area. The plotting of the dis-
tribution on small-scale maps, one for each species, has
now begun.

Additions to the Local Herbarium have been made to
the extent of about 900 sheets, chiefly from material col-

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lected on the longer Torrey Club trips and, during the
summer, by the Custodian. There are also collections by
Mr. Perey Wilson and Mr. W. C. Ferguson which have
not yet been examined and counted.
Respectfully submitted,
H. M. Denstow,
Honorary Custodian

REPORT OF THE CHAIRMAN OF THE SCIENTIFIC
DIRECTORS

To THE Boarp or Manacers or THe New York Boranicau
GaRDEN.

Gentlemen: The Scientific Directors have held their
regular meetings throughout the year and have con-
sidered many routine matters relating to the scientific
work of the Garden. The full account of the scientific,
educational, and other activities of the Garden is given
in the report of the Director-in-Chief and I need mention
only a few points for special emphasis.

The form of the Garden Journal has been changed and
an effort is being made to present scientific material of
particular interest to the Garden members.

Dr. Gleason’s work during the summer in the great
herbaria of London and Paris has notably advanced our
knowledge of the collections of South American plants
brought together by recent Garden and other explo-
rations.

The large and varied series of fungi obtained by Dr.
Murrill on his South American trip has markedly en-
riched our material in this field. This collection includes
types and other important specimens from Spegazzini
who has been a life-time student and collector of South
American fungi.

Dr. Stout’s work on problems concerned with seed pro-
duction in potatoes has been brought to a stage of ap-

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proximate completion with the development of evidence
that, with due regard for compatibility in the selection
of pollen parents, tuber production and seed production
do not necessarily tend to mutually inhibit each other.
Dr. Stout has also taken up advisory work in connection
with certain projects for growing pulp-wood which
promise the opportunity for study on a large scale of
problems of tree growth, especially in connection with
the possibility of utilizing hybrids.

In connection with the plans for enlarging the support
of the Garden, which are now under consideration, the
Scientific Directors, at the suggestion of the President,
have spent some time in the consideration of matters
related to the more adequate development of the Gar-
den’s research work. On the basis of this study and
after full discussion they have formulated plans for en-
larging the work of the Garden in various lines which
its location, its present equipment, and collections, and
its relation to the City suggest as timely. These plans
are embodied in a report which is here submitted for
filing in the records of the Board of Managers, and will
ultimately be distributed in printed form.

Many of the fields of work here suggested have been
long discussed and agreed upon. The need of adding a
pathologist to the Garden staff has been long recognized.
The protection of our existing floral and forest planta-
tions as well as those extensions for which we are plan-
ning makes absolutely necessary the employment of ex-
perts, who can advise and direct our floriculturists and
gardeners on the numerous problems of fungus and in-
sect pests with which they are confronted, and by which
our plantations are now in a number of cases seriously
menaced.

It is noteworthy in this connection that with the pres-
sure of work on the diseases of our great agricultural
and horticultural crop plants, the diseases of ornamen-

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tals in general, and the diseases of park and other muni-
cipal decorative plantations have been largely and in
many cases wholly neglected by our state experiment
stations. If our pathological service is to be effective,
the establishment of a well-planned research organiza-
tion is a necessity and we have recommended in the re-
port that the work of the Garden be extended to cover
this field.

The normal activities of a great botanical garden in
maintaining collections of plants representing adequately
the native vegetation of the earth afford very unusual
opportunities for fundamental studies of the relations of
heredity and environment, and all the other problems
whose present day importance the new science of genetics
is so strongly emphasizing. The great floricultural col-
lections, which bring together from all over the world the
latest products of the breeder’s art, as well as maintain-
ing the earlier types for comparison, are not only of
great service to dealers and growers as a means of cer-
tifying what is genuinely new and distinctive, but consti-
tute invaluable material for the studies of the geneticist.
The cost of bringing together and maintaining such col-
lections can be met in no other way more advantageously
than by utilizing their artistic and educational value in
a botanical garden and park system. We are recom-
mending provision for the fuller utilization in research
of the materials in this field which are already so well
represented in the Garden.

The maintenance for the future of the native forest
trees of the Garden and its hemlock grove, under the in-
creasingly intensified city conditions by which the Gar-
den is surrounded, lays an especial duty upon us to study
the very numerous unsolved problems relating to the soil
and atmospheric conditions which affect the life of trees
as well as other vegetation. We have already begun in
a limited way a study of the climatic conditions which

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characterize the regions in which the hemlock forms natu-
ral forest growths. We are recommending the provision
for more intensive studies of many problems of tree
feeding, of atmospheric pollution, and of soil moisture
and aération.

The New York Garden is unusually diversified in its
topography and presents a very wide range of conditions
as to soil depth and quality, exposure, drainage, and soil
and air moisture. This diversity of habitats is well
adapted to the purposes of a botanical garden. No
other garden in the world is more favored in its natural
location. This situation brings with it unusual oppor-
tunities for a wide study of soils in their relations to root
growth and plant nutrition, and we have outlined a num-
ber of problems in this field. The microscopic organisms
found in soils are known to have very important rela-
tions to soil fertility but, with the exception of a few
groups, have been little studied. The great collections
of algae and fungi in the Garden herbarium will be very
useful in the study of these soil organisms.

The Scientific Directors, in preparing this report, have
further felt that The New York Botanical Garden has a
part to play in the development of the newer phases of
experimental plant science. There are fundamental
problems of disease which can be more effectively at-
tacked on plant materials than on any others. The germ
diseases, whether of plants or animals or man, form one
common group in many of their fundamental relations to
the living organism. Such problems as those presented
by individual immunity and its inheritance; the problems
of epidemiology and many others, are the same through-
out the plant and animal kingdom and can be attacked
more directly in many eases on plant material.

There are fundamental long-time problems as to the
growth and reproduction of trees on which the success of
forestry practice and reforestation must depend, which

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an endowed institution like the Garden with its con-
tinuity of organization can especially well attack. It is
our opinion that this is also true of many problems in all
the fields of work outlined in our report.
Respectfully submitted,
R. A. Harper,
Chairman, Scientific Directors

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SCHEDULE OF EXPENDITURES DURING THE

YEAR 1924

1. Ciry Mainrenance Account

Salaries Regular Employees
Appropriated
Expended

Balance
Wages Temporary Employees
Appropriated
Expended

Forage and Veterinary Supplies
Appropriated
Expended

Fuel Supplies
Appropriated (Budget Acc.) .
Appropriated (Revenue Bond Ao

Total
Expended (Budget Ace.) cscs
Expended (Revenue Bond Acc.)

Total

_ $ 25,000.00

24,997.75

Balance
Office Supplies

Appropriated

Expended

Balance
General Plant Supplies
Appropriated
xpende

Balance
General Plant Equipment

Appropriated
xpended

Balance
4

$142,839.00
142,709.83

129.17

12,796.80

12,796.80

373.00
373.00

4,400.00

29,400.00

4,399.40

29,397.15
2.85
300.00
298.14
1.86
1,000.00
998.71
1.29

1,000.00

999.71
29

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General Plant Materials

Appropriated $ 2,300.00
Expended 2,297.48
Balance 2.52
Repairs and Replacements
Appropriated 26,300.00
Expended 26,298.90
Balance 1.10
Light Heat and Power
Appropriated 350.00
Expended 317.82
Balance 32.68
Shoeing and Boarding Horses
including Veterinary Service
Appropriated 150.00
147.00
Balance 3.00
Telephone Service
Appropriated 195.00
Expended 158.94
Balance 36.06
Summary—City Maintenance Account
Appropriated (Budget Ace.) ............. $212,603.80
Appropriated (Revenue Bond Ace.) 4,400.00
Total 217,003.80
Expended—Salaries and Wages ........... 155,506.63
Expended—Sundry Expenses |... 61,286.35
Total 216,792.98
Balance: <ccosiorsc fe cieatialiaiee a tht a 210.82

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2. SPECIAL GARDEN ACCOUNTS
Puant Funp

Balance from 1928 $ 241.25
Contributions oc ccccce sssssesseneenneee 395.00
Sale of plants 25.00
Sale of hay 45.00

Total $ 706.25
Expended—Lily bulbs woo cccccscmen 106.56
Expended—Narcissus bulbs 355.50
Expended—Sundry items 0.0... 164.61

Total 626.67

Balance 79.58

SpeciaL Book Funp
Balance From 1923 cocccoseeoseccnerines vovieie 102,76
Contributions 4,695.00
Sale of duplicate DoOKS nen 527.85
5,325.61

Transferred to Publication Fund .... 650.00

Total _) 4,675.61
Expended—Books 4,372.65 >,
Expended—Supplies cc. ccsccunnennene 184.90 '\

SD Ob al eect eaten oe aoe cette atch 4,557.55

Balance ss ciciitesedscdl ha stictedemeied fae 118.06

ExXPLoRaTION Funp

Balance from 1923 16.14
Contributions 1,550.00
RELUD sicccts ses: oehctiisanaticath sadly olgelerne Mite 6.7

Total _ 1572.91
Expended—Exploration 0. ccc 1,432.06 |:
Expended—Supplies ............ ee ee 99.81 ©

Total 1,531.87

Balance by 41.04

Musrum anp Herparium F'unp
Balance from 1923 26.01

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Contributions $ 1,660.00
Sale of paper 15.00
Total $ 1,701.01
Expended—Specimens «0... ccc 248.30 *
Expended—Supplies 0 ec 1,441.63 -
Total 1,689.93
Balance 11.08
SPEcIAL DEVELOPMENT FUND
Balance from 1923 occccccccccsce vse cnanseen 185.81
Contributions 173.00
Total 360.81
Expended—Cold frames 0... 28.79
Expended—Supplies 00. cecccccceencnen 56.45
Total 85.24
Balance 275.57
PUBLICATION FunpD
Balance from 1923 31.35
Contributions 2,650.00
Transferred from Special Bond Fund 650.00
Total 3,331.35
Expended 3,319.37-
Balance 11.98
Lasporatory Funp
Balance from 1928 ccc 228.91
Contributions 125.00
Total = 353.91
Expended—Apparatus and Supplies 333.18 2

Balance

20.73

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INVESTIGATION Funb

Balance from 1923 $ 4,94
Contributions 1,595.00
Refund 7.60

Total $ 1,607.54
Expended—visits to other institutions 1,187.16
Expended—Sundry items ....cccccscce 330.65 ©.

Total 1,517.81

Balance 89.73

Lecture Funp

Balance from 1923 8.82
Contributions 250.00

Sale of lantern Slides occcc cscs 26.80

Total 285.62
Expended—Uecture £608 oocccecscccsecwn 60.00 -
Expended—Lantern slides wesc 11.50 ©
Expended—Printing on. cecccnsncnnnns 204.00 -

Total 275.50

Balance 10.12

3. SpEcIAL INcomME AccoUNTS
Science and Education Fund

Appropriated for Public Instruction 4,500.00
Expended—Salaries 3,170.00
Expended—Investigation on 200.00 §
Expended—Supplies 891.05 §

Total 4,261.05

Balance 2388.95

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Darius O. Mills Fund
Appropriated for painting and draw-

Expended—Salaries $ 1,400.00
Expended—Supplies 21.85 %.
Total 1,421.85
Balance 1,078.18
Henry Iden Fund
Appropriated for Books Ww... 2 _ 800.00
Expended 22.06:
Balance 447.94
Wuliam R. Sands Fund
Appropriated for Publications __ &00.00
Expended 719.79 -
Balance 20.21
Olivia E. and Caroline Phelps Stokes Fund
Appropriated for the Preservation of
Native Plants 200.00
Expended—Colored lantern slides ..... 83.95.
Balance 111.03
Students Research Fund
Appropriated for aid for Students’
Research .. es 700.00
Expended—Scholarships 000. 225.00-
Balance 473.00
David Lydig Fund
Appropriated for Publications 4,000.00
Expended 3.976.33~
Balam ooicececccccccscssssesseesssssssssesasssvesescsssesessee 23 67
Addison Brown Fund
Appropriated for Publication of
Ce DS0) 6: eee 3,000.00
Expended occccmunnseeevtvrvvssneseee 2900.73 °

Balance cc cccccsccsssssesssesessevsnrscsstessseesee 99.25

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John Innes Kane Fund
Appropriated for plants for the
grounds and green houses ...........
Expended

Balance
Maria DeWitt Jesup Fund
Appropriated for the Increase of the
Collections
Expended—Books
Expended—Specimens 00... eeccenenee
Expended—Plants

Total

Balance
Charles Budd Robinson Fund

Appropriated for Aiding Exploration

Expended

Balance
Fanny Bridgham Fund
Appropriated for Books and Binding

Balance
Prancis Lynde Stetson Fund
Appropriated for Lectures and Lan-
tern slides
Exxpended—Leetures 2...ceccccccccccccesses
Expended—Leeture slides 000.0.

TP OUA cette tet Ae ee eh clea

Balance: »nsceu testes 2 see

$ 500.00
489.40

10.60

1,200.00

$724.20

181.53
197.24

1,075.56
118.55

Russell Sage and Margaret Olivia Sage Fund

Labor
Appropriated. ...........
Expended

Balance

1,102.97

97.03

1,600.00
1,243.35

356.65

1,200.00

1,194.11

5.89

22,000.00
21,823.80

176.20

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Fencing and Railings

Appropriated
Expended

Balance

Expended

Balance

Architects and Engineers
Appropriated

Expended

Balance

New Stable Equipment
Appropriated

Expended

Balance

Additional Library Shelving

Appropriated
Expended

Balance

Summary—Sage Fund

Total Appropriated occ
Expended—Salaries and Labor ..........
Expended—Other 1teMs$ occ

Total

Balance

6,000.00
5,311.29

688.71

16,550.00
16,538.30

11.70

2,450.00
1,065.00

1,385.00

2,000.00
1,571.94

428.06

1,000.00,
929.00"

71.00

$38,362.10
8,877.23

50,000.00

47,239.33

4. Generat INcomE AccouNT

Insurance

Appropriated

Expended—Museum specimens and

Library

Expended—Hlevator 0...

Total

Balance

1,891.51 °°
38.50

2,760.67

1,945.00

1,930.01

14.99

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Entertainment of Guests and Meetings

Expended

Balance

Assistance for Treasurer
Appropriated

Expended

Circulars for Membership
Appropriated

Expended

Balance

Temporary Subsidy for ‘‘ Addisoma’’
Appropriated

Expended

Balance

Contingent Fund

Balance

Salaries
Appropriated

Expended ....

Balance

Expenses—Honorary Curator of the
Economic Collections

Supplies and Materials

Appropriated

Eixpended: 22 cigs (laa hae Sete

Balance

1,200.00

1,200.00

845.00
841.28

3.72

800.00
650.00

150.00

1,885.00

1,880.69

4.31

16,000.00
15,974.37

29.63

600.00
600.00

5,225.00

5,216,85

8.15

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Summary—General Income Account

Appropriated
Expended—Salaries oocccccccsccssssssssessnsee $ 15,974.39
Expended—Services and Expenses ..... 1,800.00
Expended—Other items 000 eo 11,216.18
Total
Balance

5. GRAND SUMMARY

CoNTRIBUTIONS, APPROPRIATIONS, ETc.
City MAINTENANCE ACCOUNT

SPEcIAL GARDEN ACCOUNTS
Balance from 1928
Contributions ............

14,595.01
SPECIAL INCOME ACCOUNTS
Appropriated woe. ccc 70,800.00
GENERAL INcomME ACCOUNT
APPROPRIATED oon ioce cesses 29,200.00
Total Garden Funds ..... ...
Grand Total ......... eer
EXPENDITURES
A. Accounts
216,792.98
13,937.12
. 64,944.07
28,990.55
107,871.74

$ 29,200.00

28,990.55

209.45

217,003.80

114,595.01

331,598.81

324,664.72

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B. Distribution

$214,413.10
3,090.00
1,930.01
5,311.29
29,714.47

ee ee 17,006.03

ae a Replachments 26,298.90
Plants, Books and Speci-

mens 8,014.59
Exploration, Investigation

4,377.78

11,626.07

2,882.48
$324,664.72

Respectfully submitted,
. GROESBECK,
E. and OQ, E. Bookkeeper.
New York, January 12, 1925.

DIRECTOR-IN-CHIEF’S ACCOUNT FOR THE YEAR 1924
466 Lexington Avenue

Mr. RoBert W. DE Forest, New York, April 7, 1925
ene Finance Committee, New York Botanical Garden,
30 Broad Street, New York, N. Y.
Dear Sir

This is " certify that I have examined and audited the financial books and
accounts of the Director-in-Chief of The New York Botanical Garden for

In accordance with recent practice, I have not included in the auditing the
examination of the vouchers for City maintenance or construction work paid
for by the City, as such vouchers have been found proper and in order by
the City authorities, and it was decided in 1904 by the then Chairman of the
as Committee that a further examination of them was unnecessary.

membership dues account. These dues are received by the Director-in-Chief
and forwarded by him to the Treasurer, the former keeping a detailed record
f

Respectfully submitted,
A. W. Stow
Special ie

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REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON PATRONS,
FELLOWS AND MEMBERS
FOR THE YEAR 1924

To THE Boarp or Manacers or THE New York Botanicau
ARDEN,

Gentlemen: The number of new members who have
qualified is 177. The number of annual members is now
1,416; life members 123; sustaining members 18.

Of the annual members 53 are now in arrears for dues
for 1924, 25 for dues for 1923 and 1924, 16 for dues for
1922, 1923 and 1924.

Dues have been collected to the amount of $13,945.

One person has qualified as a fellow for life by the pay-
ment of $1,000, and one person as a life member by the
payment of $250. These sums have been transmitted to
the treasurer.

A complete list of all classes of members to date is
herewith submitted.

BENEFACTORS
*Mrs. Fanny Bridgham, *D. O. Mills,
*Hon. Addison Brown, *J. Pierpont Morgan, Sr.,
*Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller,
Columbia University, *Mrs. Russell Sage,
*Hon. Charles P. Daly, *Francis Lynde Stetson,
Daniel Guggenheim, *Cornelius Vanderbilt.
Murry Guggenheim,
Patrons
Oakes Ames, *Mrs. Louisa Combe,
*Miss Catherine A. Bliss, *James M. Constable,
r. N. L. Britton, *William E. Dodge,

*Hon. Addison Brown, James B. Ford,
* Andrew Carnegie, *George J. Gould,

*Mrs. George Whitfield Collord, Edward 8. Harkness,

* Deceased.

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*Mrs. Esther Herrman, *William Rockefeller,
Archer M. Huntington, *William R. Sands,

*Henry Iden, *William C. Schermerhorn,
Mrs. John Innes Kane, *James A. Scryms

*John Stewart Kennedy, Mrs. Finley J. Shepard,
“Mrs. Mary J. Kingsland, *Samuel Sloan,

*J. Pierpont Morgan, Sr., *Mrs. Frederick F. Thompson,
“Oswald Ottendorfer, *W. K. Vanderbilt,

*Lowell M. Palmer, Mrs. Antoinette Eno Wood.

Fe.Lows For Lire

Edward D. Adams, Prof. Frederic 8. Lee,
George F. Baker, Mrs. Frederic 8. Lee,
Miss Elizabeth Billings, Ogden Mills,

Mrs. W. Bayard Cutting, J. P. Morgan,

Dr. Robert W. de Forest, Mrs. Lewis R. Morris,
Cleveland H. Dodge, E. A. Richard,

James B. Ford, Mrs. John A. Roebling,
Daniel Guggenheim, Mortimer L. Schiff,
Murry Guggenheim, Leon Schinasi,

S. R. Guggenheim, Miss Olivia E. Phelps Stokes,
William Halls, Jr. Charles G. Thompson,

Mrs. Stephen V. Harkness, Louis C. Tiffany,
Mrs. William L. Harkness, Tiffany & Company.
Mrs. John Stewart Kennedy,

Lire MEeMBERs /

Edward D. Adams, Samuel R. Betts,

Dr. Felix Adler, William G. Bibb,

Mrs. James Herman Aldrich, Miss Elizabeth Billings,
Dr. 8. T. Armstrong, Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss,
Edward W. C. Arnold, George aoe

Mrs. Hugh D. Auchincloss, G. T. Bon
Dr. John Hendley Barnhart, Mrs. une Reon:

George D. Barron, J. Hull Browning,
Aurel Batonyi, Mrs. Andrew Carnegie,
Gustav Baumann, T. Morris Carnegie,

*Deceased.

Frank R. Chambers,
Hugh J. Chisholm,
Hugh J. Chisholm, Jr.,
George C. Clark,
Banyer Clarkson,

Dr. James B. Clemens,
William F. Cochran,
W. R. Coe,

William Colgate,

Miss Georgette T. A. Collier,

W. E. Conner,

Melville C. Day,
Charles Deering

Mrs. John Ross Delafield,
Maturin L. Delafield,
W. B. Dickerman,
Miss Josephine W. Drexel,
Miss Ethel DuBois,
William A. DuBois,
George E. Dunscombe,
Thomas Dwyer,
George Ehret,
Ambrose K. Ely,

Dr. John F. Erdmann,
Edward J. Farrell,
Marshall Field,

Mrs. H. J. Fisher,
Andrew Fletcher,
Charles R. Flint,
Eugene G. Foster,
Mrs. John French,
Childs Frick,

Mrs. Theodore Kane Gibbs,

Daniel Guggenheim,
Bernard G. Gunther,

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Franklin L. Gunther,
Charles J. Harrah,

Dr. Louis Haupt,

R. Somers Hayes,

Mrs. George Lewis, v
Archer M. oe
Frank D. Hurtt,

James H. ek

Mrs. Columbus O’D. Iselin,
Dr. Walter B. James,
Miss Annie B. Jennings,
Mrs. David J. Kelley,
Nathaniel T. Kidder,

H. R. Kunhardt,

W. B. Kunhardt,
Charles Lanier,

W. V. Lawrence,

Mrs. George Lewis,
Joseph Loth,

William H. Macy, Jr.,
Louis Marshall,

Edgar L. Marston,
William J. Matheson,

C. W. McAlpin, -

Dr. George N. Miller,

A. G. Mills,

Mrs. William F. Milton,
Dr. Lewis R. Morris,
Newbold Morris,
Sigmund Neustadt,

A. Lanfear Norrie,
Gordon Norrie,

George M. Olcott,

Mrs. Charles Tyler Olmstead,
William Church Osborn,
W. H. Perkins,

Curt C. Pfeiffer,
Gustavus A. Pfeiffer,

M. Taylor Pyne,
John J. Riker,
J. C. Rodgers,
Thomas F. Ryan,
Mrs. Herbert L. Satterlee,
Dr. Reginald H. Sayre,
Edward C. nee
Mortimer L. Schi

Mrs. I. Blair ae
George Sherman,
James Shewan,
James Speyer,
Miss Ellen J. Stone,
Albert Tag,

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Paul G. Thebaud,

Charles G. Thompson,

Robert M. Thompson,

William Thorne,

Oswald W. Uhl,

Miss Anna Murray Vail,

F. T. Van Beuren,

gs C. Vanderbilt,
Warburg,

; ohn L Waterbury,

8S. D. Webb,

Dr. W. Seward Webb,

John D. Wing,

Mrs. Anna Woerishoffer.

SUSTAINING MEMBERS

Miss Elizabeth Billings,

Miss Mary T. Bryce,

Mrs. F. J. Godsol,

John Greenough,

Mrs. E. V. C. Hawkes,

O. H. Kahn,

Mrs. Frida Merz Krollpfeiffer,
Edgar L. Marston,

George Grant Mason,

Arthur M. Mitchell,

William Church Osborn,

Wilham H. Porter,

Mrs. James T. Pyle,

J. E. Spingarn,

Dr. Edward H. Squibb,

William R. Stewart,
harles Strauss,

Arthur Hays Sulzburger.

ANNUAL MEMBERS

Dr. Robert Abbe,
Benjamin Abert,

John Fak

C. E.

Mrs. ee L. Adams,
F. B. Adams,

Henry 8S. Adams,
Maurice D. Adams,
Mrs. George B. Agnew,
Carl J. R. Ahrnke,
Perey 8S. Alden,

J. E. Aldred,

Mrs. Winthrop W. Aldrich,
s. W. H. Aldridge,

Sir Douglas Alexander, Bart.

Mrs. Frederick Allen,

James F. Allen,

Philip Allen,

Mrs. 8. W. Allerton,

Dr. C. Ludwig Ambos,

Mrs. O. P. Amend,

Mrs. Copley Amory,

P. Chauncey Anderson,

J. M. Andreini,

Miss Charlotte L. Andrews,
D. Ansbacher,

Mrs. J ohn F. Archbold,
Mrs. George A. Archer,
Francis J. Arend,

Reuben Arkush,

Mrs. H. O. Armour,

Benjamin Walworth Arnold,

Dr. William Aronstein,
B. M ch,
Mrs. M. Ascher,

John Aspegren,

Dr. John Aspell,

Mrs. John T. Atterbury,
Mrs. E. 8. Auchincloss,
Mrs. E. 8. Auchincloss, Jr.
John W. Auchincloss,
Chellis A. Austin,

Ledyard Avery,

Charles F. Ayer,

Frank L. Babbott,

Jules 8. Bache,

Charles Baird,

Robert B. Baird,

Miss Charlotte S. Baker,
George F. Baker,

Stephen Baker,

Albert H. Baldwin,

A. T. Baldwin,

Frederick H. Baldwin,
George V. N. Baldwin, Jr.,
William D. Baldwin,
Ancell H. Ball,

Edward L. Ballard,

Louis Bamberger,

Mrs. Thomas H. Barber,

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Mrs. James L. Barclay,
Percival M. Barker,
Mrs. John Hampton Barnes,
William M. Barnum,
Miss Mary F’. Bartlett,
Mrs. H. G. Bartol,
Mrs. Martha Battle,
Felice Bava,
Mrs. L. P. Bayne,
Jeremiah Beall,
J D. Beals,
Lewis Bechtold,
Frank Begrisch, Jr.
Mrs. A. Frederick Behre,
Dr. Otto F. Behrend,
Frank N. Bell,
Louis V. Bell,
William B. Bell,

eller,
August Belmont,
Alex. Benecke,
Mrs. W. W. Benjamin,
J. Philip Benkard,
Bruno Benziger,
Mrs. Charles F. Berger,
E. R. T. Berggren,
Dr. Alice R. Bernheim,
Isaac J. Bernheim,
Charles L. Bernheimer,
Miss Rosie Bernheimer,
Philip Berolzheimer,
Edward J. Berwind,
George N. Best,
Eugene P. Bicknell,

Samuel H. Bijur,

Raymond Bill,

C. K. G. Billings,
Cecil Billington,

Mrs. William H. Birchall,
Mrs. Charles E. Birge,
James C. Bishop,
George H. Bissinger,
Mrs. Robert C. Black,
Frederick 8. Blackall,
H. C. Blackiston,

Mrs. Dexter Blagden,
Mrs. Emmons Blaine,
Mrs. C. Ledyard Blair,
J. Insley Blair,
Isidore Blauner,

C. N. Bliss, Jr.

Samuel Shipley Blood,
Mrs. M. J. Bluen,

Dr. Richard Blum,
Hugo Blumenthal,
Sidney Blumenthal,
Miss R. C. Boardman,
Henry W. Boettger,
Robert Boettger,
Theodore Boettger,
William H. Bolton,
James O. Boone,

Mrs. Sydney C. Borg,
Louis Boury,

Miss Edith G. Bowdoin,
George T. Bowdoin,
George P. Bowman,
John Hall Bowman,
John McE. Bowman,
Miss Mabel Boyd,

Mrs. Jennie M. Breitenbach,

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Mrs. E. N. Breitung,
George P. Brett,
Edward R. Brevoort,
Mrs. Benjamin Brewster,
George S. Brewster,
Hans V. Briesen,

John R. Brinley,

Mrs. Willard C. Brinton,
Jno. I. D. Bristol,

Miss H. Louise Britton,
Richard H. Britton,

Dr. Edward B. Bronson,
Bronx Hay & Grain Co.,
Mrs. H. D. Brookman,
Ernest C. Brower,

Miss Aneita D. Brown,
Mrs. Archer Brown,
Charles Hilton Brown,
Dickson Q. Brown,
Edwin H. Brown,
Franklin Q. Brown,
Mrs. Franklin Q. Brown,
Mrs. George McKesson Brown,
Mrs. Harold Brown,

M. Bayard Brown,

Mrs. Thatcher M. Brown,
Vernon C. Brown,

Mrs. J. Hull Browning,
M. Brukenfeld,

Charles E. Bryant,

Miss Emily Buch,

Miss Anna J. Buechner,
Mrs. Jonathan Bulkley,
Dr. L. Dunean Bulkley,
Dr. Edward 8S. Burgess,
Louis Burk,

Thomas Burkhard,

E. R. Burnett,

Algernon T. Burr,

Charles 8. Butler,

Miss Emily O. Butler,

H. A. Caesar,

James P. Cahen,

E. T. Caldwell,

Prof. Otis W. Caldwell,
Miss Emma W. Calkins,
W. BR. Callender,

Henry L. Calman,

H. H. Cammann,

Henry L. Cammann,

Mrs. Agnes D. Camp,

Mrs. John Campbell,

Mrs. Robert James Campbell,
Henry B. Cannon,

H. W. Cannon,

Mrs. Charles F. Cantine,
Harry Caplin,

Mrs. Lister Carlisle,
Arthur L. Carns,

Mrs. Ernest T. Carter,

S. C. Cary,

Dr. Louis Casamajor,
George B. Case,

Miss Marian Roby Case,
Alvin C. Cass,

Frank J. Cassidy,

Miss Jennie R. Catheart,
Robert M. Catts,

Norman Wilmer Chandler,
Robert W. Chanler,

Mrs. Winthrop Chanler,
Miss Cornelia Van A. Chapin
Miss Maria Bowen Chapin,

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John Jay Chapman,
Miss Jessie Chase,

José Edward Chaves,
H. Durant Cheever,
Mrs. George L. Cheney,
Miss Mary Cheney,
Paul H. Cheney,
George E. Chisholm,
B. Ogden Chisolm,
Mrs. Joseph H. Choate,
Miss Mabel Choate,
Mrs. Helen L. Chubb,
Perey Chubb,

Charles T. Church,
Richard N. L. Church,
Church of our Lady of Mercy,
John Claflin,

Mrs. Edward H. Clark,
F. Ambrose Clark,

Miss E. Mabel Clark,
Mrs. George Halford Clark,
W. A. Clark,

William Clark,

E. A. 8S. Clarke,

Lewis L. Clarke,

Albert Clayburgh,

G. D. Cochran,

Miss Mary T. Cockcroft,
C. A. Coffin,

Edmund Coffin,
William Edward Coffin,
E. W. Coggeshall,

H. Z. Cohen,

William N, Cohen,
William W. Cohen,

J. L. Coker,

Mrs. Rufus Cole,
Charles B. Colebrook,

C. Philip Coleman,

Mrs. Russell Colgate,
William Colgate,

Barron G. Collier,

Mrs. Richard C. Colt,
Mrs. Barnes Compton,
Miss Mary Compton,
Martin Conboy,

T. G. Condon,

Hermann Conheim,
Joseph Conners,

Mrs. E. C. Converse,

J. N. Conyngham,

Dr. Robert A. Cooke,
Arthur N. Cooley,

James Bliss Coombs,
Marin LeBrun Cooper,
Mrs. Marin LeBrun Cooper,
Miss Louise I. Corell,

H. ©. Cornwall,

J. George Costello,

Mrs. Charles Henry Coster,
Mrs. Clarkson Cowl,

J. Howard Cowperthwait,
Miss Louise G. Crabbe,
Miss Lily C. Cram,
Charles R. Crane,
George F’. Crane,

Mrs. Jonathan H. Crane,
William Crawford,

Miss Mary C. Crimmins,
Mrs. Thomas Crimmins,

Rev. W. T. Crocker,
Dr. William Crocker,
James W. Cromwell,
Miss Mary R. Cross,

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Mrs. R. J. Cross,
W. Redmond Cross,
W. D. Crouch,
Mrs. Joseph F. Cullman,
Mrs. E. B. Currier,
F. Kingsbury Curtis,

. A. Cushman,
R. Fulton Cutting,
Miss Eleanor De Graff Cuyler,
Jean de Saint Cyr,
Mrs. Chester Dale,
Frederic A. Dallett,
Mrs. Ira Davenport,
DeWitt A. Davidson,
J. Clarence Davies,
R. C. Davis,
Mrs. Thomas B. Davis,
Alvah Davison,

rs. Henry P. Davison,
Clarence 8S. Day,
Henry Dazien,
Henry L. de Forest,
Dr. Robert W. de Forest,
Mrs. Robert W. de Forest,
John F. Degener, Jr.,
Mrs. Carl de Gersdorff,
Mrs. Carlos de Heredia,
Lyman Delano,
Moreau Delano,
William Adams Delano,
William C. DeLanoy,
Countess de Laugier- Villars,
Edwin H. Denby,
John B. Dennis,
Rev. H. M. Denslow,
Wilham P. Deppe,
Julian F. Detmer,
Lee Deutsch,

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Miss Harriet N. Devotion,
William G. De Witt,

J. Henry Dick,

George H. Diehl,

Charles F. Dieterich,

H. O. Dill,

Miss Mary A. Dill,

Dr. Wiliam E., Diller,
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Miss Gertrude Dodd,
Cleveland H. Dodge,

Mrs. Cleveland H. Dodge,
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Edward I. Doheny,

Gayer G. Dominick,

L. W. Dommerich,

Otto L. Dommerich,
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AIrs. Ruger Donoho,
Charles Doscher,

Henry Doscher,

Mrs. Frank Nelson Doubleday,
Miss Elizabeth Douglas,
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Walter Douglas,

Joseph Dowd,

W. E. Dowd, Jr.,
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Tracy Dows,

Mrs. B. F. Drakenfeld,

J. R. Drexel,

S. F. Dribben,

Isaac W. Drummond,
Mrs. Matthew B. DuBois,
F. L. Du Bosque,

Miss Elizabeth B. Dunlap,
H. F. du Pont,

Pierre 8S. du Pont,

Mrs. P. 8. du Pont,

Mrs. T. Coleman du Pont,
William du Pont,

Miss Amy C. Duryee,

E. G. Duvall,

Mrs. Winthrop Dwight,
Joseph N. Early,

Mrs. Frederick H. Eaton,
Henry J. Eckstein,

Mrs. James A. Eddy,
Mrs. Charles N. Edge,
Thomas C. Edmonds,
Mrs. J. 8. Ehrich,

Mrs. Ernest Ehrmann,

Howard Elliott,

John 8. Ellsworth,

Mrs. Walter Emmerich,

Miss Lydia F. Emmet,

Robert Temple Emmett,

Mrs. Arthur B. Emmons,
rbsloh,

Albert J. Erdmann,

Miss Katherine V. Erving,

Henry Esberg,

Louis Ettlinger,

Miss Ellen J. Evans,

Jackson Evans,

S. AL. Evans,

A. W. Evarts,

Mrs. Ernesto Fabbri,

Eberhard Faber,

Harris Fahnestock,

Arthur 8. Fairchild,

Benjamin T. Fairchild,

Charles 8. Fairchild,
Samuel W. Fairchild,
Mrs. De Witt Clinton Falls,
Mrs. Max Farrand,
Mrs. Francis C. Farwell,
Dr. St. George Fechtig,
Leo Feist,
Louis Ferguson,
William C. Ferguson,
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Mrs. T. C, Figgatt,
Frank H. Filley,
Oliver Filley,
Frederick T. Fisher,
Samuel H. Fisher,
Benjamin F. Fitch,
Mrs. Benson Flagg,
Harry Harkness Flagler,
Horace C. Flanigan,
Julius Fleischmann,

red T. Fleitmann,
Harry A. Florsheim,
Edward H. Floyd-Jones,
Julius H. B. Fogg,
James B. A. Fosburgh,
Pell W. Foster,
Theodore Foulk,
Robert L. Fowler, Jr.

Mrs. William Fox,
Joseph 8. Frank,
David J. Frankel,

R. A. Franks,

Miss Jane K. Fraser,
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William A. Fraser,

(69)

Mrs. Leopold Frederick,

Mrs. Frederick Frelinghuysen

Mrs. Childs Frick,
Charles Friedgen,

A. 8S. Frissell,

John W. Frothingham,
John H. Fry,

John H. Fulle,

E. A. Funke,

Eugenio Galban,
Albert Gallatin,

Miss Louise Galle,
Warren A. Gardner,
Francis P. Garvin,
Mrs. Walter Geer,

S. Gernsback,

Fred P. Geyer,

R. W. Gibson,

Prof. William J. Gies,
Mrs. William J. Gies,
R. iffen,

J. Waldron Gillespie,
Mrs. Bernard F. Gimbel,
James E. Gledhill,
John M. Glenn,

Mrs. E. D. Godfrey,
Harold Godwin,

Mrs. Mary R. Goelet,
Dr. 8. Ormond Goldan,
Julius Goldman,

Dr. Alfred N. Goldsmith,
Frederick Goldsmith,
Jonah J. Goldstein,
Abraham lL. Goldstone,
Mrs. M. L. Goldstone,
Philip J. Goodhart,
James C. Goodrich,
Philip L. Goodwin,

Charles A. Gould,
Edwin Gould,
M. K. Goulder,
Mrs. Hugh J. Grant,
Joseph W. Grant,
Miss Eleanor M. Greacen,
Mrs. C. Douglass Green,
Henry E. Gregory,
Mrs. John Gribbel,
Charles E. Griffin,

. V. Griffin,
Miss Margarette E. Griffith,
Miss Susan D. Griffith,
E. Morgan Grinnell,
George Bird Grinnell,
Miss Ethel Grow,
William C. Gruner,
A. M. Guinzburg,
Archibald A. Gulick,
William D. Guthrie,
Miss Edith Haas,
Mrs. Harold W. Hack,
John A. Hadden, Jr.,
Charles W. Halsey,
Mrs. Charles W. Halsey,
William Hamann,
L. Gordon Hamersley,
Miss Elizabeth 8. Hamilton,
Lester A. Hamilton,
Mrs. Morgan Hamilton,
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Lyman P. Hammond,
George F. Handel,
Ferdinand Hansen,
Vivian Harcourt,
Mrs. W. P. Hardenbergh,
Wilham B. Hardin,
J. Montgomery Hare,

(70)

E. S. Harkness,

Mrs. Stephen V. Harkness,
Miss Josephine T. Harriot,
Dr. Allis F. Hascall,
Mrs. Harry G. Haskell,
Joshua A. Hatfield,

Dr. Louis Hauswirth,

T. A. Havemeyer,

J. Woodward Haven,
Carroli Hayes,

Mrs. O. H. Hayes,

Mrs. William Valzah Hayes,
Miss Caroline C. Haynes,
Davis 8S. Hays,

Rowland Hazard,

Mrs. R. G. Hazard,

Mrs. W. R. Hearst,
William W. Heaton,
Charles Hecht,

Job E. Hedges,

David Helier,

Henry Hellman,

Mrs. George A. Helme,
Hancke Hencken,

Charles Henderson,

Mrs. E. C. Henderson,
Harmon W. Hendricks,
Miss Margaret Hendrie,
Philip W. Henry,

Hon. Joseph P. Hennessy,
Mrs. A. Barton Hepburn,
Mrs. Henry 8. Herman,
B. F. Hermann,

Frank J. Hermes,

W. L. Hernstadt,

Samuel A. Herzog,
Arthur M. Hess,

Mrs. Cooper Hewitt,

(71)

H. H. Hewitt,

Mrs. David M. Heyman,
Henry Hicks,

Mrs. James J. Higginson,
George Washington Hill,
Hugh Hill,

Mrs. James Norman Hill,
Mrs. Robert Hill,

Miss Anne Hinchman,
Mrs. Frederic Delano Hitch,
Harold K. Hochschild,
Anton G. Hodenpyl,
Miss Eleanor Hodges,
Richard M. Hoe,

Mrs. Richard March Hoe,
Mrs. Robert Hoe,

Miss Mary U. Hoffman,
Bernhard Hoffmann,
Mrs. Bernhard Hoffmann,
Mrs. Edward Holbrook,
John Swift Holbrook,
Dean Hawley Holden,
George C. Holt,

Charles W. Holton,

A. Holzman,

Elkan Holzman,

Mrs. Elon Huntington Hooker,
Charles H. Hoole,

Mrs. George B. Hopkins,
Ernest Hopkinson,

Louis L. Horch,
Frederick B. House,

C. J. Housman,

Miss Lucy Howe,
Richard F. Howe,

M. D. Howell,

Mrs. Henry E. Howland,
John Sherman Hoyt,

Miss V. 8. Hoyt,

Lewis McB. Hubbard,
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Conrad Hubert,

Mrs. Marjorie V. I. Hudson,
Mrs. Thomas Hunt,
Arthur M. Hunter,
Jeremiah Hunter,

Mrs. H. E. Huntington,
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Miss Margaret C. Hurlbut,
H. D. Hutchins,

Mrs. Edward F. Hutton,
Frank DeK. Huyler,
A. F. Hyde,

Mrs. Clarence M. Hyde,
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Henry St. John Hyde,
A. G. Imhof,

Mrs. F. N. Inglehart,
Edwin W. Inslee,
Adrian Iselin, Jr.,

C. Oliver Iselin,

Miss Georgine Iselin,
Lewis Iselin,

Mrs. John H. Iselin,
Wilham &, Iselin,

Mrs. William E. Iselin,
Miss Flora E. Isham,
Paul A. Isler,

A. C. Israel,

Dr. Leopold Jaches,
Frederick W. Jackson,
Samuel K. Jacobs,

John 8. Jacobus,

A. C. James,

Mrs. Arthur Curtis James,
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E. C. Jameson,

Miss Martha A. Jamison,
Mrs. Alfred Jaretzki,
Alfred W. Jenkins,
William B. Jenkins,
O. G. Jennings,
Walter Jennings,
George 8. Jephson,
Mrs. Bradish Johnson,
Gilbert H. Johnson,
J. Herbert Johnston,
Francis C. Jones,
Rodney Wilcox Jones,
Mrs. Townsend Jones,
Louis M. Josephthal,
Henry M. Kahle,

Mrs. Julie Kahle,

Mrs. Delancey Kane,
Frank E. Karelsen, Jr.
Mrs. F. W. Kavenaugh,
Mrs. Charles pete
Mrs. H. F. Kea

Mrs. Frank ae Keech,
Henry F. Keil,
William W. Kelchner,
Nicholas Kelley,

Mrs. F. R. Kellogg,

Dr. Howard A. Kelly,
Prof. J. F. Kemp,

Mrs. H. Van Resselaer Kennedy,

Mrs. John 8. Kennedy,
Miss Martha M. Kennerly,
David Keppel,

W. M. Kern,

John B. Kerr,

(72)

Mrs. Charles W. Keyes,
Emil L. Kieger,

Van Evrie Kilpatrick,
Darwin P. Kingsley,
Morris Kinney,

Dr. William B. Kirkham,
Mrs. Gustav E. Kissel,
D. Emil Klein,

Mrs. Clark Kling,
Julius Klugman,

Dr. Arnold Knapp,
Roland F. Knoedler,
Alexander Konta,
Lucius T. Koons,

Dr. Samuel J. Kopetsky,
Mrs. Max Kops,

Arthur Korth,

Samuel H. Kress,
Richard G. Krueger,
George F. Kumpf,

Dr. George F. Kunz,

A. H. Kursheedt,

Dr. William 8. Ladd,
Stanley V. La Dow,

Mrs. James L. Laidlaw,
Mrs. Samuel W. Lambert,
Mrs. J. H. Lancashire,
Dr. Samuel H. Lanchner,
Francis G. Landon,

Mrs. Woodbury G. Langdon,

Mrs. Valeria Langeloth,
Aaron Langstadter,

(73)

Mrs. John J. Lapham,
Lewis H. Lapham,
John Burling Lawrence,

Mrs. Frederick R. Lockwood,
Mrs. Luke Vincent Lockwood,
Mrs. William A. Lockwood,

Mrs. Vernona M. Spencer Layng,Miss Emilie O. Long,
M

Henry Goddard Leach,
Mrs. George Leary,

Lederle Antitoxin Lansemones

Prof. Frederic 8. L
Dr. Marguerite T. Lee
Marshall C. Lefferts,

dames M. Lehmaier,

S. M. Lehman,

Miss Maud Aguilar Leland,
Mrs. John C. Leslie,

Dr. L. M. Lesser,

George Levi,

Edmund J. Levine,

B. E. Levy.

Mrs. mane S. Levy,
Adolph Lewisohn,

Miss Alice Lewisohn,

Mrs. Allan Lexow,

Dr. Charles C. Lieb,

E. K. Lincoln,

Mrs. Frederic W. Lincoln,
Henry D. Lindsley,
Arthur H. Lippincott,
Frederick J. Lisman,
Miss Alma lL. Lissberger,
Lucius N. Littauer,
Siegfried Littauer,

Mrs. John R. Livermore,
Miss Anna P. Livingston,
Henry 8. Livingston,
Mrs. Francis G. Lloyd,
Wilton Lloyd-Smith,

Mrs. William C. Lobenstine,

anuel Lopez,
Lord & Burnham Co.,
P. Lorillard, Jr.,
Mrs. A. A. Low,
Ethelbert I. Low,
Mrs. Seth Low,
James B. Lowell,
Mrs. Clarence M. Lowes,
Albert E. Lownes,
Dr. Alzamon Ira Lucas,
C. G. Lueder,
E. L. Lueder,
William M. Lybrand,
J. M. Richardson Lyeth,
Miss Grace G. Lyman,
James B. Mabon,
John F. MacEnulty,
Clarence H. Mackay,
Kenneth K. Mackenzie,
Mrs. Charles F. MacLean,
V. Everit Macy,
F. Robert Mager,
J. H. Maghee,
Dr. M. O. Magid,
Miss Helaine Magnus,
Mrs. Robert Mallory, Jr.,
L. William Malone,
Dr. Morris Manges,
J. G. C. Mantle,
Mrs. H. Edward Manville,
Miss Delia W. Marble,
John Markle,
Mrs. John Markle,
Alfred E. Marling,

Otto Maron,

Mrs. Allan Marquand,
Mrs. Henry Marquand,
John B. Marsh,

R. W. Martin,

Walter R. Marvin,

C. N. Mason,

William J. Matheson,

H. W. Maxwell,

George O. May,

Harry Mayer,

Mrs. R. de L. Mayer,

Dr. D. H. MeAlpin,
George McAneny,

Dr. George C. McBride,
T. T. McCabe,

W. Peck McCaffray,
George V. A. McCloskey,
Henry Forbes McCreery,
Lloyd G. McCrum,

Mrs. Alfred McEwen,
Mrs. John R. MeGinley,
Mrs. Robert T. McGusty,
Edward A. McIlhenny,
Tompkins Mellvaine,

Mrs. Charles W. McKelvey,
Henry P. McKenney,
John A. McKim,

W. A. McLaren,

Mrs. James McLean,
Edward F. McManus,
Mrs. Clarence F. McMurray,
William MeNair,

B. Frank Mebane,

Mrs. T. M. R. Meikleham,
Morton H. Meinhard,
Mrs. 8. Stanwood Mencken,
Mrs. William R. Mercer,

(74)

Miss Marguerita Mergentime,
Henry H. Merriam,

Miss Ella J. Merrifield,
John L. Merrill,

J. J. Merritt,

William F. Meschenmoser,
Herman A. Metz,

Arthur 8. Meyer,

Charles G. Meyer,

Eugene Meyer, IJr.,

Mrs. Albert G. Milbank,
John G. Milburn,

W. W. Miller,

Miss Mary G. Millett,

Mrs. Regina V. G. Millhiser,
M. F. Millikan,

Mrs. Gerrish Milliken,

Dr. Adelaide Mills,

Mrs. Clarence B. Mitchell,
Mrs. John Murray Mitchell,
R. Milton Mitehill, Jr.,
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H. de la Montagne, Jr.,
Carleton Montgomery,
Mrs. H. E. Montgomery,
Robert H. Montgomery,
Barrington Moore,
Benjamin Moore,

Clement Moore,

J. C. Moore,

Miss Katherine T. Moore,
Mrs. Paul Moore,

Watson S. Moore,

Victor Morawetz,

B. Mordecai,

Miss Anne Morgan,

Miss C. L. Morgan,
E. D. Morgan,
Mrs. J. P. Morgan, Jr.,

Mrs. Dave Hennen Morris,
Dwight W. Morrow,

Mrs. John B. Mott,
Frank J. Muhlfeld,
Edwin H. Mulford,

Carl Muller,

John P. Munn.

Frank A. Munsey,

Miss Adeliza Morton Murphy,

G. M. P. Murphy,
Fred A. Muschenheim,
George A. Mussmann,
William 8. Myers,
Mme. Elie Nadelman,
Dr. I. L. Nascher,
Harold Nathan,

(75)

Howard Notman,

Mrs. Frank Brett Noyes,
Miss Dorothy Oak,
Morgan J. O’Brien,
Mrs. Adolph Obrig,
Adolph 8. Ochs,

John Offerman,

Mrs. Ponsonby Ogle,

P. M. Ohmeis,

Miss Catherine Okie,

E. E. Oleott,

Miss Mary Olcott,

Elam Ward Olney,
Robert Olyphant,

John B. O'Reilly,
William C. Orr,

Prof. Henry F. Osborn,
Mrs. William Church Osborn,
Charles K. Ovington,
Homer 8. Pace,

Miss Elizabeth H. Packard,

National Association, Boards ofMrs. Eugene H. Paddock,

Pharmacy,
Mrs. Elsie M. B. Naumberg,
A. G. Nesbitt,
Mrs. Russell H. Nevins,
Miss Edith Newbold,
Frederic R. Newbold,
George D. Nicholas,
Mrs. Acosta Nichols,
William B. Nichols,
Mrs. William G. Nichols,
William H. Nichols,
Mrs. Benjamin Nicoll,
William Nilsson,
Dr. Charles Norris,
Miss Fanny Norris,
George Notman,

Frederick Page Co.,
Mrs. Augustus G. Paine,
Mrs. John W. Paris,
Henry Parish,

Mrs. Hobart J. Park,
Junius Parker,

Mrs. Willard Parker, Jr.,
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Charles W. Parsons,
Mrs. Edgerton Parsons,
Miss Gertrude Parsons,
Herbert Parsons,

Mrs. Joseph Parsons,
Mrs. J. Graham Parsons,
Miss Katherine de B. Parsons,
Miss Mary Parsons,

W. U. Parsons,

T. H. Hoge Patterson,

Rufus L. Patterson,

Mrs. Foster Paul,

J. R. Paull,

Mrs. Horace E. Payson,

Mrs. Charles A. Peacock,

Mrs. Frederick Pearson,

Charles E. Peck,

Dr. Charles H. Peck,

William Halsey Peck,

Mrs. Wheeler H. Peckham,

Dr. James Pedersen,

Mrs. Sarah G. T. Pell,

B. Henry Pelzer,

Miss Isabelle Pendleton,

Edmund Penfold,

J. C. Penney Foundation,

Comtesse de Périgny,

Miss Hattie W. Perkins,
F. A. C. Perrine,

W. R. Peters,

Walter Peterson,

Carl Schurz Petrasch,

Mrs. William C. Peyton,

Arthur Pforzheimer,

Carl H. Pforzheimer,

Walter Pforzheimer,

Michael F. Phelan,

Mason M. Phelps,

Mrs. Sheffield Phelps,

Henry Phipps,

Lloyd Phoenix,

Henry Clay Pierce,

Winslow S. Pierce,

Mrs. R. Stuyvesant Pierrepont,

J. Fred Pierson,
Mrs. J. O. H. Pitney,

(76)

Mrs. Charles Howard Platt,
Mrs. Frank H. Platt,

Alfred F. Poggenburg,
Rudolph Pokorny,

Miss R. A. Polhemus,
Frank L. Polk,

Miss Florence L. Pond,
Charles Lane Poor,

E oor,

Mrs. James Harper Poor,
James E. Pope,

Mrs. William C. Popper,
Alexander J. Porter,
Mrs. Frank B. Porter, Jr.,
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Abram 8S. Post,

Miss Blanche Potter,
Mrs. Frank H. Potter,
John H. Powrie,

Rev. Dr. William Prall,
Mrs. C. H. Pratt,

Mrs. Herbert Lee Pratt,
John Pratt,

John T. Pratt,

Mrs. L. B. Preston,
Edgar 8. Pretzfeld,
Mrs. E. F. Price,

Julius Prince,

H. B. Prindle,

R. L. Pritchard,

Elias W. Pulaski,

Miss Eva C. Putney,
Robert Pyle,

Percy R. Pyne,

Charles F. Quincy,

I, A. Rabinow,

Samuel Raisler,

8. E. Ramsdell,

Staniey Ranger,
William T. Rasmus,

G. B. Raymond,

H. E. Raymond,

Mrs. Henry R. Rea,
Newbury Frost Read,
Mrs. William A. Read,
Robert C. Ream,

Mrs. Louis Reckford,
Miss Emily Redmond,
Henry H. Reed,

Mrs. Augusta Bliss Reese
C. Edward Reid,

John Reid,

Franklin Remington,
William Rennult,
Samuel W. Reyburn,
Mrs. E. 8. Reynal,

Mrs. H. Newell Reynolds,
Thomas A. Reynolds,
Miss N. Rhoades,

Miss Elvine Richard,
Osear L. Richard,

Miss Edith G. Richards,
Ellis G. Richards,

BE. O. Richards,

Mrs. Thomas Richardson,
Isaac Ricklin,

Frederick Rider,

Mrs. Robert Ridgway,
Dr. Abraham Rieger,
Dr. A. I. Ringer,

G. Barclay Rives,

Dr. William C. Rives,
Miss Emeline Roach,
Mrs. Charles H. Roberts,

(77)

Irving Bruce Roberts,
Miss Jennette Robertson,
Louis J. Robertson,

A. G. Robinson,

Mrs. Douglas Robinson,
Mrs. Edward Robinson,
Mrs. Monroe D. Robinson,

Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

Percy A. Rockefeller,
Nash Rockwood,

John Roger,

Hubert E. Rogers,

A. J. Rolle,

W. Emlen Roosevelt,
Mrs. W. Emlen Roosevelt,
Elihu Root,

Miss Rosalie Rosenberg,
Henry C. Rass,

Peter W. Rouss,

C. H. Ruddock,

Louis Ruhl,

Justus Ruperti,

Jacob Ruppert,
Frederick K. Rupprecht,
Miss M. L. Russell,
John Barry Ryan,

Mrs. Henry W. Sackett,
Reuben Sadowsky,
Mrs. T. Shaw Safe,
Mrs. Walter J. Salmon,
Charles E. Sampson,
Mrs. Ralph Samuel,
Mitchell Samuels,

Philip C. Samuels,

H. Sanhagen,

F. A. Sarg,

Miss G. W. Sargent,

Emilie L. Sarter,

Herbert L. Satterlee,

Mrs. Herbert L. Satterlee,
Mrs. Thomas E. Satterthwaite,
Mrs. Theodore Sattler,

Oliver

John Scheepers,

Anton Schefer,

O. Boto Schellberg,

Mrs. H. M. Schieffelin,
Dr. William J. Schieffelin,
Charles A. Schieren,
Gustave H. Schiff,

Max Schling, Inc.,

Miss Jane E. Schmelzel,
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Armand Schmoll,

D. Schnakenberg,
Berthold Schnee,

Harry Schneider,
Henrich Schniewind, Jr.,

Mrs. Anthony Schulte,
Richard Schuster,

Mrs. C. Albert Schwab,
C. M. Schwab,

Miss Emily Schwab,
M. Charles Schweinert,
Miss Marion Scofield,
Walter Scott,

(78)

Miss Grace Scoville,
Herbert Scoville,
Robert Scoville,

Mrs. Arthur H. Scribner,
Edward M. Seudder,
Hewlett Scudder,

Mrs. Joseph H. Seaman,
Alonzo B. See,

Prof. Edwin R. A. Seligman,
Mrs. Isaac N. Seligman,
Jefferson Seligman,
Mrs. Norrie Sellar,
Mrs. Charles H. Senff,
Frederick W. Senff,
Alfred Seton,

Frank G. Shattuck,
Mrs. William F. Sheehan,
Dr. William H. Sheldon,
Finley J. Shepard,
David Shiman,

George W. Short,
Frank R. Shull,

Hiram W. Sibley,

Mrs. J. Siegel,

Samuel M. Siegman,
Benjamin F. Simmons,
Charles H. Simmons,
H. L. Simmons,

H. L. Simmons,

Alfred L. Simon,
Franklin Simon,
Horace E. Simon,
Robert E. Simon,
Theodore E. Simon,
Mrs. Roswell Skeel, Jr.,
Francis Louis Slade,
Ralph E. Slaven,
Benson B. Sloan,

(79)

Samuel Sloan,

Thomas W. Slocum,
Thomas Smidt,

Daniel Smiley,

Mrs. Charles Herbert Smith,
Mrs. Charles Stewart Smith,
Charles R. Smith,

E. C. Smith,

Miss Fanny A. Smith,
James B. Smith,

J. Milton Smith,

Dr. Nelson Smith,

Pierre J. Smith,

Mrs. R. Penn Smith, Jr.,
B. E. Smythe,

Frederick Snare,

E. G. Snow,

Frederic A. Soldwedel,
Phineas Sondheim,
William M. Spackman,
Mrs. H. B. Spalding,
Mrs. Edward W. Sparrow,
Mrs. Joseph McK. Speer,
K. B. Spencer,

Mrs. Gino C. Speranza,
Mrs. B. G. Spiegelberg,

A. T. Stanley,

Howard W. Starr,

E. Vail Stebbins,

Mrs. J. Rich Steers,

Mrs. Mary P. Eno Steffanson,
Louis Steinam,

William H. Steinkamp,
Fred T. Steinway,
William R. Steinway,
Olin J. Stephens,
Roderick Stephens,
Benjamin Stern,

Sereno Stetson,
Edward R. Stettinius,
Mrs. Byam K. Stevens,
Clarence 8. Stevens,
Frederic W. Stevens,
Lispenard Stewart,
Chauncy Stillman,

C. C. Stillman,

Miss Clara F. Stillman,
Ralph George Stoddard,
Alfred W. Stone,

Mrs. Charles H. Stout,
Mrs. Willard Straight,
H. Grant Straus,

Mrs. Nathan Straus, Jr.
Roger W. Straus,
Albert Strauss,

Mrs. Daisy Strauss,
Frederick Strauss,
Martin Strauss,
Samuel Strauss,
Wilham H. Strawn,
Dr. George T. Strodl,
Mrs. Gustaf Stromberg,
Benjamin Strong, Jr.,
John R. Strong,

Nat. C. Strong,
Richard A. Strong,
Mrs. Theron G. Strong,
Joseph Stroock,

Louis 8. Stroock,
Duncan Struthers,
Francis Lee Stuart,
Frank K. Sturgis,
Mrs. Paul Sturtevant,
Mrs. James Sullivan,
Frank M. Swacker,
Harry Swan,

Mrs. J. Andrews Swan,
Maurice Switzer,

Miss Mary Taber,
Henry W. Taft,

Mrs. E. T. H. Talmage,
Charles G. Taylor,
Henry R. Taylor,

Dr. Richard A. Taylor,

W. A. Taylor
Miss Genmide M. Telke,
errell,

Ae John T. Terry,

rs. Thomas Thacher,

s. T. D. Thacher,

rs. Bayard Thayer,

H. B. Thayer,

E. Thiele,

Mrs. H. M. Thomas,
Mrs. Hector W. Thomas,
Mrs. Howard L. Thomas,
Percival Thomas,

L. 8. Thompson,
William B. Thompson,
Dr. W. Gilman Thompson,
Mrs. Edwin Thorne,
Samuel Thorne,

Sherman Thursby,

Louis C. Tiffany,

Henry N. Tifft,

Dr. Walter Timme,

R. H. Timmermann,
James Timpson,

Mrs. Norman E. Titus,
Rev. E. P. Tivnan, 8S. J.,
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J. Kennedy Tod,

Edward R. Tolfree,
Nesib Trabulsi,

eee

(80)

W. C. Trage

Mrs. John B. ae

John Trounstine,

E. Kellogg Trowbridge,
Carll Tucker,

Paul Tuckerman,

Edward Turnbull,

George E. Turnure,

Mrs. Mary A. Tuttle,

Mrs. Charles H. Tweed,

Mrs. Alice B. Tweedy,
Lucien H. Tyng,

August Uhl,

Mrs. Walter M. Underhill,
Mrs. Henry C. Valentine,
Miss Marguerite E. Valentine,
James J. Van Alen,
Augustus Van Cortlandt,
Francis 8. van der Veer,
Barend van Gerbig,

John B. Van Haelen,

Mrs. Stephen G. Van Hoesen,
Miss Anne H. Van Ingen,
Miss Louise Van Ingen,
Dr. Philip Van Ingen,

Mrs. Warner M. Van Norden,
Mrs. E. van Raalte,

Mrs. Louisa Van Wezel,

Mrs. Wilbur Linwood Varian,
Mrs. James M. Varnum,
Mrs. A. C. Veatch,

Thomas F. Vietor,

Alfonso P. Villa,

G. B. Vitelli,

Ludwig Vogelstein,

Mrs. Owen M. Voight,

Mrs. Anna M. von Zedlitz,
Dr. Antonie P. Voislawsky,

Frederick K. Vreeland,
Montgomery Waddell,

rs. W. Austin Wadsworth,

Dr. A. F. Wahl,

Mrs. J. Howard Wainwright,

Justus I. Wakelee,
Mrs. Joseph Walker, Jr.,
Stuart Walker,

William I. Walker,

Mrs. W. K. Wallbridge,
Alfred Wallerstein,

Leo Wallerstein,

Dr. Max Wallerstein,
William I. Walter,
Artemus Ward,

A. L. D. Warner,

Mrs. John I. Waterbury,
C. W. Watson,

Harry Wearne,

Mrs. E. H. Weatherbee,
Mrs. Vv. Webb,

Mrs. W. Seward Webb,
Mrs. Orlando F. Weber,
Mrs. Alden H. Weed,
Miss Alice D. Weekes,
Dr. Eugene Wehmeyer,
George A. Weigel,
Charles H. Weigle,

Mrs. Harriet Weil,

Mrs. Walter L. Weil,
Mrs. Charles Weiss,

S. J. Weiss,

Mrs. Samuel W. Weiss,
Mrs. John Wells,

Oliver J. Wells,
William Y. Wemple,
Miss Edith Wetmore,

Mrs. Frederick 8. Wheeler,

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Mrs. George C. Wheeler,
Dr. Wm. E. Wheelock,
Miss Caroline White,
Mrs. E. Lawrence White,
Harold T. White

Mrs. William T. ’ White,
Clarence Whitman,
Mrs. Arnold Whitridge,
Miss Joan Whitridge,
Howard Whittemore,
F. B. Wiborg,
Mrs. D. O. Wickham,
Walter R. Wilder,
Ernest J. Wile,
Dr. Ira 8. Wile,
Irwin Wile,
C. Robert Wilhelm,
Elmore A. Willets,
J. Macy Willets,
Mrs. Percy H. Williams,
Richard H. Williams,
William H. Williams,
W. P. Willis,
James R. Williston,
Mrs. L. K. Wilmerding,
Frank D. Wilsey,
Dr. Margaret B. Wilson,

Charles A. Wimpfheimer,
Harold Wingate,
Bronson Winthrop,
Grenville L. Winthrop,
Mrs. Robert Winthrop,
John C. Wister,

Mrs. Frank 8. eee
Joseph Wittm

Dr. William i. Wonlont

Fred R. Wolff,

Lewis S. Wolff,

M. Wolff,

Mrs. T. Wolfson,

Ernest Wolwitz,

Mrs. William H. Woodin,
Park M. Woolley,

Mrs. I. Maurice Wormser,
Martin Wortmann,

Miss Julia Wray,

Mrs. J. Hood Wright,
Richardson Wright,
Gustave A. Wuefel,

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Dr. Peter B. Wyckoff,
Mrs. Irene 8. Wyle,
Mrs. A. Murray Young,
Owen D. Young,

Mrs. Cornelius A. Zabriskie,
George A. Zabriskie,
Henry C. Zaro,

Charles H. Zehnder,
Miss Jessie Ziegler,
Albert G. Zimmermann,
August Zinsser,
Charles Zoller,

Henry Zuckerman.

MEMBERS OF THE ADVISORY COUNCIL

Mrs. Robert Bacon,
Miss Elizabeth Billings,

Mrs. Walter Jennings,
Mrs. Bradish Johnson,
Mrs. Delancey Kane,

Mrs. Gustav E. Kissel,
Mrs. Frederic 8S. Lee,
Mrs. William A. Lockwood,
Mrs. A. A. Low,

Mrs. V. Everit Macy,

Mrs. Pierre Mah,

Mrs. Henry Marquand,
Mrs. Wheeler H. Peckham,
irs. George W. Perkins,
Mrs. Harold I. Pratt,

Mrs. Wm. Kelly Prentice,
Mrs. Wiliam A. Read,
Mrs. James Roosevelt,

Mrs. Arthur B. Scribner,
Mrs. Benson B. Sloan,
Mrs. Samuel Sloan,

Mrs. Theron G. Strong,
Mrs. Edw. T. H. Talmage,
Mrs. Henry O. Taylor,
Mrs. John T. Terry,

Mrs. W. Gilman Thompson,
Mrs. George Cabot Ward,
Mrs. Wiliam H. Woodin,

Honorary MEMBERS OF THE ADVISORY CouNcIL

Mrs. E. Henry Harriman,
Mrs. John I. Kane,

Mrs. James A. Scerymser,
Miss Olivia E. P. Stokes.

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REPORT OF THE TREASURER

New York, Marcu 10, 1925

To THE Boarp oF MaNnacers oF THE New YorK BOTANICAL
ARDEN

Gentlemen: I beg to submit herewith the Treasurer’s Annual
Report for the year 1924, showing Receipts and Disbursements
from January 1st to December 31st, together with a statement
of the Ledger Balances as of December 31st, 1924.

Respectfully,
JoHN L, MERRILL,
Treasurer

STATEMENT OF RECEIPTS AND DISBURSEMENTS
January Ist, to December 31st, 1924

Cash on Hand January Ist, 1924 $ 29,494.19
Receipts
The Endowment and Development Fund. $ 3,000.00
Frances Griseom Parsons Fund 2,000.00
Sage Fund, 4th ee
Cash eves dete atic 12,280.00
Stok cient hee 27,720.00
,000.00
Less treated as Income can 00
———— $29,600.00
Amer. Tel. & Tel. Rights (Sold)..... 1,639.06
Genl. Electric Special Stock 63 shs. 630.00
Mo. Kansas & Texas (Sold)............ 3,208.00
———__ 35,077.06
Life Membership Fee 50.00
Fellow. 1,000.00
Income of Special Trust Funds .......... 2,020.00
Income of General Investments ............. 26,067.50
Income of Sage Investments .......... 38,131.60
Income of Sage Investments (part of
legacy treated as income) .........-. 10,400.00 ;
———_ 76,619.10 2 ow”
General Income en 14,579.84 = - me
Special Garden Aceounts xs 13,724.02- ©
Special Income Accounts .. > 6,071.72
ity Maintenance ....... 154,574.42
City Maintenance ...... 47,331.49

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Director-in-Chief, Working Fund
Items paid out of Fund and not re-
imbursed by the Treasurer and
the City

Garden Accounts —........_....._ 17,023.61
City Maintenance ——..._... . 12,636.97
29,660.58
Unaudited Vouchers ~~...
Disbursements
Loan Paid $25,000.00
Interest on Loan 770.83
Special Trust Funds 2,020.00
Investments, General
Purchased 100 baa American Tobacco... 10,227.50
Investments, Sa
720.00
630.00
73.43
146.87
5
137,25

Vouchers Paid through Director for expenses
of 1923

General Income Accounts _.-._. 4,050.67
Special Garden Accounts ........... 7,186.00
Special Income Accounts... ... 12,929.16
City Maintenance 2. 2,023.86

General Income Accounts . . 0.0... 29,234.54
Special Garden Recounts uh tack,
Special Income Accounts . . o
City Maintenance .- 165,187.53

300,814.79

City Maintenance
Payments made by City once eee ween 47,331.49
Undeposited Coupon Interest .__..

383,888.23
10,146.37

$423,528.79

414,872.66
160.00

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Cash on Hand
ew York Trust Co. ...... $5,389.99
J.P. Morgan & Co. ......... s 106.14
5,496.13
— Account
J. P. Morgan & Co... 3,000.00
- 8,496.13

$423,528.79

Ledger Balances as of December 81, 1924

Debit Credit
Charles P. Daly Trust Fund ......... $19,636.34
Special Trust Fund en . 17,000.00
Addison Brown Fund WW. 21,850.00
sale sie for Science and
Educa, 91,836.90
Maria sate Jesup Fund ......... 25,000.00
ohn Innes Kane Fund... 10,000.00
Stokes Fun 3,000.00
Students’ Research Fund wc = 4,488.00
Endowment & Development Fund 3,000.00
Fanny Bridgham Fund ............... 80,000.00
Endowment Fund —~.-.W-n--- - 273,010.00
enry Iden Fund ~~. — 10,000.00
David Lydig Fund —.W02.-. - 34,337.86
Darius Ogden Mills Fund -~........ 50,000.00
Frances Griscom Parsons Fund ..... 2,000.00
Charles Budd Robinson Fund......... 755
Sage Fund ; 667,555.69
Wn. R. Sands Fund ...... 10,000.00
Francis Lynde Stetson Fund......... 25,000.00
$1,298 ,469.83
pecial Trust Investments
Special Trust $ 17,000.00
General Investments ee eee 560,716.36
Sage Fund esr a. Sian uieen arse samed 667,718.68
Special Cash Fund
For Endowment and Development Fund... 3,000.00
Special Garden Accounts
Plant Fun 61.68
Exploration Fund 41.04
Special Book Fund 118.95
Museum and Herbarium Fund uw. 11.08
Special Development Fund 0.0.20 275.57

Lecture Fund 10.12

Laboratory Fund acces ecenecenennensennnamenenain 20.73
Investigation Fund ........... 89.73
ublication Fund 11.98
Special Income Accounts
Income of Addison Brown Fund... cee 372.60
956.95
266.95
118.48
183.34
729.36
508.20
273.84
3,850.04
Income of Darius Ogden Mills an d. 681.87
Income of Charles Budd Robinson Memonal
Fund 117.64
Income of Wm. B. Sands Fund... ae 186.22
Income of Sage Fund 14,917.65
Income of Francis Lynde Stetson Fund.............. 307.02
Income of Frances Griscom Parsons Fund .... 59.02
Unaudited Vouchers wooo ce ee ote este oe 10,146.37
General Income oe ese eee: 14,746.63
Reserve Fund .. 8,558.75
MAAntenamce nce secre vere oe oe tesetennt nce 12,636.97
Undeposited Coupon Intere 160.00
Director-in-Chief, Working Fund . sueue 339.42
Cash Balance, December 31st, 1924 eee: : 5,496.13

$1,311,554.60 $1,311,554.60

TREASURER ’S ACCOUNT FOR THE YEAR 1924
466 Lexington Avenue
New York, April 7, 1925
Mr. RoBERT W. DE FOREST,

Chairman, Finance Committee, New = Botanical Garden,
30 Broad Street, New York, N.
Dear . :

This is to aces that I have, by direction of the Board of Managers, ex-
amined the books and accounts of the Treasurer of The New York Botanical
Garden for the year nineteen hundred and twenty-four (1924), together with
their proper vouchers, and that I find the balance sheet and the Treasurer’s
statement of receipts and disbursements attached hereto to be correc

The various investment securities have also been verified a aeeonnted
for, and I certify that the statement of the same reported in the balance
sheet of eed 31st, 1924, is correct.

Respectfully submitted,
W. STONE,
Special Auditor

VOL. 13 No. 47

BULLETIN
THE NEW YORK
BOTANICAL GARDEN

ISSUED JUNE 3, 1926

CONTENTS

REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT AND CHAIRMAN OF THE EXECU-
TIVE COMMITTEE

Report of the Secretary and Director-in-Chief for the

Year 1925
Report a iis Head Curator of the Museums and
Herbar 109
Report of the Head Gardener 115
Report of the Director of the Laboratories WW... 120
Report of the Bibliographer 124
Report of the Librarian 125
Report : the Superintendent of Buildings and
roun 127
Report of the Honorary Curator of the Economic
Collections
Report of the Paleobotanist 134
Report of the Honorary Curator of Mosses oo cscnnne 156

Report of the Honorary Custodian of the Local Her-
barium 1

Report of the Chairman of the Scientifie Directors ........... 140
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS 000 eee cee reve . 142?

REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON Patrons, FELLOWS, AND
MEMBERS FOR THE YEAR 1925 148

BULLETIN

OF

The New York Botanical Garden

Vol. 13 No. 47

REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT AND CHAIRMAN
OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

THe Boarp or Manacers or THe NEw York Boranicau
ARDEN
Gentlemen:

T have the honor to submit a report on some of the sig-
nificant activities of the Botanical Garden during the
year 1925.

It will be recalled that in November, 1924, the Board
voted to enter upon a campaign to raise the sum of $4,-
160,000 in order to begin the realization of the new plans
for the development of the Garden. A Campaign Com-
mittee was at once appointed and entered upon its task.
Profiting from the experience of other institutions en-
gaged in similar efforts, the Committee decided to seek,
first, special gifts of considerable value from a few indi-
viduals, while preparing the ground for a more general
effort later. Thus inaugurated, the campaign has been
conducted quietly during 1925, and the year ends with
the securing of pledges to the Garden’s funds for carry-
ing out the new plans of approximately $850,000, of which
$250,000 is contingent upon the receipt of the subscrip-
tion of an additional $150,000 by December 31, 1926. An
appreciable proportion of the sum pledged has already
been paid into the Garden’s treasury. The Committee

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feels that this is a gratifying beginning and gives encour-
agement for the ultimate success of its efforts, which with
the Board’s approval will be continued in the coming
year. For the present the sums received have been added
to the Garden’s endowment and have been kept intact,
and it is wise to continue this procedure. With the re-
ceipt of a much larger sum the apportionment of the
whole in relation to the needs of the Garden as a whole
should be undertaken.

It was early realized that, with the past achievements,
the future possibilities, and the financial needs of the
Garden less known than they should be, the task of se-
curing considerable additions to its funds would not be
a brief one. Special stress, therefore, has been laid upon
the education of the public in these matters—through pri-
vate interviews, public addresses, and the press. No op-
portunity has been neglected of making the Garden
favorably known. The press of the City and, indeed, of
the whole country, has weleomed to its columns and cir-
culated widely accounts of the Garden’s activities and
plans for the future, and such accounts have received
much favorable editorial and private comment. The rep-
utation of the institution and the number of its friends
have thus been materially increased, and this will count
to its advantage in many ways, financial and otherwise,
in the future. But the justifiable goal is still far away.
A still larger public should learn of the Garden’s ser--
vices. Especial efforts, too, should be made in the com-
ing year toward enrolling its friends among its members.
The membership list should promptly be doubled, if not
trebled.

In the President’s ‘‘Statement Concerning The New
York Botanical Garden’’ submitted to the Board in 1923
it was stated: ‘‘In its Women’s Auxiliary the Garden
possesses great possibilities for aid which have not been
adequately utilized.”’ During the past year the Auxil-

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lary, under its new name, Advisory Council, has played a
larger part in the Garden’s affairs than ever before. It
has increased its membership and has inaugurated a
series of regular meetings throughout the year. The at-
tendance at its meetings has materially increased. It has
kept in touch with the new plans for the development of
the Garden and has made valuable suggestions thereto.
It has stimulated among the garden clubs in the vicinity
of New York a spirit of interest in and codperation with
the Botanical Garden and has made clear the mutual ad-
vantages of close relationship. The assistance which this
group of influential women can lend to the Garden’s pres-
tige and development in the future is bound to increase
more and more.

“ Tn the ‘“‘Statement”’ of 1923, it was suggested that the
Botanical Garden might well be made serviceable to gar-
den-lovers by constructing various types of model gar-
dens and separate garden features adapted to specific
needs. These have now begun to be a reality. In March,
1925, a friend of the Garden, who wishes to remain anon-
ymous, offered to bear the expense of laying out and
planting at a selected spot within the grounds of the
Botanical Garden ‘‘a small and artistic garden showing
what can be done in this line within a very limited area
and at a very moderate cost as an encouragement and
practical example for flower lovers of moderate means.”’
This offer was gratefully accepted by the Board. The
site selected was just north of the western end of Conser-
vatory Range No. 1, and covered a plot 25 by 50 feet in
area. The planting, following an attractive design, was
installed as soon as was practicable, a considerable
growth took place during the summer, and the value of
the garden as a model of what can be accomplished sim-
ply and tastefully will fully appear during the coming
season. In May, 1925, the same donor further offered
to the Botanical Garden ‘‘a fund of $5,000 to he

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known as ‘The H. H. Memorial,’ the principal and inter-
est of which shall be dedicated by the Board of Managers
primarily to defraying the expenses of a competition,
open to professionals and amateurs, for designs of small
gardens and for the reproduction of the winning designs
in the Botanical Garden during the spring and summer
of 1926 and, as far as the available funds will permit, in
subsequent years. It shall be understood, however, that
the funds may, in the discretion of the Board of Man-
agers, be diverted after 1926 to any other purpose which
they may deem desirable, with the request, however, that
said funds, if so diverted from the primary purpose, be
used for some purpose which will popularize the Botan-
ical Garden.’’ ¢ Following the enthusiastic acceptance of
the gift by this Board, a Committee appointed by the
President arranged the details and made formal an-
nouncement of the proposed competition. After the re-
ceipt of the designs, the final date for which is March
1, 1926, the awards will be made and the planting of
the prize-winning design will be promptly undertaken.
By these two gifts, this friend of the Garden has taken
the initiative in what will without doubt prove to be
a very important feature of the Garden’s usefulness
to the public. In this connection mention should also be
made of the planting of an attractive ornamental border
which was designed by Mrs. Robert C. Hill and the utili-
zation of which was suggested by her fellow-members of
the Advisory Council.

During the past few years the Garden has been increas-
ing its outdoor horticultural exlubits, but at no time have
they reached the extent and magnificence that was
achieved during the summer of 1925. <A series of Flower
Days was established, each of which was marked by the
culmination of an exhibition of a popular flower. These
comprised the following:

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Narcissi 47,000 plants representing 130 varieties
Tulips 60,000 =‘ " 1 -
Irises 3,000 *S “ 1,000“
Peonies 427“ = 166‘
Roses 4,500 “ = 240 <<
Dahlias 850 SS ay 350“
Chrysanthemums 1,000 we “ 140 =“

Many persons codperated in making these exhibits a
success, but especial thanks for their aid should be ex-
tended to Mrs. Wheeler H. Peckham, of the Advisory
Council, who planned the exhibit of narcissi; to Mrs.
Peckham and Mr. John C. Wister, President of the Amer-
ican Iris Society, for the remarkable collection of irises;
and to Dr. Marshall A. Howe, Assistant Director of the
Garden, who has for several years fostered the exhibit of
dahlias. I think it safe to say that no other garden in
this country has offered such an opportunity to see and
study the many varieties of these flowers as has the
Botanical Garden. Every effort should be made in the
future to make these and other flower shows of national
importance, for there is no surer way of winning to the
Botanical Garden the adherence of the large and ever-
growing garden-loving public.

The completion of the Bronx River Parkway, which
debouches into the Botanical Garden at its northern end,
is an event of great importance to the Garden, for both
its advantages and its disadvantages. Its charming drive
for miles along the course of the Bronx River will un-
doubtedly prove one of the most popular routes of travel
between the city and Westchester County. The Botan-
ical Garden presents the largest, most varied, and most
beautiful single feature of this route. The number of its
visitors who come by motor ear will, therefore, be much
increased, and this will contribute in considerable degree
to the Garden’s popularity. But the most of this added
travel will be through-traffic, with the Garden becoming

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merely a convenience for the travelers, whose main ob-
ject will be to reach their destination in the city or coun-
try in the shortest possible time. No one has pointed out
the deleterious character of this invasion of the Garden’s
precincts more forcibly than has Mr. Frederick Law
Olmsted, who says in his ‘‘Report on The New York
Botanical Garden’’:

“‘The suecessive steps in the formation of routes of
automobile travel within and through and near Bronx
Park, largely controlled as they have been by considera-
tions entirely independent of the Botanical Garden, and
the interjection of the Botanical Garden into the area
traversed by or affected by these routes, have resulted in
a situation quite unprecedented, so far as we know, in
any of the important botanical gardens of the wor

“‘Many of these botanical vardens are substantially
self-contained, free from intersecting through-routes of
vehicular travel, and subject to design and management
for botanical garden purposes alone. Most of them, like
Kew, have no roads for nee oa travel within
them at all. The Arnold Arbor . .. has roads open
to the public in the daytime, on rae is completely closed at
night and up to the present time the roads have not been
open to automobiles. In an area the size of The New
York Botanical Garden, we believe that automobile roads
for oo within the area are necessary and desir-
abl t the successive and almost independent
steps in the a een of the main lines of through-
travel for automobiles in this part of the Borough of the
Brons, have placed the Garden in the path of some of the
most important of these lines and thrown upon its roads
a burden of through-traffie which is already a very seri-
ous problem and bids fair to become immensely worse.

‘“The completion of Bronx River Parkway, . . . taken
in a with the prior opening of the Grand Con-

se . opens through the Garden, on roads very ill
ee to the purpose, what j is plainly ‘destined to be one
of the most busily thronged automobile thoroughfares
leading in and out of Manhatta an. Both for the “benefit
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Botanical Garden as such, a radical ,mprovement i in this
situation seems almost imperati ve.’

The menace of the motor car thus threatened by the
completion of the Bronx River Parkway is still further
emphasized by the plans developed at recent conferences
between the Park authorities of the City and the State,
which present a comprehensive park program for the five
boroughs of the City. This plan, if I am correctly in-
formed, deliberately contemplates the area of the Botan-
ical Garden as affording a parkway to connect with the
Bronx River Parkway. A question that has been loom-
ing during the past few years is thus clearly before
the administrative authorities of the Garden: Is the
Botanical Garden to be regarded in the future as pri-
marily a botanical garden, with its own specific problems
and its vast advantages which it offers freely to the peo-
ple; or is it to be regarded as primarily a park and sub-
ject to the same character of development and treatment
as are other city parks? Between a botanical garden as
such and a city park as such there are fundamental dif-
ferences, which cannot be detailed here. But it has been
well said that automobile through-traffic is ‘‘wholly con-
trary to the spirit of the botanical garden,’’ which should
offer ‘‘a sense of quiet safety and remoteness from the
noise and haste of the city.”’

In the resolution adopted by this Board November 20,
1924, which approved the Report of Olmsted Brothers in
principle as a guide for the future treatment of the
grounds of the Garden, it was stipulated that ‘‘there be
reserved for future consideration that part of the Report
which deals with the proposed modifications of the pres-
ent road system.’’ It should now be considered whether
the time has not arrived for a careful study of the new
conditions now presented to the Garden, which were not
dreamed of when the institution was first planned.

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Attention should be called to the new system of finan-
cial accounting which has been established and goes into
effect with the beginning of 1926. This system is in har-
mony with the best and accepted methods of accounting.
It rightly centralizes the details of financial administra-
tion in, and gives greater responsibility and dignity to,
the office of the Treasurer. It should be regarded as one
of the outstanding accomplishments of the year; and, as
the funds and corresponding financial responsibilities of
the Garden increase, its value will be more and more
evident.

Details of the above-mentioned and many other activi-
ties of the Garden during 1925 will appear in the Reports
of the Director-in-Chief and other officers. The year has
been characterized by substantial progress, both along
the long-established lines of activity and especially
toward the goal of the new endeavors. In the light of
dawning achievement the new plans appear more justi-
fiable and more worth the labor of achieving. The Presi-
dent trusts that the members of the Board will recognize,
each more clearly than before, his own individual respon-
sibility and the necessity of his own individual share in
the common effort to make The New York Botanical Gar-
den the outstanding institution of its kind in America.

Respectfully submitted,
Freperic 8. Las,
President, and Chairman of the Executive Committee

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REPORT OF THE SECRETARY AND DIRECTOR-IN-
CHIEF FOR THE YEAR 1925

To tHE Boarp or Managers or THe New York Botanican
GARDEN.

Gentlemen: I have the honor to submit my report for
the year ending January 11, 1926.

All existing plantations have been maintained but the
need for more gardeners, laborers, and keepers has been
increasingly urgent.

Additions and modifications have included the planting
of over 14,000 narcissus bulbs of 46 varieties in part
given by the Holland Bulb Growers’ Association, in part
by Mrs. Wheeler H. Peckham, and in part purchased by
contributions secured by Mrs. Peckham as follows:

Mrs. W. H. Aldridge $ 10.00
Miss HE. Mabel Clark 5.00
100.00

10.00

M 5.00
M. 10.00
M : 10.00
Mrs. Wheeler H. Peckham 120.00
Mrs. Anna 8. Pitt 5.00
Douglaston Garden Club .. ......... .... 10.00
New Canaan Garden Club... uu. 25.00
Riverdale Garden Club 2.00 10.00
The Garden Club of Nyaek.....0. 0.00. 25.00
MP Ota lhc crane teeta. atone $ 345.00

In continued codperation with the American Iris So-
ciety, additions have been made to the iris collection, and
during the summer, the main extensive series of bearded
varieties was completely replanted to a color-scheme de-
signed by Mrs. Peckham, Mr. Sturtevant, and Mr. Wister,

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and the work directed by them; surplus plants were sent
to other parks and gardens. Experimental work has been
done with many native irises collected by Dr. Small in
the southern states, especially Florida.

In the Rose Garden, additions and replacements in-
clude about 1,000 plants of 90 varieties contributed by
Messrs. Bobbink and Atkins. An invitation has been ex-
tended to the American Rose Society to hold its meeting
in June, 1926, at the Garden.

The display of tulips in the spring included about
60,000, planted in the Court of Conservatory Range No. 1,
in 154 varieties. There have been planted this autumn,
partly in this court and partly at the entrance to the Hor-
ticultural Grounds on the Southern Boulevard, nearly as
many bulbs, given in part by the Holland Bulb Growers’
Association and in part by Mr. John Scheepers.

In connection with the ‘‘H. H. Memorial Fund”’ estab-
lished by a gift of $5,000, a model small garden, 52 feet
long, 40 feet wide, was built and planted at the western
end of the Flower Gardens near Conservatory Range No.
1. Income from this fund will be used in 1926, for prizes
for competitive designs for other small gardens, the most
approved design to be reproduced at the eastern end of
these Flower Gardens.

In the Horticultural Grounds west of the Rock Garden,
a new plantation of day-llies was made, comprising 46
kinds bred by Dr. Stout, most of them hybrids new to eul-
tivation. Liles hitherto grown here were transferred to
the Flower Gardens. <A collection of dwarf trees and
shrubs, made up of 52 plants, assembled from several
points in the grounds, and established east of the Rock
Garden and the collections of phloxes and of hardy chrys-
anthemums nearby, were increased. Here a plantation
of late-flowering shrubs has also been established.

Dr. Southwick has actively continued the planting of
the Rock Garden, having essentially completed its con-

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struction. Many rare plants have been grown from seeds
obtained by him from various sources at home and
abroad, and by exchange and coéperation with lovers of
rock gardens, notably with Mr. Clarence Lown, of Pough-
keepsie, and Mrs. Wheeler H. Peckham. He has also in-
creased the plantations of American wild flowers and of
hardy ferns, and, with much assistance from Mr. Perey
Wilson, has increased and improved the plantations in’
the Herbaceous Grounds.

Dr. Howe continued in charge of the Dahlia Collection,
planted near the railroad station, in which some 88 kinds
not hitherto grown by us, were included. Climatic con-
ditions of the season were unfavorable for Dahlia culti-
vation in the eastern states; nevertheless, the Dahlia ex-
hibit, as usual, attracted many visitors.

Additions were made to the Arboretum, the Pinetum,
and the Fruticetum, mainly by trees and shrubs moved in
the spring from the nurseries; these included 80 trees
and 248 shrubs.

Reconstruction of the planting compartments in the
large tank for hardy water-lilies in the Conservatory
Court effected the best display of these plants we have as
yet made, 51 kinds flowering profusely during the sum-
mer, together with 38 kinds of tender ones in the other
tank. All were under the care of Mr. Becker, Foreman
Gardener.

Greenhouse collections have been modified to some ex-
tent by additions and substitutions. At Conservatory
Range No. 1, reglazing roofs and interior painting of
houses 6 and 13 necessitated the rearrangement of parts
of the collections, and rebuilding benches in house 10 re-
quired moving the whole aroid collection temporarily into
other houses and its return and rearrangement.

At Conservatory Range No. 2, the collections of tropical
ferns and of cycads have made noteworthy growth and
are now more elegant and instructive than ever before,

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and parts of the large collections of orchids were rear-
ranged and improved, under the immediate direction of
John Hastings, gardener in charge.

The total number of species and varieties of plants in
the grounds and greenhouses is about 15,700. Mr. Boyn-
ton, Head Gardener, has had charge of this vast collec-
tion, the general outdoor gardening work under Foreman
Finley, the greenhouse work and the water-lily tanks
under Foreman Becker, the Rock Garden and the Her-
baceous Grounds under Dr. Southwick. The botany of
all this collection, however, the care of the herbarium of
cultivated plants, and all recording and labelling has
been accomplished by Mr. Boynton, with but little assis-
tance; this has been possible only through his extremely
broad and accurate knowledge of cultivated plants. His
work should be supplemented or divided, when possible,
first by the appointment of a dendrologist to be put in
charge of all the collections of trees and shrubs, to en-
able us to take our proper part in the rapidly increasing
science of dendrology.

The tar and gravel road-surfaces hitherto in use on
garden driveways, constructed and maintained by the De-
partment of Parks, have long been expensive to keep in
repair and deleterious to lawn-borders. These condi-
tions have been eliminated during the summer on a large
part of the driveway system west of the Bronx River,
through surface construction in conerete and asphalt
with low concrete curbing and effective draining; this
noteworthy improvement was obtained by Park Com-
missioner Hennessy, through a city appropriation, as a
part of the program for resurfacing driveways in the
parks and parkways of The Bronx. Top soil aggre-
gating about 2,500 cubic yards for border-grading was in-
cluded in the contract.

A request was made by the Board of Managers on
June 18, 1925, to Park Commissioner Hennessy that he

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apply to the Board of Estimate and Apportionment for
an appropriation of $160,000 for building a driveway
connection between the Rose Garden and the Iris Gar-
den, including a bridge over the Bronx River. Mr. Hen-
nessy transmitted this request, with an explanatory let-
ter, to His Honor, Mayor Hylan, on July 15, 1925, to-
gether with the preliminary plans required, drawn by Mr.
Brinley after consultation with engineers Farrelly and
Seymour of the Park Department. The request has re-
ceived some consideration, but no action has yet been
taken. This driveway construction, when built, will com-
plete the system of interior roads for Bronx Park. It
has been located nearly as indicated in the report of Olm-
sted Brothers, but includes also the reconstruction and
realignment of the present dangerously narrow road ex-
tending from the Rose Garden to Pelham Parkway.

Two paths, partly constructed in 1924, were completed
and opened for public use during the year, using avail-
able broken stone, soil and ashes, labor only being re-
quired. These are both woodland paths, the one extend-
ing from the sidewalk of Pelham Parkway near the south-
eastern corner of the reservation to the Rose Garden, a
distance of about 1,200 feet, the other providing a new
approach to the Iris Garden from the south, a distance of
about 900 feet; both were built along the lines of former
wood-trails without the removal of any trees. Experi-
ence has shown with us, as elsewhere, that an ample path-
system, with guard-rails and sufficient patrol, is the only
sure protection of plantations and of natural features
from trampling, vandalism, and fire. In order to obtain
this security, the path-system should be completed,
guard-railed where necessary as determined from obser-
vation, and the number of keepers increased. Already
from inability to effect such protection, there has been
some deterioration of woodlands, but prompt action may
restore this damage.

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The completion was effected of about 400 feet of
boundary wall and fence, partly constructed along Pel-
ham Parkway in 1924, by the purchase and erection of
the iron fencing required. A bequest of $5,000 received
from the executors of the estate of Helen C. Inslee has
been made available for building the Linnaean Bridge
entrance on Pelham Parkway. Provision for the com-
pletion of the boundary wall and fence along both the
Southern Boulevard and Pelham Parkway during 1926 is
very desirable.

The demolition of the ruined Lorillard Mansion com-
menced late in 1924 was completed in the early summer
of 1925. The work was all done by garden employees and
the materials stacked for future use; these include large
quantities of excellent building stone, bricks, glass, tim-
ber, and slate, available for many construction purposes;
some of this material has already been used in building
cold-frames, paths, and drainage-basins. The site of this
building remains to be regulated, graded, and prepared
for planting; some soil used for filling the cellar excava-
tion has recently been obtained without cost, but more is
required. The area when graded will provide an excel-
lent place for plantations, well protected by woodlands.

As authorized by the subcommittee of the Executive
Committee, a communication was addressed to Park
Commissioner Hennessy on September 18, 1925, asking
his consent to the removal of the stable, shops, and green-
houses of his department standing on parcels of land
east of the Bronx River in Bronx Park reserved for these
structures by the Board of Estimate and Apportionment
in 1915, at which time an addition of about 150 acres of
land was made to the Garden by that Board as author-
ized; Mr. Ilennessy was also requested in the communi-

cation, subject to his consent to these removals being
given, to apply to the Board of Estimate for an appro-
priation of $150,000 to meet the expense involved and

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also, to recommend the transferral of these parcels of
land to the use of the Garden for the development there,
and on lands adjoining, of plantations suggested in the
report of Olmsted Brothers, at an estimated cost to the
Board of Managers of not less than $100,000. The Com-
missioner was of the opinion that the time which would
be required for consideration and action under this re-
quest was too little before the termination of the recent
city administration at the end of 1925.

An area of somewhat more than an acre of stony and
rocky hillside near the museum building was regulated,
graded, and sown with grass-seed during the autumn,
much improving its appearance. Some rock excavation
remains to be accomplished there. The stone obtained in
the grading was all utilized in path-building. This work
and some of the guard-railing placed along paths was ac-
complished by the aid of the following contributions cred-
ited to the Special Development Fund:

Dr. N. L. Britton $1,000.00
Miss Mary A. Dill 15.00
Mr. Childs Frick 250.00
Mrs. Richard March Hoe... 15.00
Mr. John Hubbard 250.00
Mrs. William A. Lockwood oo... 25.00

Mr. Charles Lathrop Pack........... .. §0.00
Mrs. Wheeler H. Peckham ...................... 25.00
Mr. Ogden Reid. ccc ence: ae 50.00
Mrs. James A. Scrymser 500.00
Mr. B. K. Sturgis oe ee sees 250.00

Total voccce ccc oe $2,430.00

Several thousand cubic yards of material needed for
filling in the bottom of the lake valley suggested for a
Rhododendron Glade in the southeastern part of the
grounds has been dumped there by contractors, without

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cost to the Garden, but requires distribution; more can
probably be obtained from similar sources by taking ad-
vantage of opportunities. But, much more filling than
was at first contemplated will be needed on account of the
blockage of the old drainage culvert, at some point south
of the Garden, first made evident in August, 1925, by the
rising of the water in this valley. This unexpected condi-
tion requires taking the valley drainage into a city sewer
in the Bronx Boulevard near by, but the grade of that
sewer is several feet above the bottom of the valley. The
Park Commissioner has been requested to obtain permis-
sion for such a sewer connection, and to apply for a city
appropriation for it, and for the filling required.

A liberal city appropriation for repairs and renewals
has enabled us to effect all necessary painting of bound-
ary fences and of buildings, to reglaze the roofs of two
greenhouses of Conservatory Range No. 1, to reroof the
stable, a small storage house, and the lakeside shelter
house, to replace shades in several greenhouses, and in
part of the museum building, to replace worn-out benches
in greenhouse No. 10, Conservatory Range No. 1, and
many other minor repairs and replacements.

Plans and specifications for the electric lighting of the
Museum Building were authorized by the Board of Man-
agers on April 16, 1925, and after preparation by Mr.
Brinley, in consultation with Mr. Henry A. Sinclair, elec-
trical engineer, and other experts, were transmitted to
Park Commissioner Hennessy on August 5, 1925, with a
request that he apply for a city appropriation of $10,000.
The Commissioner applied for an issue of special reve-
nue bonds in this amount, and these were voted by the
Board of Aldermen on November 30, 1925. The appro-
priation awaits action by the Board of Estimate and Ap-
portionment.

Thirty-nine illustrated public lectures were given in
the Museum Building on Saturday afternoons from

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March to November, inclusive, and twelve talks and
demonstrations were given in the Central Display Green-
house of Conservatory Range 2 on Saturday afternoons
in the months of January, February, and December. Of
these lectures and talks, 33, including all of those in Con-
servatory Range 2, were given by members of the Garden
staff. For the remaining 18, outside speakers brought
viewpoints and experiences that afforded a pleasing vari-
ety to our audiences. The total attendance for the 39
Museum lectures was 3,553, an average of 92 per lecture.

Much instruction has been given to the public on week-
day afternoons by our established system of docentry,
with Mr. R. S. Williams, Administrative Assistant, and
Mr. Percy Wilson, Associate Curator, as the chief guides
and demonstrators, and all members of the staff have
continued to give out much information in response to
numerous inquiries by letter.

Material for study has been furnished to several
schools and colleges, and classes in botany, biology, and
horticulture, notably from the Evander Childs High
School, the Morris High School, the Teachers Training
School, and Columbia University, have made frequent
visits to the Garden.

The position of Supervisor of Public Instruction,
which, chiefly from financial considerations, was allowed
to lapse on the retirement of Dr. W. A. Murrill in Au-
gust, 1924, has not been restored, much of the responsi-
bility in connection with this department of our activities
having been assumed by the Assistant Director. It is
highly desirable that a Supervisor of Public Instruction
be appointed in the near future, both to expand this fea-
ture of our work and to relieve members of the staff of
cares that have been superimposed on their primary
duties.

The serial publications of the Garden during the year
1925 included twelve numbers of the monthly Journal,

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six numbers of Mycologia, four parts of Addisoma, one
part of North American Flora, one number of the Bulle-
tin, and sixteen numbers of Contributions. The very con-
siderable amount of publication by the Garden would
amply justify the appointment of an Editor to give his
whole attention to this important department of the Gar-
den’s activities. This would relieve the Assistant Di-
rector of the care of the Journal and the Bibliographer
of at least a part of the time-consuming labor that he has
for many years devoted to editing Addisonia and North
American Flora. It should aid materially in bringing to
completion the important North American Flora, with
its proposed thirty-four volumes, now about one-fourth
finished, and would facilitate the publication of an au-
thorized volume of the Memoirs.

The additions to the permanent and duplicate collec-
tions of the Museum and Herbarium amounted to 28,208
specimens during the year. The most notable of these
accessions was the herbarium of the late Eugene P. Bick-
nell, who was for ten years one of the Scientific Directors
of the Garden. This important collection of plants, which
is remarkably rich in representatives of the local flora,
was generously given to the Garden by Mrs. Bicknell
after the lamented death of her husband, which occurred
last February.

Dr. Marshall A. Howe, Assistant Director, has con-
tinued to assist in administration and served as Acting
Director for eleven weeks during the absence of the Di-
rector-in-Chief in Porto Rico. He has looked after the
herbarium collections of Algae and Hepaticae, has acted
as editor of the monthly Journal and the occasional Bul-
letin, and has assumed most of the duties of the lapsed
staff-position of Supervisor of Public Instruction. It
would be desirable to relieve the Assistant Director of
some of this responsibility by new appointments, as al-
ready indicated. During the year, Dr. Howe has pub-

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lished papers on dahlia culture and on some fossil Algae
of Montana, the latter in codperation with Dr. Goldman
of the United States Geological Survey.

Dr. John K. Small, Head Curator of the Museums and
Herbarium, has made two exploration trips during the
year, one of them extending from the southern extremity
of peninsular Florida to El Paso, Texas, the other to
Florida alone. In both of these expeditions he has con-
tinued to enjoy the generous codperation of Mr. Charles
Deering. Dr. Small has kept on with his critical studies
of the herbarium specimens obtained by himself and
others in the southeastern states during the past ten
years and also with his studies of extensive living ma-
terial of Iris, Hymenocallis (spider-lilies), and other
genera secured by him. Some of the results of these
studies are embodied in eighteen papers published by him
during the year.

Dr. P. A. Rydberg, Curator, spent two months in the
field during the summer, making collections and studies
of the higher plants in the mountains of Virginia, West
Virginia, Tennessee, and North Carolina. In addition
to supervising the entry of a great number of specimens
in the main herbarium, he has found time to publish the
results of some of his studies of plants of the vetch tribe
and to prepare manuscripts on certain genera of the
Compositae for North American Flora.

Dr. H. A. Gleason, Curator, has continued the study
and arrangement of a large amount of herbarium ma-
terial from northern South America and has published
several papers, in which four genera and about seventy-
five species hitherto unknown to science have been de-
scribed. His investigations have been in codperation
with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, England, the
United States National Museum, and the Gray Her-
barium of Harvard University.

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Dr. Fred J. Seaver, Curator, has remained in charge of
the fungus herbarium and has continued to edit Myco-
logia, our bimonthly serial that is devoted to the publi-
cation of papers on the fungi. With the assistance of
other students of the fungi, he has completed and sent to
the printers a manuscript on the fungi of Porto Rico for
inclusion in the ‘‘Botany of Porto Rico and the Virgin
Islands,’’ now being published under the auspices of the
New York Academy of Sciences, with the cooperation of
The New York Botanical Garden, the Insular Govern-
ment of Porto Rico, ete.

Mr. Percy Wilson, Associate Curator, in addition to
his work in determining and distributing tropical Amer-
ican plants from various localities, continued his codpera-
tion with the Director-in-Chief in preparing the manu-
seript of the Botany of Porto Rico and the Virgin Is-
lands, which is now approaching completion, so far as the
higher plants are concerned. He has also continued
studies of the plants of Cuba and Trinidad.

Mrs. Palmyre de C. Mitchell, Associate Curator, de-
voted her attention to sorting and distributing specimens
for both the general and the local herbarium, to arrang-
ing and sending out duplicate material, to making a pre-
liminary arrangement of the recently acquired Bicknell
herbarium, and to preparing various devices for making
the collections more readily accessible and useful. Dur-
ing the first part of the year, she also assisted in the
Library.

Dr. A. B. Stout, Director of the Laboratories, has con-
tinued his important studies of sterility and fertility in
plants, based especially on the day lilies, the true lilies,
the irises, and certain fruit trees. In his studies of the
true lilics, Mrs. Mortimer J. Fox has again afforded prac-
tical assistance. His investigations of the pollination re-
quirements of fruit trees and his experiments with breed-
ing seedless types of grapes have been carried on at

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Geneva, New York, in codperation with the State Agri-
cultural Experiment Station. In late winter and early
spring, Dr. Stout spent two months in Florida, continu-
ing and extending his studies of flower behavior in avo-
cados, begun in California two years earlier. In co-
dperation with the Oxford Paper Company, he has made
definite progress in breeding experiments with poplars,
obtaining more than 5,500 seedling hybrids, involving
crosses between thirty different species.

Work on the collection of books purchased from
Geneva in 1923 and referred to in two previous reports
has been continued under the direction of Dr. John Hend-
ley Barnhart, Bibliographer, and Miss Sarah H. Harlow,
Librarian. More than 3,500 volumes have been acces-
sioned and only a few hundred remain to be added to the
Garden’s library. Besides adding many volumes that
were entirely new to our collection of books, this notable
purchase has enabled us to return a great number of
volumes that had been deposited in our library by agree-
ment with Columbia University.

Dr. Arthur Hollick, Paleobotanist, has completed his
studies of the Pleistocene flora of the Kootenay Valley,
British Columbia, and has investigated fossil wood un-
earthed at a considerable depth in the southern part of
Manhattan Island and fossil plant remains from Porto
Rico. The months of April, May, and June, he spent in
Washington, on leave of absence, engaged in work on
the fossil flora of Alaska in codperation with the United
States Geological Survey.

Mr. Robert S. Williams, Administrative Assistant, has
been active in docentry work, has given considerable at-
tention to the herbarium collections of mosses and lich-
ens, and has published several papers during the year,
chiefly on South American mosses.

Such time of the Director-in-Chief as has been avail-
able outside of administrative duties has been mainly de-

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voted to curatorial work, to continuation of studies of the
flora of the West Indies and of northern South America,
especially to the native and cultivated plants of Porto
Rico, the Virgin Islands, Trinidad, and Cuba, and, in co-
Operation with Dr. J. N. Rose of the United States Na-
tional Museum, to the preparation of monographs of the
Mimosa Family and the Cassia Family for ‘‘ North Amer-
ican Flora.”’

The City appropriation for maintenance of grounds,
buildings, and collections has been advanced from about
$208,000 in 1925 to $225,000 for 1926, permitting increase
in expenditure for labor and increased remuneration of
nearly all subordinate employees.

I append reports, giving further details as to main-
tenance, development, and instruction, by Dr. Small,
Head Curator; by Dr. Stout, Director of the Labora-
tories; by Mr. Boynton, Head Gardener; by Dr. Barnhart,
Bibliographer; by Miss Harlow, Librarian; by Mr. Cor-
bett, Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds; by Dr.
Hollick, Paleobotanist; by Mrs. Britton, Honorary Cu-
rator of Mosses; by Dr. Rusby, Honorary Curator of the
Eeonomic Collections; and by Dr. Denslow, Honorary
Custodian of the Local Herbarium.

Respectfully submitted,
N. L. Brirron,
Secretary and Director-in-Chief

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REPORT OF THE HEAD CURATOR OF THE
MUSEUMS AND HERBARIUM

Dr. N. L. Britton, Director-1n-Curr:

Sir: I submit herewith my report as Head Curator of
Museums and Herbarium of The New York Botanical
Garden for the year 1925.

The several collections under my supervision were con-
served as in the preceding year and developed according
to the means provided.

Additions to the museum and herbarium resources
were made as follows:

By gift and purchase.......... 11,701 specimens
By exchange —00 6,250 ms
By exploration WW... . 10,257

Thus a total of 28,208 specimens was added to the per-
manent and duplicate collections. The specimens repre-
sent a wide geographic range. The most valuable addi-
tions—those bearing directly on the investigations now
in progress at the Garden—were from northern South
America, Central America, Mexico, North America, and
the West Indies. Eastern Asia, Europe, and Australia
are also represented in the accessions.

The largest single accession was the Bicknell Her-
barium* which was accumulated by the late Mr. E. P.
Bicknell and was presented to the Garden by Mrs.
Bicknell.

About 1,500 duplicate specimens were sent to other
institutions in exchange.

MUSEUMS

In the Economic Museum various new specimens were
interpolated and new labels were furnished in some of
the cases. The economic collections were under the su-

1See Journal of The New York Botanical Garden 26: 193-195. 1925.

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pervision of Dr. H. H. Rusby. For details see the report
of the Honorary Curator of the Economic Collections.

In the Systematic Museum: (a) the synoptic collection
was improved by the addition to some of the plant fami-
lies, (b) the local flora collection was increased by speci-
mens in the lower groups, (¢) the plant picture collection
remained as it was last year, (d) the microscope exhibit
was varied by the change of some of the objects under
the lenses. The cases and exhibits formerly in the east
wing were moved into the east hall, thus making room for
the herbarium equipment which is to occupy the east
wing.

In the Fossil Plant Museum specimens from the North
American mainland, the West Indies, and Asia were
added. The fossil collections were under the supervision
of Dr. Arthur Hollick. For details see the report of the
Paleobotanist.

HERBARIA

The specimens added to the permanent collections were
drawn from the bulk received during the year and from
the unmounted accumulation of former years, as was
— by the needs of the investigational work in
progre

A total of 20,000 herbarium sheets was used. These
represent about a total of 30,000 specimens incorporated
in the permanent collections. They were divided be-
tween the general Garden herbarium, the local flora her-
barium, and the Columbia University herbarium.

The local flora herbarium was under the supervision of
Dr. Herbert M. Denslow. For details see the report of
the Honorary Custodian of the Local Herbarium.

The moss herbarium was under the supervision of Mrs.
N. L. Britton. For details see the report of the Honorary
Curator of Mosses.

Some details of the activities of members of the sci-
entific staff are referred to in the several items under

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INVESTIGATIONS AND ASSISTANCE
in which the more important and valuable researches and
published results are mentioned.

Dr. P. A. Rydberg, Curator, was in charge of the her-
barium of flowering plants. His main routine work was
the naming of plants sent in for identification, the sorting
and selecting of specimens for mounting, and the distri-
bution of mounted specimens in the herbarium cases. As
much time as possible was devoted to taxonomic work on
the genus Astragalus and to a study of the flora of the
prairie and plain region of the western central States.
A large amount of manuscript—treatment of genera of
Carduaceae—for North American Flora was put in the
hands of the editors. Dr. Rydberg spent two months col-
lecting plants in the mountains of Virginia, West Vir-
ginia, Tennessee, and North Carolina. About 3,000 speci-
mens were secured. A report on the field work is being
prepared, and will be printed in the Journal of the Gar-
den. Dr. Rydberg published ‘‘Notes on Fabaceae’’—
IV-VI, and ‘‘Some Extinct or Lost and Rediscovered
Plants’’—I-II, and assisted in the instruction of visiting
classes of pupils from various schools.

Dr. H. A. Gleason, Curator, continued the organization
of the large accumulations of herbarium material from
northern South America. The chief scientific result of
his activity was the publication of eight taxonomic
papers, describing four new genera and about seventy-
five new species, mostly among the Lobeliaceae and Me-
lastomataceae. He also published two papers on ecology
and five short papers of miscellaneous nature. Dr.
Gleason assisted in the instruction of visiting classes of
high-school pupils and delivered four lectures in the reg-
ular Saturday afternoon courses.

Dr. Fred J. Seaver, Curator, since Dr. W. A. Murrill’s
retirement, took charge of the entire fungus herbarium.
A large quantity of accumulated material was sorted and

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mounted, and fresh guide-labels supplied for many of the
herbarium cases. In connection with this work a careful
inventory was made of our collection of plant rusts, which
was found to comprise 37,378 specimens in packets. This
is probably the largest rust collection in America with
the exception of the Arthur Herbarium at Purdue Uni-
versity. In addition to curatorial work, Dr. Seaver was
appointed official editor of Mycologia at the beginning of
the year. Six numbers of this journal were published.
The volume comprised 276 pages, 26 plates, and 7 text
figures. The manuscript on the ‘‘Mycology of Porto
Rico and the Virgin Islands’’ was completed and is now
in the hands of the printers. In this work Dr. Seaver was
assisted by Dr. L. O. Overholts, of the Pennsylvania
State College; Professors H. H. Whetzel and F. D. Kern,
of Cornell University and Pennsylvania State College,
respectively, and by Mr. R. A. Toro, of Porto Rico. Dr.
Seaver gave three lectures on Saturday afternoon course,
assisted in the instruction of visiting school children, and
devoted some time to the work connected with the elimi-
nation of destructive insects. A number of smaller
papers were published during the year and research work
on various groups of Ascomycetes was continued.

Mr. Perey Wilson, Associate Curator, along with his
studies on tropical American plants, continued his work
in coéperation with you, especially on the flora of Porto
Rico and the Virgin Islands. The seventh part of the in-
terpretation of the flora of those islands is now nearing
completion. Mr. Wilson also named and distributed
many West Indian plants received from various sources.
Owing to the large number of visitors and pupils from
both public and private schools, Mr. Wilson’s work as
docent was greatly increased. During the summer
months he gave special attention to developing the collec-
tions in the Herbaceous Grounds.

Mrs. William Mitchell, Associate Curator, devoted her
attention to sorting duplicate specimens and to sorting

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and distributing mounted specimens into the herbarium
cases. She also spent much time in renovating various
families in the flowering-plant herbarium and renewing
and keeping up to date the various kinds of guide-labels,
and in listing, checking, and returning to their cases loans
of specimens. Mrs. Mitchell devoted much time to the
sorting and distribution of the specimens of the local
flora herbarium and to preparing various devices for ren-
dering the collection more useful. She also made a pre-
liminary arrangement of the Bicknell Herbarium—the
families numerical (Engler & Prantl sequence) and the
genera alphabetical—and in the early part of the year
helped in the Library.

The undersigned, in addition to curatorial details and
routine, devoted all the available time to botanical inves-
tigations, some of which are referred to in the following
items: (a) to organizing the herbarium material collected
by him during the past decade, so that the specimens
could be studied and distributed into the permanent col-
lections; (b) to studies in the living collections of Iris,
Hymenocallis, and miscellaneous plants accumulated dur-
ing former explorations and through a correspondent in
southern Texas, Robert Runyon. Many specimens flow-
ered and were painted by Miss Eaton, Artist, as subjects
for future illustration in Addisonia; (c) to making two
outdoor duplicate plantings, with the assistance of Mrs.
Wheeler H. Peckham, of the iris plants from the Southern
States, which were formerly installed in cold-frames;
(d) to an intensive study of the flora and plant-geography
of the southeastern States and the beginning of a taxo-
nomic and geographic interpretation of the vegetation;
(e) two exploration trips were made to Florida, through
the codperation of Mr. Charles Deering, where studies
were continued both in the field and in the Deering reser-
vations at Buena Vista and at Cutler. During the spring
trip the field-work was extended from Florida through

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the low country of the Gulf States as far west as El Paso,
Texas, thence back to Florida through Oklahoma and
Arkansas and the upper country of Louisiana, Missis-
sippi, and Alabama. By these excursions much valuable
herbarium and living material, and many photographs,
as well as much information, were added to our resources.
Information resulting from former field-work and from
some of the activities enumerated above furnished ma-
terial for eighteen articles which were printed during the
vear,
Respectfully submitted,
oHN K. Sati,
Head Curator of the Museums and Herbarium

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REPORT OF THE HEAD GARDENER

Dr. N. L. Brrrron, Director-1n-CuHter.

Sir: I have the honor to present herewith my report
for the year 1925.

HORTICULTURAL OPERATIONS

The gardening staff under the direction of Messrs.
John Finley and H. W. Becker, Foremen Gardeners,
consisted of 27 gardeners and 14 laborers. The outside
force, under direction of Mr. Finley, after finishing the
winter tree work, spent the major part of the season in
flower garden work. New Chrysanthemum, Phlox, rose,
tulip, Narcissus, and Hemerocallis plantings were made.

The naturalizing of daffodils was continued along the
road to the Southern Boulevard Entrance, some 14,000
bulbs being planted under the direction of Mrs. Wheeler
H. Peckham, who, with the aid of Mr. R. 8S. Sturtevant
and Mr. John C. Wister, supervised the replanting of the
Iris Garden, our force planting the 15 old beds according
to their plans of a color scheme for the American Iris
Society. The old tulip display beds were prepared and
planted with 36,000 bulbs, the Conservatory Court beds
with 20,000, two new borders made and partially planted
according to plans of Mrs. Robert C. Hill. 18 trees were
planted along roads and paths, 46 trees were planted in
the Pinetum, 80 trees were planted in the Arboretum, 248
shrubs were planted in the Fruticetum, 88 Hibiscus were
planted around the Lake. There were 52 specimens
planted in the Dwarf Collection, and a new plantation of
late-blooming shrubs was begun by placing 9 Witch-
hazels, 9 Sweet Pepper Bush and 4 Rose of Sharon speci-
mens.

GREENHOUSE OPERATIONS

The greenhouse force under the direction of Mr.

Becker has maintained the indoor collections as usual.

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The plants in House No. 6, Range No. 1, consisting of
century plants, African desert plants, and cacti, were
removed, renovated, and replaced, pending the reglazing
of the dome. Those in House No. 10 were removed while
the new concrete benches were being placed and in House
No. 13 the collections were renovated and the vines
changed after the repairs to the glass work.

1,203 plants, including 300 Chrysanthemums, 60 Pri-
mulas, 150 Begonias, 175 Pelargoniums, 153 Fuchsias,
125 Hippeastrums, 50 Hydrangeas, 50 Solanums, 40 Glox-
inias, 40 Impatiens, and 60 stocks, were grown for exhi-
bition in the Central Display House. The feature exhi-
bition was the Chrysanthemum show, the 60 varieties
given by Elmer D. Smith & Co., Adrian, Michigan, being
especially fine. An increasing number of seedlings were
raised for systematic collection, for the Rock Garden, for
the Flower Gardens, and for the Nurseries, as well as
plants for Dr. Small’s studies of native irises, for Dr.
Stout’s researches, and several thousand bedding plants.

SYSTEMATIC PLANTATIONS

Herbaceous Grounds. Dr. E. B. Southwick and Mr.
Perey Wilson have added 300 species of plants to the her-
baceous collection this year, through seeds, gifts, and col-
lections, these distributed over about 75 families. With
these additions this collection now contains about 1,230
species ; these added to those of the Rock Garden, Flower
Gardens, and Nurseries, give the Garden a collection of
nearly 3,200 species of herbaceous plants.

Woody Collection. 65 species of hardy woody plants
new to our collections were raised from seed this vear,
increasing the plants in the nursery available for these
collections by about 374.

Conservatories. About 23,893 plants are now in our
greenhouse collection, including 8,769 at Range No. 1,
9,627 at Range No. 2, and 5,497 at Propagating Houses.

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90 varieties of water-lilies, 600 plants, were shown in the
Conservatory Court.

MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS

Rose Garden. 700 hybrid tea and hybrid perpetual,
996 polyantha, and 4 climbing roses for replacements,
also 10 new varieties, were added to the Garden this year
by Bobbink and Atkins, of Rutherford, N. J. The Garden
now contains 4,500 plants of 280 varieties.

Dahlia Garden. 350 varieties represented by 850
plants were grown in the Dahlia Border, under the direc-
tion of Dr. M. A. Howe.

Iris Garden. The Iris collection contains now about
1,000 varieties, 3,000 plants, including the alphabetical
and the nursery collection. 400 plants of American
native Irises, collected by Dr. Small and others, were
added to the collection.

Narcissus Collection. The Dutch Bulb Exporters’ As-
sociation donated to the Garden a collection of Narcissus
numbering 14,200 bulbs. This gift, together with other
kinds given by Mrs. W. H. Peckham and purchased
through the Narcissus Fund, and including those planted
a year earlier, gives a display for 1926 of some 61,200
daffodils, 146 varieties, in massed and naturalistic plant-
ing. Mrs. W. H. Peckham planned and supervised this
planting and gave other varieties, unsuitable for this
location, to the Rock Garden.

Hyacinth Display. 6,000 hyacinths, in 6 varieties, were
in bloom this spring and were admired by the public.
They were given by the Dutch Bulb Exporters’ Associa-
tion, and were planted along the terrace east of Range

o. 1.
Gladiolus Collection. The Gladiolus collection now
contains about 15,000 bulbs in about 70 varieties.
Variegated Plant Collection. 68 varieties, 550 plants,
were displayed in the variegated plant bed.

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Hardy Chrysanthemum Collection. 95 varieties, 1,086
plants, were grown for this display. There were 220
plants in 22 varieties given by Bobbink & Atkins, and 216
plants in 19 varieties given by the Chas. H. Totty Com-
pany for this collection. An increasing interest in this
collection was shown by people all over the country.

Peony Collection. This collection now contains 166
varieties, 427 plants.

Phlox Collection. This collection contains 24 varieties,
276 plants, of which 200 plants in 18 varieties were given
by Bobbink & Atkins, Rutherford, N. J.

Lilac Garden. The Lilac collection consists of 560
plants of 186 named varieties.

Canna Collection. 1,500 plants, 60 varieties, were dis-
played in the Canna collection.

Tulip Display. 36,000 in 80 varieties given by the
Dutch Bulb Exporters’ Association and 11,399 in 55
varieties given by John Scheepers, Ine.

Coleus Collection. This collection consisted of about
3,500 plants in 10 varieties and was planted along the
terrace east of Range No. 1.

Mallow Collection. This collection remains the same
as last year.

Rock Garden. 500 species of plants were set out in the
Rock Garden in 1925 under the direction of Dr. E. B.
Southwick. Mrs. W. H. Peckham presented many bulbs
of Narcissus, Crocus, Colehium, and other genera. These
together with mass planting of Sedums, Sempervivums,
and quantities of plants raised by Dr. Southwick from
cuttings, made the Rock Garden a great attraction to
visitors.

Dwarf Collection. This collection contains 52 plants in
25 varieties.

LABELING, RECORDING, AND HERBARIUM
Under the direction of Mr. John Hartling, Head Gar-
dener’s Assistant, with one label boy, a total of 3,231

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labels have been made and placed, including 102 for the
Fruticetum, 120 for the Arboretum, 80 for the Pinetum,
347 for the Horticultural Grounds, 17 for the Dwarf Col-
lection, 729 for Conservatory Range No. 1, 338 for Con-
servatory Range No. 2, 471 for Conservatory Beds, 300
for Herbaceous Grounds, 80 for the Iris Garden, 90 for
the Rock Garden, 280 for the Dahlia Border, 74 for the
Rose Garden, 233 for Roads and Paths, 2,000 pot labels
painted, 3,190 labels made for stock, and 40 signs were
painted. Accession numbers 54,815 to 56,243 have been
recorded, making a total of 1,428 accessions for the year.
4,032 packets of seed were received, 264 by gift, 2,415 by
exchange, 696 by purchase, 697 by collection. 62,501 bulbs
were received, and 5,279 plants, of the latter 935 were by
gitt, 1,189 by collection, 1,407 by exchange, and 1,748
from seed. 175 specimens were added to the herbarium
of cultivated plants.

This department has collected material for schools,
nature study, and college classes in botany and exchanged
living plants with institutions and parks.

LECTURES
1 have delivered five lectures in the regular courses
and 12 radio talks from station WEAF, New York City.
Respectfully submitted,
Kennetu R. Boynton,
ead Gardener

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REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR OF LABORATORIES

Dr. N. L. Barrroy, Director-1n-CuIeEF.
Sir: I have the honor to submit the following report
for the year 1925.

GENERAL MATTERS

During the past year the routine duties incident to the
general activities of the Garden have been performed,
Miss Hester M. Rusk has continued as Technical As-
sistant, and Mrs. Jean Kerr has continued to assist vol-
untarily in certain projects of research. No special
changes have been made during the year in providing
facilities for research but certain of these are in mind for
your consideration.

PERSONAL INVESTIGATIONS

My personal research continues to be concerned chiefly
with problems of sterility and fertility and may be re-
ported briefly under the major projects as follows:

Investigations with svecies of Lilium. This research,
fully outlined in the Journal of The New York Botanical
Garden (23: 155-158), has now been in progress for
nearly ten years. The lilies have been excellent material
for the study of sterility. Much has been learned regard-
ing the possibilities of hybridization in lilies and of the
proper culture for seedlings. The difficulties which cer-
tain of the lilies present in ordinary culture have become
rather clearly defined.

The studies of the past year have been largely con-
cerned with seedlings of our own rearing, a considerable
number of which have been grown to blooming age in out
of door culture. Over 300 of these have now been allotted
for display planting.

The attempt made to force native lilies for the flower
show last March met with failure. For display at the
flower show next March we are now attempting to force

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bulbs of Lilium regale kindly donated for this purpose
by Mr. C. P. Horsford and bulbs of L. croceum and of
L. davuricum purchased from funds supplied by Mrs.
Mortimer J. Fox.

Special effort should perhaps now be made to grow for
display in our border plantings a considerable number of
at least 15 different species of lilies most suitable to gen-
eral garden culture. The bulbs of various species could
now be furnished for the experimental studies.

No group of floricultural plants needs more careful
and scientific study than do the lilies and particularly in
regard to the parasites and diseases which seriously
affect them.

Investigations with day lies. Very satisfactory re-
sults are now being had in the experimental studies with
the various day lilies (Hemerocallis). They have been
especially favorable for the study of sterility involving
incompatibility, both self and cross, in fertilization.
Many new types, possibly of horticultural value, are be-
ing developed through hybridization. A general report
of these results have recently been published (Jour. N. Y.
Bot. Gard. 26: 169-178) and other reports will appear
later.

Other studies of sterility and of variegation are being
carried on with plants of Pelargonium, Linaria, Brassica,
Abutilon, and Ligularia, and in the growing of these the
facilities of the experimental greenhouse are being fully
utilized.

Investigations at the State Experiment Station. With
your permission I am continuing to codperate with the
State Experiment Station at Geneva, N. Y., in (a) the
breeding for seedless types of grapes and (b) in studies
of the pollination requirements of certain of the impor-
tant cultivated fruits. For the pollination studies of the
past season the Experiment Station constructed tents to
enclose entire trees of the Bartlett Pear, the Black Tar-

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tarian Cherry, and the Cortland Apple. Thus far it has
been difficult to secure viable pollen of the vinifera seed-
less grapes for use in breeding. If plans to secure such
pollen succeed, this breeding will be greatly facilitated.

Further studies of the flower behavior of avocados. It
was with considerable personal pleasure that I was en-
abled to spend February and March in Florida in con-
tinuing and extending the studies with avocados which I
began in California in the spring of 1923. The expenses
incurred in this investigation were met by Dade County
through its Farm Bureau. The County Agent, Mr. J. S.
Rainey, various officers of the Florida Avocado Associa-
tion, and numerous growers of avocados, especially Mr.
W. J. Krome of Homestead, Florida, codperated very
fully. Mr. KE. M. Savage and Mr. T. Ralph Robinson of
the U. 8S. Department of Agriculture codperated. Mr.
Savage assisted throughout most of the period of the in-
vestigation. <A full report of these studies is now ready
for publication.

The investigations with poplars. This research, un-
dertaken in codperation with the Oxford Paper Company,
has yielded some very definite results. Rapid progress
is being made in the various projects, especially in the
breeding of poplars. In the year’s work, over 5,500 seed-
ling hybrids were obtained, involving crosses between
thirty different species. These and other results will be
reported in detail in due time. Mr. E. J. Schreiner con-
tinues to devote all his time to this research. Assistance,
labor, and materials have been liberally supplied by the
Oxford Paper Company as needed.

STUDENTS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
Special mention should be made of the fact that the
American Iris Society appropriated, last spring, funds
for two scholarships to be devoted to the studies of the
sterilities in the irises. These scholarships were granted

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to Miss Louise Cover and Miss Marjorie Swabey, who
worked most industriously on the problem throughout
the season of the blooming of the irises. A report of
these studies is now published.

During the year the following persons have been form-
ally registered for research at the Garden either as stu-
dents or as recipients of scholarships.

Cover, Louise A., Sterilities of Irises.
Degener, Otto, Systematic Botany.
Jacot, Arthur Paul, Systematic Botany.
Moore, Clarence E., Plant Breeding.
Overholts, Lee O., Mycology.
Pope, Gladys A. Systematic Botany.
Schreiner, Ernest J., Research with Populus.
Smith, Albert C., Taxonomy of Ferns.
Swabey, Marjorie, Sterilities of Irises.
Toro, Rafael, Mycology.
Varrelman, Ferdinand A., Plant Breeding.
Wodehouse, Roger P., Studies with Pollen.
Respectfully submitted,
A. B. Stout,
Director of the Laboratories

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REPORT OF THE BIBLIOGRAPHER

Dr. N. L. Brrrron, Drrector-1n-CHIErF.

Sir: I have the honor to submit the following report
for the year 1925.

Work on the collection of books purchased from Geneva
in 1923 has been continued, but is not yet completed.
More than three thousand volumes have now been acces-
sioned; only a few hundred remain to be added to the
library.

Of North American Flora only one part has been issued
during the year: volume 7, part 10, in September; an-
other part of the same volume is in press. With volume
7, which is nearing completion, and the work on the
Geneva book-purchase out of the way, work on North
American Flora should proceed much more rapidly, but
editorial assistance could be utilized advantageously.
Four parts of Addisonia have been published during the
year: the coneluding number of volume 9, and three of
volume 10.

In addition to the routine work pertaining to his office,
the Bibliographer has given three lectures in the Garden
courses on Saturday afternoons.

Respectfully submitted,
JouHn Henpiey Barnuart,
Bibliographer

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REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN

Dr. N. L. Brrrrox, Drrector-1n-CHIEr.

Sar: I have the honor to submit the following report
for the year 1925.

No census of the library was made this year but the
records furnish the following statistics with regard to the
bound volumes. There were acquired by gift 41 in addi-
tion to 23 given by Mr. N. T. Kidder in 1917 and not
hitherto accessioned; by exchange, 26; and by purchase,
64. Of the Geneva purchase made in 1923, 1,555 volumes
were accessioned during the past year. There have been
bound 490 volumes, including 17 belonging to Columbia
University, and many items of the Geneva purchase. The
total number of accessions was thus 2,199.

Owing to the crowded condition of the stacks, it was
decided that, if agreeable to Columbia, we would return
a part of their books which were duplicated in the Garden
collection. Accordingly, a list was submitted to them in
October and upon their authorization and in accordance
with the agreement between the two institutions dated
January 8, 1896, 1,860 bound volumes were withdrawn,
listed, and packed ready for shipment. This leaves a
balance of 339, which, added to 33,636, the census num-
bers for 1924, makes the approximate number in the
library to be 33,975.

It seems fitting here to express our thanks to Columbia
for the use of their books during these past years. Many
of them have been of invaluable aid in the carrying on of
our work.

Among the gifts received during the past year should
be mentioned the botanical library of the late E. P. Bick-
nell, Esq., and a large collection of books, pamphlets,
serials, and documents presented by Dr. F. H. Blodgett.
Among the notable purchases was that of 16 Linnaean

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dissertations, making our set of the botanical series now
complete with the exception of three.

The leading accessions have been listed in the Journal
as heretofore.

There have been added to the catalogue 3,212 type-
written and 2,457 printed ecards, the latter issued by the
Torrey Botanical Club.

The following additions and corrections should be
made to the list of serials as appended to the report of
the Librarian for 1921 (Bulletin 12: 41-61) and supple-
mented in the reports for 1922 (12: 139), 1923 (12: 211,
212), and 1924 (18: 33).

Omit the following:

Butantan. Instituto Butantan: Seec&o de Botanico, S. Paulo, Brazil.
Anexos das Mémorias.
Change the following:
Christiania. Hortus Botanicus, Christiania, Norway, to Oslo. Hortus
otanicus
Garden Maparine: New York, N. Y., to Garden and Home Builder.
Add the following:

* Archiv fiir wissenschaftliche Botanik, Berlin, Germany.
Archivos de botanica de Estado de 8. 8 8. Paulo, Brazil.

aphy 8 Mas
rdin Botanique de Nikita, sie Russia. Bulletin de l’Herbier,
Deke aii exsiccatarum, Delectus Seminum

Montevide o Nacional, Montevideo, Uruguay, -dnales.

Royal aoe sci Dabo , Ireland. Scientific a ess

Societas Zool.-Botanica Fennica Vanamo, Helsinki, Finland, Annales.

Société Polonaise = Naturalis “‘Kopernik,’’ Lwéw, Poland. Botanical
Papers from ‘‘ Ko

Zagreb. “University, Bees Institute, Zagreb, Jugo-Slavia. Acta
Botanica.

Zeitaehritt fiir Pilzkunde.
Zionist Organization. Agricultural Experiment Station, Tel Aviv, Palestine,
Bulletin.

Respectfully submitted,
SaraH H. Hariow,
Inbrarian

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REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF
BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS

Dr. N. L. Brirron, Director-1n-Cuter.

Sir: I have the honor to submit the following report
for the year 1925.

REGULATING AND GRADING

There has been considerable regulating and grading of
roads and paths in the Garden during the past year.

Both sides of the main drive from the South Gate to
the northern entrance and of the west drive from 200th
Street to the circle above the lakes were regulated and
graded, for which work 2,000 yards of top-soil were
used. This soil was supplied by contract with the Park
Department. The two above-mentioned drives have been
rebuilt completely. Both sides of the path leading from
the Iris Garden to the picnic grounds and of the path
leading from the Rose Garden to the southeastern en-
trance have been regulated and graded.

Contractors working in the vicinity of the Garden who
were seeking a suitable place to dispose of soil taken
from excavations have been carting such soil into the
Garden at their own expense. During the past year they
brought in about 14,000 yards of this soil, 12,000 yards
of which were placed along the northern and eastern
sides of the Long Lake so as to fill in the bottom of the
valley, and 500 yards were used to fill in and grade the
cellar of the Lorillard Mansion, which had been destroyed
by fire. The remainder of this soil, consisting of about
1,500 yards, was placed on the western side of the Bronx
River.

DRAINAGE

The catch-basins on both sides of the main drive were

raised to meet the change of grade caused by the re-

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building of the main drive. A culvert 20 inches wide, 20
inches high and 120 feet long was built on the western
side of the Bronx River so as to drain the picnic grounds
and the Iris Garden. Two culverts were built under the
path through the picnic grounds and two culverts were
also built under the path through the oaks at the Large
Lake. In order to extend the pipes at the head of the
Large Lake, which is being filled in, 36 feet of 20-inch
pipe were used.
WATER SUPPLY

The water system in the Museum Building, the Propa-
gating Houses, the comfort stations and the Rose Garden,
as well as the drinking fountains throughout the grounds,
received all necessary repairs.

PATHS

The main drive from the southern entrance to the
northern entrance and the west drive from 200th Street
to the circle at the lakes were rebuilt with 6 inches of con-
crete and two inches of asphalt. A curb 4 inches high
was built on both sides of the road in order to protect
the grass gutters. In the reconstruction of these roads,
7 extra catch-basins, 42 drop inlets and 1,726 feet of
6-inch tile-pipe were used. The work was completed in
fifty working days. All the cross-paths and the paths
on the west drive to the Mosholu entrance were raised
to meet the grade of the road. A 10-foot path 800 feet
long was built and completed from the southeastern en-
trance to the Rose Garden. Another 10-foot path, 655
feet long, was built and completed in the picnic grounds
in the western part of the Garden. The paths in the Iris
Garden and through the white and red pine collection, as
well as the terrace around Conservatory Range No. 1,
were resurfaced and rolled. All the paths in the northern
part of the Garden were cleaned and resurfaced.

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BUILDINGS

The doors and window sashes in the basement and all
the window sashes of the third floor and the east and west
wings of the Museum Buildings received two coats of
paint. Repairs were made to the copper on the eastern
and western sides of the roof of the Museum Building, as
well as to all the windows of its roof. Our steam engi-
neers made all necessary repairs to the steam and water
systems in the basement of the Museum Building and the
carpenters repaired the windows and doors. New shades
were put up in all the windows of the basement.

All the glass and sash bars of the roof of houses 6 and
13 of Conservatory Range 1 were replaced and these two
houses received two coats of paint. All the 3-inch copper
leaders in houses 5, 6, 7, 8, and 13 of Conservatory Range
1 were replaced. The old benches of house 10 were re-
placed with concrete benches, two side benches 64 feet
long, one end bench 10 feet long and a three-tiered center
bench. In house 12 one end bench 10 feet long was built.
All the loose and broken glass at Conservatory Ranges 1
and 2 were replaced by the painters. Repairs were also
made to the sash-bars at the Propagating Houses and all
broken glass was replaced; houses 1, 2, 3, and 4 were re-
paired and received two coats of white paint.

The roofs of the stable and the stone hut were re-
shingled and the valleys and gutters replaced. The floors
of the stalls of the stable were repaired. The fire boxes
of five boilers at Power House 1 and of two boilers at
Power House 2 were rebuilt.

Repairs were made to the heating systems of the Mu-
seum Building, Conservatory Ranges 1 and 2, and to the
Propagating Houses by our steam engineers.

GROUNDS
A two-rail fence, 1,512 feet long, was built around Lake
A and another two-rail fence, 686 feet long, was built

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from the Southern Boulevard Entrance to the Elevated
Railway Approach. Around the white-pine collection,
1,200 feet of a two-rail fence and 434 feet of a one-rail
fence were put up. Along the path on the northern side
of Conservatory Range 1 a one-rail fence, 2,075 feet long,
was built. This makes a total of 3,399 feet of two- rail
fencing and 2,509 feet of one-rail fencing.

A 6-foot iron boundary fence, 375 feet long, was erected
along Pelham Parkway east of the Bronx River. A
similar fence, 125 feet long, was erected along the west-
ern side of the Bronx River near the Iris Garden en-
trance. Repairs were made to the cedar fences at the
Woodlawn Road Approach and along the Bronx River, as
well as to the one-and two-rail iron fences throughout the
grounds, wherever necessary. Two coats of paint were
given to 525 feet of the fence at the Fordham College
boundary, to 700 feet at the Southern Boulevard and to
2,200 feet along Bronx Park East, these fences being 6
feet high, making a total of 3,425 feet.

Ten rustic benches were repaired and the signs and
maps put up around the Garden were repaired or re-
placed wherever necessary. The Propagating Houses
were supplied with fuel for about four months from
wood cut from dead and fallen trees.

About sixty tons of hay were cut this year and we have
also continued the uprooting of poison ivy throughout
the grounds.

From May until September, nearly a dozen picnics a
week visited the Garden. These parties averaged from
about 75 to 1,000 children attending the public and Sun-
day schools of Greater New York, New Jersey, and Con-
necticut, who were escorted to the picnic grounds set
aside for these groups by our special guards detailed
there daily.

Four uniformed police officers were assigned to the
Garden daily during the hours from ten in the morning

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until six at night, from May of this year. On Sundays
and holidays these officers were assisted by two additional
officers in civilian clothes. Twelve guards were selected
from the laborers and gardeners to aid our own keepers
in patroling the Garden on Sundays and holidays. Nearly
300 summonses were served by the police officers for vio-
lations of park ordinances and the offenders were fined
from one to twenty-five dollars in the magistrates’ courts.

On Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays during the sum-
mer months, about 50,000 visitors came to the Garden,
but during July and August this number was greatly
increased.

The damage to the plantations was very small because
of the vigilance of our employes. Special guards were
assigned to the rose, gladiolus, and dahlia collections
twenty-four hours a day because of the growing number
of visitors to these collections.

Respectfully submitted,
ArtTHurR J. CornBETT,
Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds

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REPORT OF THE HONORARY CURATOR OF THE
ECONOMIC COLLECTIONS FOR THE
YEAR 1925

Dr. N. L. Brrrton, Drrector-1x-CuHier.

Sir: I have the honor to submit the following report
of the economic collections under my care for the year
1925.

There have been no large or important additions to
these collections during the past year. Attention has
been limited to the installation and recording of such oc-
easional additions as have come to hand, in completing
old collections, and the records of many already in-
stalled, as new information concerning them has come to
hand, and in planning for the future. The necessity for
extensive printing of labels of a more informative char-
acter than many of those now possessed has been so often
pointed out, that mere reference to the subject is called
for here. At the present time, we possess no adequate
means for carrying out this important undertaking, but
it is fully provided for in the elaborate plans for exten-
sion and reorganization that have been published by
President Lee. Hardly less important are the plans in
contemplation for a new class of exhibits, intended to
convey information regarding the manner in which crude
vegetable products are brought into usable form and con-
dition. These matters have been discussed at length with
President Lee and others, and I eagerly await the time
when such improvements can be introduced into our Eeo-
nomic Museum.

As was the case in 1924, so during the past year, my
available time has been directed chiefly to the study of
the Bolivian plants collected on the Mulford Expedition
of 1921-1922. More than two hundred new species and

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several new genera have been studied and described, and
the results are expected to be published early in the com-
ing year. The completion of this work will enable me to
determine many doubtful points regarding the economic
materials collected on that Expedition.
Respectfully submitted,
H. H. Russy,
Honorary Curator of the Economic Collection

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REPORT OF THE PALEOBOTANIST

Dr. N. L. Berrton, Director-1n-CHIer.

Sir: I have the honor to report as follows upon paleo-
botanical matters which have received my attention dur-
ing the year 1925.

From April 8 to July 1, J was in Washington, D. C., on
leave of absence, engaged in work on the fossil flora of
Alaska for the United States Geological Survey.

The principal item of work in connection with the Gar-
den has been the continuation and completion of my
study of the Pleistocene flora of the Kootenay Valley,
British Columbia, based upon specimens transmitted by
the Canada Geological Survey. This work is now await-
ing publication.

Other investigations have been concerned with exami-
nations of fossil wood and other plant remains from
Pleistocene swamp deposits unearthed on Manhattan
Island and in Porto Rico. The results of these investi-
gations have been completed and descriptive manuscript
has been submitted for publication.

Twenty-four specimens were added to the paleobo-
tanical collections, most of which were acquired as dona-
tions and others in return for assistance rendered in con-
nection with their identification and description.

Accessions of paleobotanical literature included thirty-
two octavo and eight quarto separates received as ex-
changes from twenty-six different authors, eight of whom
represent new contributors.

On request of Professor M. A. Chrysler, of Rutgers
University, a series of nine characteristic species of Car-
bonifcrous plants, selected from duplicate material in the
Garden collection, was transmitted for educational work,
in exchange for herbarium specimens.

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In connection with the Garden lecture courses, it was
my privilege to speak on ‘‘Some plants concerned in the
formation of coal,’’ ‘‘The Dismal Swamp of Virginia,’’
and ‘‘The origin and history of soils,’’ in each of which
lectures fossil plants were either directly or indirectly
concerned.

Respectfully submitted,
ArtrHur Howick,
Paleobotanist

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REPORT OF THE HONORARY CURATOR OF
MOSSES

Dr. N. L. Brrrron, Drrector-1n-CuHier.

Sir: During the year a number of interesting collec-
tions have been added to the herbarium; notably the
mosses from Southern Arizona, collected by E. B. Bar-
tram. These include a number of new species and extend
the range northward from Mexico of several others. The
National Museum has continued sending mosses for nam-
ing, including several small collections from Venezuela,
British Guiana, Ecuador, Chile, and Peru, which Mr.
Willams has studied. The Botanical Gardens at Berlin
have very kindly loaned for study two valuable types of
Orthotrichum from the Bridel Herbarium and sent 41
specimens of Chilean mosses collected by J. Hallmayer
in exchange for some Bolivian duplicates collected by Mr.
Williams. A small collection of mosses from the Jardim
Botanico at Rio Janeiro, Brazil, made by Miss Maria
Bandeira came to us for naming through Dr. Grout. The
Field Museum of Chicago has contributed a large set of
Peruvian mosses, collected by George 8. Bryan which are
still being studied. Four sets of Colombian mosses re-
ceived from the Academy of Natural Sciences in Phila-
delphia, collected by Doctors Pennell and Killip, have
been named and distributed to the subscribers by Mr. R.
S. Williams. Our Porto Riean collections have been
named and one set of the duplicates sent to the Depart-
ment of Agriculture in Porto Rico. We have bought from
Prof. J. M. Holzinger fascicle no. 22 of his Museci Acro-
carpi Boreali Americani. Miscellaneous specimens from
various parts of the United States also have been added,
numbering in all about 625 packets. There still remain
several large collections to be studied; one from Costa
Rica and Panama made by Mr. Paul Standley includes
377 packets. He has also sent us specimens from Salva-
dor, Mexico, and Panama.

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The lantern-slide collection has been supervised, 73
colored slides and 18 uncolored have been added and 8 in
the Stokes loan set; 33 lectures have been given by mem-
bers of the staff and others and 768 slides have been in
use.

Correspondence in connection with the Wild Flower
Preservation work has been increasing so greatly that it
was decided to confine our work to New York State. Lit-
erature, posters, cartoons, and colored illustrations have
been sent to many students and teachers, who have also
received help and advice. The various state chapters of
the Wild Flower Preservation Society have become so
active and entirely self-supporting that they no longer
need our help. We have shared with them our laurel
button and Miss Eaton’s colored plates and outline draw-
ings and the Comstock Publishing Company, of Ithaca,
is issuing the latter for schools and field notebooks in
large quantities at reasonable prices. Miss Mitchell, the
President of the Riverside (Illinois) Chapter, has issued
sets of 12 colored postal cards from original photographs,
half of which were made by L. W. Brownell, an expert
photographer of Paterson, New Jersey. These have been
issued in large quantities at a very reasonable rate and
we are planning to continue with another issue.

The growing of Holly and Winterberry from seed has
been successful and many plants are ready for distribu-
tion. Letters asking for seed of the Fringed Gentian
have been numerous and much exceeded the supply that
Dr. Norton and Dr. Stout found available. The supply
was exhausted by the end of the planting season in No-
vember, but requests have continued all winter and still
are coming.

The Hon. Channing T. Moore has introduced a bill at
Albany which has passed both branches of the Legisla-
ture and has been signed by the Governor, protecting
the Dogwood, Mountain Laurel, and Pink Moccasin-

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flower or Lady’s-slipper. The Arbutus bill was passed
last year. We hope that much publicity will do away with
the outrageous vandalism to which these beautiful native
plants have been subjected and that others will be added
to our state laws.
Respectfully submitted,
LIZABETH G. Brirron,
Honorary Curator

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REPORT OF THE HONORARY CUSTODIAN OF THE
LOCAL HERBARIUM

Dr. N. L. Britron, Drrecror-1n-CHIEF.

Sir: I have the honor of presenting herewith my report
for the year 1925 as Honorary Custodian of the Local
Flora Herbarium.

The work in the Local Flora Room has been carried on,
during the past year, chiefly by Mrs. William Mitchell.
Because of a severe though brief illness early in May, the
Custodian has been unable to do much collecting or to
spend much time on the Herbarium. The Torrey Club
trips have yielded comparatively few specimens. Mrs.
Mitchell has continued the work of plotting the distribu-
tion of species in our Local Area. She has also arranged
for convenient consultation the unmounted sheets of the
Bicknell Herbarium. It is certain that this contains
many duplicate specimens which we shall not wish to
incorporate in our collection; but, whenever we are ready
to examine and add them, it will become necessary to pro-
vide more cases for the Local Herbarium, many of the
pigeonholes being uncomfortably crowded already.

The additions during the past year have been 816
sheets; making rather more than 4,000 in the last four
years.

Respectfully submitted,
M. Denstow,
Honorary Custodian

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REPORT OF THE CHAIRMAN OF THE SCIENTIFIC
DIRECTORS

To THE Boarp or Manacers oF THE New York BorTanican
GARDEN.

Gentlemen: The scientific and educational work of the
Garden has gone forward with increased effectiveness
during the past year and the data are duly recorded in
the report of the Director-in-Chief. Plans for the further
expansion of the Garden’s activities as well as routine
matters concerning the research work of the present staff
have occupied the attention of the Scientific Directors.

The long-continued exploration and studies by mem-
bers of the staff on the flora of the West Indies and South
America are marked by steady achievement. The botan-
ical and geological survey of Porto Rico supported in
part by the insular government is making steady prog-
ress toward completion. With the increasing interest in
forestry problems, especially those concerned with the
hardwood timber supply, the importance of the Garden’s
work on the tropical forests of the western hemisphere is
becoming more and more evident. During the past year
the Garden has been able to give useful assistance in con-
nection with a preliminary survey of the timber resources
of eastern Cuba, which is now being carried on with the
support of various sugar, fruit and railroad companies
whose interests are immediately concerned.

As noted in previous reports it is becoming increas-
ingly evident that the Garden should be prepared to ren-
der a greatly extended service in connection with the
study of the underlying problems of tree breeding, root
growth and forest soils, and soil floras, on the solution of
which the development of a successful national policy of
reforestation will depend.

The need for increased funds to extend the planting of
our present forest collections and arboretum as parent

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stock for breeding experiments is very pressing since the
growing of such breeding stock is a matter of long peri-
ods. Dr. Stout’s interesting results, in his work with
poplars as forest material for the paper pulp industry,
emphasize the need of pushing forward at once the funda-
mental researches in the physiology and pathology of
forest trees by which alone the reasonable safety of ex-
tensive forest planting can be assured.
Respectfully submitted,
R. A. Harper,
Chairman of the Scientific Directors

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FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
EXHIBIT I

BALANCE SHEET

December 31, 1925

Permanent Fund Assets
Cash awaiting investment... uw...

Permanent fund assets expended for

current uses (see current fund lia-
bility per contra)
Current Asset
ash in ba and on hand:
General purposes ........ .... $23,754.95
7,071.47

a purposes

Accounts
oe aaa dividends. ‘Sacewable
(#xhibit IIT)...

Prepaid Insurance Premiums

Ad representing accumulated ex
cess of current exp
eceive

Balance - ee nuary
giving e

agers and Executive Committee, and

minor adjustments
ee aie of expen

in for
ber 31, om rahe bit I

receivable—city mainten-

enditures over

1, 1925 (after
effect to transfer aggregating
$159,877.19 from permanent funds

he ‘ f Man-

nastares. over
e year — ecem-

$1,519,782.04

15,846.70
$1,535,628.74

49,546.68
$1,585,175.42
$ 30,826.42
10,210.83
22,538.73
$ 63,575.98
1,074.99
$ 64,650.97
465.52
3,315.79

3,781.31
68,432.28

$1,653 607.70

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EXHIBIT I
BALANCE SHEET

December 31, 1985
aie lee Funds:
rieted endowments ..$ 154,367.47
oo endowments, including “‘aneonditional
bequests set aside by the Board of Managers

as permanent funds 1,413,807.95
Special endowments with life interests in respect
of income therefrom 17,000.00
tal (Exhibit IV) $1,585,175.42
Current Liabilities and Special Funds:
ent liabilities:
ccoun ee $8 11,544.13
Special fun

Unexpented income from _ restricted
ifaeendet income from contributions
set aside by the Board of Managers

for @ Specific PUTPOSE nn oe coenssnesmene 5,000.00
Total (Exhibit V) 7,071.47
Deferred income credits
Membership dues paid in advance... cence. cee 270.00
Total current liabilities and special funds ....... $ 18,885.60
Indebtedness to permanent funds for canes
0

f fund assets for Current USCS on cee eee eter oe 49,546.68
—_——_ 68,432.28

$1,653,607.70

EXHIBIT II

Statement of Operations for the Year Ending December $1, 1925

Income:
Income from investments of
fie unds..

nua,
sists ing

Sales of plants,
books

duplicate

Subscriptions “and sales of
Publications reece

Total iNcoMe....... sue

Exp
Maintenance
expen
Salaries
hief,
Garden

and general

of Dire
assistants
staff

ector-in-
and

Materials and aupplies......
Stationery, printing, BOSE

Miscellaneous ;
Expenses in connection
with igus of
aveaea t and a
ment fund

ba hea and exhibits:
Improv — to buildings

gro
eee a aes pur-
chased .

Library books, , bindings, ete.
Museum specimens
Plant purelases

Botanical “explorations...
Botanical collections

Education and research:
Pu a ic lectures ee instrue-

Scholarships, Pee CO.

Investigation and preserva:
tion of native plants..

Total expenses ue

Excess or ‘deficiency of in-
come over pens for the
ear

City Restricted
|maintenance| General special Total
unds

$64,253.56) $ 7,250.73| $ 71,504.29
$207,871.49] 3,441.22 5,000.00] 216,312.71
13,790.00 13,790.00
475.00 "475. 00
1,389.54 1,389.54
3,221.20 1,971.07 5,192.27
$207,871.49) $86,570.52) $14,221.80] $308,663.81
$142,698.45 $34,291.75 $ 3,600.00 $180,590.20
12 "796. 80| 21,159.60 33,956.40
52,376.24| 3,829.471F 56,205.71
1,654.50 1,654.50
223.38 223.38
1,119.43 1,119.43
6,745.62 6,745.62
5,163.61 5,163.61
$207,871.49|$74,187.36| $ 3,600.00) $285,658.85
$ 4,922.47] $ 4,922.47
294.82 294.89
1,556.77| $ 708.09]> 2,264.86
30.27 187.07/6 217.34
834.53 345.23] » 1,179.76
100.00} 3 100.00
515.658 515.65
$ 8,154.51! $ 1,340.39) $ 9,494.90
$ 1,431.54] - $ 1,431.54
250.00)’ 250.00
5, 768, 90) « - $ 3,449,091. 9,211.99
0.00 142.85] © 242.85
117.02 117.02
$ 7,544.44] $ 3,708.96] $ 11,253.40
$207,871.49) $89,886.31] $ 8,649.35] $306,407.15
$*3,315.79| $ 5,572.45| $ 2,256.66

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EXHIBIT III

Summary of Investments December 81, 1925

Aver-
age
: eru :
Par Approximate Book interest and | Yield
market ra on
value value value dividends :
” Dee. 31, 1925 era
book
value
sie funds:
ac .1|$ 565,000.00] $ 538,606.75] $ 550,490.11 $ 7,681.66/4.66%
Bu
Denied ie 10,000.00 10,612.50 10,227.50 150.0015.87%
$ 575,000.00} $ 549,219.25] $ 560,717.61 $ 7,831.66/4.68%
Sage Fund
Bonds $ 570,000.00) $ 541,425.00} $ 510,458.81 $10,028.74 15.23%
Stocks:
aah 55,000.00 ,400.00 48,121.87 — 54%
ae 70,200.00 128,760.00 90,825.00 1,620.00 7 13%
$ 695,200.00| $ 728,585.00] $ 649,405.68) $11,648.74|5.70%
Endowment and
Development
Bonds S .1$ 220,000.00] $ 219,462.50) $ 220,158.75 $ 2,708.33/5.22%
Sto
Coney - 60,000.00 72,850.00 72,500.00 350.0015.79%
$ 280,000.00) $ 292,312.50) $ 292,658.75 $ 3,058.33 /5.36%
Ss Trust
‘und :
ro ates All
Am a Ca- {
Bice. tae
stock lune $ 17,000.00} $ 21,930.00! $ 17,000.00 —_— 7.00%
$1,567 ,200.00' $1,592,046.75 $1,519 ,782.04 $22,538.73 |5.26%

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Statement of Permanent Funds Showing ee During the Year Ending
Dec 925

Restricted endowments:
Endowment for science:

ane Fund.

‘un

Ol E. and Caroline
Phelps ce Fund...

yee Budd Robinson

The “L H. Memorial
Fund .

|
|
ter endow-

Endowment Fun
David Lydig Fund. |
Students’ Resea reh

und ......
William R. Sands Fund:
Darius Ogden ae

Henry Iden Fund |

Fanny Bridgham Fund:
ae Lynde Stetson’

Rossell Sage a and Mar-
0 Sage

dig Daly Fun

Special endowments:
The Charles Patrick
ae :

di
Special Ty st und.

EXHIBIT IV
ember 31,
Balance at | Additions | Deductions |
Jan, 1, 1925
;
|
$ 89,065.49 $ 50.00
21,149.31
10,347
25,000.00
3,000.00
T5504
5,000.00
$ 149,317.47 & 5,050.00
|
1 $ 316,047.08; $ 500.00 $ 88,533.54
4,337.86)
4,632.00; 144.00
10,000.00
48,099.17
10,000.00
30,000.00
25,000.00
766,198.66' 14,684.36 71,343.65
2,000.00 304.67
3,000.00; 289,101.00
19,636.34
$1,249,314.77) $324,370.37 *$159,877.19
The (pe —
roy 463
$ 19,636.34 $ 19,636.34
17,000.00
$ 36,636.34 $ 19,636.34

$1,435,268.58] $329,420.37

$179,513.53

Balance

Dec. 31, 1925

$ 89,115.49
21,149.31
10,347.63
25,000.00

3,000.00
755.04

5,000.00

$ 154,367.47

$ 228,013.54
4,776.00
10,000.00
48,099.17
10,000.00
30,000.00

25,000.00

709,539.37
2,304.67
292,101.00

19,636.34

~ $1,413,807.95

$ 17,000.00
$ 17,000.00

$1,585,175.42

* Transfers to current fund deficiency account.

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EXHIBIT V

SPEcIaL FUNDS
Statement of Application of Income From Restricted Permanent Funds and
Special Contributed Funds Designated for Specific Purpos

Balance at ae Expendi- | Balance at
Jan, 1, 1925 Additions tures Dec. 31, 1925

Restricted Permanent Funds:
En

dowm ne for science and
edue
Publi oe tees fn a

uction, research a:
Publications. other Giga
“¢ Addisonia’ $ 270.27 $4,270.36] $4,093.12 $ 447.51

Addison Brown Fund:
Publication of ‘*Addi-
664.59 2,985.11; $3,149.87 499.83

J i
ae pene and ex-
penses 261.34 496.13 312.00 445.47

Maria De Witt Je esup ‘Fund:
Botanical collections ....... 1,198.69 877.34 821.35

vation of native ee 174.76 143.83 117.02 201.57
Charles Budd Robinson

und:
Exploratio 128.06 36.97 100.00 65.03
The H. H. Memorial Fund:
i ae of model
gar Peer: 90.71 90.71

$1,499.02 $9,221.80] $8,649.35 $2,071.47

Special Funds contributed for
specific purposes:
Helen ©. Inslee bequest
designated by the Board
f an

Bridge Entrancee.......cccccco $5,000.00 $5,000.00

CERTIFICATE OF AUDITORS

We have examined the books and accounts of The New York Botanical
Garden for the year ending December 31, 1925, and certify that the attached
balance sheet (Exhibit I) and ee statements (Exhibits II to V inclusive)
are correctly prepared therefrom, and, in our opinion, set forth the financial posi-
tion of the corporation as at December 31, 1925, and a summary of the trans-
actions for the year ended on fia date.

Prick, WATERHOUSE & Co.

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REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON PATRONS,
FELLOWS AND MEMBERS FOR
THE YEAR 1925

To THE Boarp or Manacers or THe New Yorr Boranicau
ARDEN.

Gentlemen: The number of new members who have
qualified is 172. The number of annual members is now
1,502; life members 125; sustaining members 19.

Of the annual members 51 are now in arrears for dues
for 1925, 26 for dues for 1924 and 1925, 21 for dues for
1923, 1924, and 1925.

Dues have been collected to the amount of $14,535.

Two persons have qualified as life members by the pay-
ment of $250 each. These sums have been transmitted
to the treasurer.

A complete list of all classes of members to date is
herewith submitted.

BENEFACTORS
*Mrs. Fanny Bridgham, *D. O. Mills,

*Hon. Addison Brown,
* Andrew Carnegie,
Columbia University,
*Hon. Charles P. Daly,
Daniel Guggenheim,
Murry Guggenheim,

Oakes Ames,
*Miss Catherine A. Bliss,
Dr. N. L. Britton,
*Hon. Addison Brown,
* Andrew Carnegie,

*Mrs. George Whitfield Collord,

*Mrs. Louisa Combe,
* Deceased.

*J. Pierpont Morgan, Sr.
John D. Rockefeller,
John D. Rockefeller, Jr.,

*Mrs. Russell Sage,

*Francis Lynde Stetson,

*Cornelius Vanderbilt.

PATRONS

*James M. Constable,
Charles Deering,
*William E. Dodge,
James B. Ford,
*George J. Gould,
Edward S. Harkness,
*Mrs. Esther Herrman,

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Frederick Trevor Hill, *Lowell M. Palmer,
Archer M. Huntington, *William Rockefeller,
*Henry Iden, *William R. Sands,
*Mrs. Helen C. Inslee, * William C. Schermerhorn,
Mrs. John Innes Kane, *James A. Scrymser,
*John Stewart Kennedy, Mrs. Finley J. Shepard,
*Mrs. Mary J. Kingsland, “ *Samuel Sloan,
Prof. Frederic S. Lee, *Mrs. Frederick F. Thompson.
Mrs. Frederic S. Lee, *W. K. Vanderbilt,
*J. Pierpont Morgan, Sr., Mrs. Antoinette Eno Wood.

*Oswald Ottendorfer,

FrEuLows For Lire

Edward D. Adams, Prof. Frederic S. Lee,
George F. Baker, Mrs. Frederic 8. Lee,
Miss Elizabeth Billings, Ogden Mills,

Mrs. W. Bayard Cutting, J.P. Morgan,

Dr. Robert W. de Forest, Mrs. Lewis R. Morris,
Cleveland H. Dodge, E. A. Richard,

James B. Ford, Mrs. John A. Roebling,
Daniel Guggenheim, Mortimer L. Schiff,
Murry Guggenheim, Leon Schinasi,

8. R. Guggenheim, Miss Olivia E. Phelps Stokes,
William Halls, Jr., Charles G. Thompson,
Mrs. Stephen V. Harkness, Louis C. Tiffany,

Mrs. William L. Harkness, Tiffany & Company.

Mrs. John Stewart Kennedy,

Lire MEMBERS

Edward D. Adams, Aurel Batonyi,

Dr. Felix Adler, Gustav Baumann,

Mrs. James Herman Aldrich, Samuel R. Betts,

Dr. 8. T. Armstrong, William G. Bibb,
Edward W. C. Arnold, Miss Elizabeth Billings,
Mrs. Hugh D. Auchincloss, Mrs. Robert Wocds Bliss,
Dr. John Hendley Barnhart, George Blumenthal,
George A. Barron, G. T. Bonner,

* Deceased.

Mrs. Addison Brown,
J. Hull Browning,
Mrs. Andrew Carnegie,
T. Morris Carnegie,
Miss Marian Roby Case, “
Frank R. Chambers,
Hugh J. Chisholm,
Hugh J. Chisholm, Jr.,
George C. Clark,
Banyer Clarkson,
Dr. James B. Clemens,
William F. Cochran,

0€,
William Colgate,
Miss Georgette T. A. Collier,
W. E. Conner,
Mrs. F. A. Constable,
S. Wilbur Corman,
R. N. Cranford,
Melville C. Day,
Charles Deering,
Mrs. John Ross Delafield,
Maturin L. Delafield,
W. B. Dickerman,
Miss Josephine W. Drexel,
Miss Ethel DuBois,
William A. DuBois,
George E. Dunscombe,
Thomas Dwyer,
George Ehret,
Ambrose K. Ely,
Dr. John F. Erdmann,
Edward J. Farrell,
Marshall Field,
Mrs. H. J. Fisher,
Andrew Fletcher,
Charles R. Flint,
Eugene G. Foster,

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Mrs. John French,
Childs Frick,

Mrs. Theodore Kane Gibbs,
Daniel Guggenheim,
Bernard G. Gunther,
Franklin L. Gunther,
Charles J. Harrah,
Dr. Louis Haupt,

R. Somers Hayes,
John Hubbard,
Archer M. Huntington,
Frank D. Hurtt,
James H. Hyde,

Mrs. Columbus O’D. Iselin,
Dr. Walter B. James,
Miss Annie B. Jennings,
Mrs. David J. Kelley,
Nathaniel T. Kidder,

H. R. Kunhardt,

W. B. Kunhardt,
Charles Lanier,

W. V Lawrence,

Mrs. George Lewis,
Joseph Loth,

William H. Maev, Jr.,
Louis Marshall,

Edgar L. Marston,
Wilham J. Matheson,

C. W. McAlpin, -

Dr. George N. Miller,

A. G. Mills,

Mrs. William F. Milton,
Dr. Lewis R. Morris,
Newbold Morris,
Sigmund Neustadt,

A. Lanfear Norrie,
Gordon Norrie,

George M. Olcott,

i

Mrs. Charles Tyler Olmstead,

William Church Osborn,
W. H. Perkins,

Curt C. Pfeiffer,
Gustavus A. Pfeiffer,

M. Taylor Pyne,

John J. Riker,

J. C. Rodgers,

Thomas F. Ryan,

Mrs. Herbert L. Satterlee,
Dr. Reginald H. Sayre,
Edward C. Schaefer,
Mortimer L. Schiff,

Mrs. J. Blair Scribner,
George Sherman,

James Shewan,

James Speyer,

SUSTAINING

Miss Elizabeth Billings,
Miss Mary T. Bryce,
Mrs. F. J. Godsol,

John Greenough,

Mrs. De C. Hawkes,
oO. H. K

Mrs. ee on Krollpfeiffer,

Edgar L. Marston,
George Grant Mason,
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Rowland Hazard,

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David Helier,

Henry Hellman,

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Richard M. Hoe,

Mrs. Richard March Hoe,
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Miss Mary U. Hoffman,
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Charles H. Hoole,

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C. J. Housman,

Thomas H. Howard,
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M. D. Howell,

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Lewis McB. Hubbard,

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Jeremiah Hunter,
Henry E. Huntington,
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H. D. Hutchins,

R. G. Hutchins,

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A. F.

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William B. Jenkins,

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George 8. Jephson,

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Gilbert H. Johnson,

J. Herbert Johnston,

Francis C. Jones,

Rodney Wilcox Jones,

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Louis M. Josephthal,

Paul P. Juley,

Henry XM. Kahle,

Mrs. Julie Kahle,

Felix E. Kahn,

H. Kamber,

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Frank E. Karelsen, Jr.

Mrs. F. W. Kavenaugh,

Mrs. Charles Kaye,

Mrs. H. F. Kean,

Mrs. Frank Browne Keech

Henry F. Keil,

William W. Kelchner,

Nicholas Kelley,

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J. Francis G. Landon,

i Roe W. Keyes, Mrs. Woodbury G. Langdon,
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S. E. Kilner, Aaron Langstadter,

Van Evrie Kilpatrick, Mrs. John J. Lapham,
Abel King, Lewis H. Lapham,
Darwin P. Kingsley, John Burling Lawrence,
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Warren Kinney, Layng,

W. Ruloff Kip, Henry Goddard Leach,
Dr. William B. Kirkham, Mrs. George Leary,

Mrs. Gustav E. Kissel, Lederle Antitoxin Laboratories,
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W. J. Knapp, George Legg,

Mrs. Charles E. Knoblauch, James M. oe

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Roland F. Knoedler, Miss Maud ae Leland,
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Dr. Samuel J. Kopetsky, Dr. L. M. Lesser,

Mrs. Max Kops, George Levi,

Arthur Korth, B. E. Levy,

Mrs. Claude Kress, Mrs. Louis 8S. Levy,
Samuel H. Kress, Willy Levy,

Richard G. Krueger, Adolph Lewisohn,

George L. Kumpf, Mrs. Allan Lexow,

Dr. George F. Kunz, Dr. Charles C. Lieb,

A. H. Kursheedt, E. K. Lincoln,

Anthony R. Kuser, Mrs. Frederic W. Lincoln,
Adolf Kuttroff, Henry D. Lindsley,

Dr. William 8. Ladd, Arthur H. Lippincott,
Arthur F. Lafrentz, Frederick J. Lisman,

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Siegfried Littauer,
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Mrs. William C. Lobenstine,
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Mrs. Luke Vincent Lockwood,

Mrs. William A. Lockwood,
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Homer L. Loomis,

Lord & Burnham Co.,
P. Lorillard, Jr.,

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Mrs. Seth Low,

James B. Lowell,

Mrs. Clarence M. Lowes,
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C. G. Lueder,

KE. L. Lueder,

William M. Lybrand,

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Miss Grace G. Lyman,
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James B. Mabon,

John F. MacEnulty,
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V_ Everit Macy,

F. Robert Mager,

J. H. Maghee,

Miss Helaine Magnus,

Leon A. Malkiel,

Edward Mallinckrodt, Jr.,
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Dr. Morris on
J.G.C.M

Mrs. H. ae Manville,
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Mrs. Francis H. Markoe,
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Harry Mayer,

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Tompkins McIlvaine,

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W. A. McLaren,

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H. E. Meeker,

Mrs. T. M. R. Meikelham,
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Mrs. 8. Stanwood Mencken,
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Miss Ella J. Merrifield,
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I. J. Merritt,

William F. Meschenmoser,
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David Metzger,

Arthur 8. Meyer,

Charles G. Meyer,

Eugene Meyer, Jr.,

Mrs. Albert G. Milbank,
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= Milton Mitchill, Jr.,
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John Monks,

H. de la Montagne, Jr.,
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ictor Morawetz,
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Harold Nathan,

National Association, Boards of
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Mrs. Elsie M. B. Naumberg,

A. G. Nesbitt,

Mrs. Russell H. Nevins,

Miss Edith Newbold,

Frederic R. Newbold,

Stephen L. Newman,

George D. Nicholas,

Mrs. Acosta Nichols,

William B. Nichols,

Mrs. William G. Nichols,

William H. Nichols,

Mrs. Hoffman Nickerson,

Mrs. Benjamin Nicoll,

William Nilsson,

Dr. Charles Norris,

Miss Fanny Norris,

George Notman,

Howard Notman,

Mrs. Frank Brett Noyes,

L. W. Nuttall,

Miss Dorothy Oak,

Morgan J. O’Brien,

Mrs. Adolph Obrig,

Mrs. Clinton Ogilvie,
Mrs. Ponsonby Ogle,
P. M. Ohmeis,

Miss Catherine Okie,
E

tt,

Miss Mary Olcott,

Elam Ward Olney,

Robert Olyphant,

John B. O'Reilly,

William C. Orr,

Mrs. Charles E. Orvis,

Prof. Henry F. Osborn,
iram Osborn,

Mrs. William Church Osborn,

Charles K. Ovington,

Miss Elizabeth H. Packard,

Mrs. Eugene H. Paddock,

Mrs. Jean Aitken Paddock,

A. E. Merriman Paff,

Mrs. Augustus G. Paine,

Mrs. Martha T. Palmer,

Ignaz Panzer,

Mrs. John W. Paris,

Henry Parish,

Mrs. Hobart J. Park,

Junius Parker,

Mrs. Willard Parker, Jr.,

Winthrop Parker,

Charles W. Parsons,

Mrs. Edgerton Parsons,

Miss Gertrude Parsons,

Mrs. Joseph Parsons,

Mrs. J. Graham Parsons,

Miss Katherine de B. Parsons,

Miss Mary Parsons,

W. U. Parsons,

Rufus L. Patterson,

T. H. Hoge Patterson,

James G. Patton,

Mrs. Foster Paul,

J. R. Paull,

Mrs. Horace E. Payson,

Mrs. Charles A. Peacock,

Mrs. Frederick Pearson,

Charles E. Peck,

Dr. Charles H. Peck,
William Halsey Peck,

Mrs. Wheeler H. Peckham,

B. Henry Pelzer,

Miss Isabelle Pendleton,
J.C. Penney Foundation,
Comtesse de Périgny,
Miss Hattie W. Perkins,
Mrs. F. A. C. Perrine,
W.R. Peters,

Walter Peterson,

Carl Sehurz Petrasch,
Mrs. William C. Peyton,
Arthur Pforzheimer,
Carl H. Pforzheimer,
Walter Pforzheimer,
Mason M. Phelps,

Mrs. Sheffield Phelps,

W. Paul Pickhardt,
Henry Clay Pierce,
Winslow S. Pierce,

Mrs. R. Stuyvesant Pierrepont,

J. Fred Pierson,
Mrs. J. O. H. Pitney,

Mrs. Charles Howard Platt,

Mrs. Frank H. Platt,

Alfred F. Poggenburg,
Rudolph Pokorny,
Miss R. A. Polhemus,
Frank L. Polk,

Miss Florence L. Pond,

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Charles Lane Poor,

Mrs. James Harper Poor,
James HE. Pope,

Mrs. William C. Popper,
Alexander J. Porter,

Mrs. Frank B. Porter, Jr.,
H. Hobart Porter,

Abram 8. Post,

Miss Blanche Potter,

Mrs. Frank H. Potter,

Dr. Lilian Delger Powers,
John H. Powrie,

Rev. Dr. William Prall,
Mrs. C. H. Pratt,

Mrs. Hebert Lee Pratt,

Edgar 8. Pretzfeld,
Mrs. E. F. Price,
Julius Prince,

H. B. Prindle,

R. L. Pritchard,
Elias W. Pulaski,
Mrs. Kate Davis Pulitzer,
Miss Eva C. Putney,
Robert Pyle,

Percy R. Pyne,
Charles F. Quincy,
I. A. Rabinow,
Samuel Raisler,

S. E. Ramsdell,
Stanley Ranger,
William T. Rasmus,
Eugene A. Rau,

G. B. Raymond,

H. E. Raymond,
Mrs. Henry R. Rea,
Newbury Frost Read,

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Mrs. William A. Read,
Robert C. Ream,

Mrs. Louis J. Reckford,
Miss Emily Redmond,
Henry H. Reed,

Mrs. Augusta Bliss Reese,
John Reid,

Franklin Remington,
William Remsen,
William Rennult,

Samuel W. Reyburn,
Mrs. E. S. Reynal,

Mrs. H. Newell Reynolds,
Mrs. H. 8. Reynolds,
Thomas A. Reynolds,
Miss N. Rhoades,

Miss Elvine Richard,
Osear L. Richard,

Miss Edith G. Richards,
Ellis G. Richards,

E. O. Richards,
Frederick Rider,

Mrs. Robert Ridgway,
Dr. Abraham Rieger,
Mrs. Samuel Riker, Jr.,
Dr. A. I. Ringer,

G. Barclay Rives,

Dr. William C. Rives,
Miss Emeline Roach,
Mrs. Charles H. Roberts,
Irving Bruce Roberts,
Louis J. Robertson,

A. G. Robinson,

Mrs. Douglas Robinson,
Mrs. Monroe D. Robinson,
Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.,
Percy A. Rockefeller,
Nash Rockwood,

F. L. Rodewald,

John Roger,

Hubert E. Rogers,

A. J. Rolle,

W. Emlen Roosevelt,
Mrs. W. Emlen Roosevelt,
Elihu Root,

Miss Rosalie Rosenberg,
Henry C. Ross,

Peter W. Rouss,

William Edwin Rudge,
J. Louis A. Ruhl,

Justus Ruperti,

Jacob Ruppert,

Frederick K. Rupprecht,
Miss M. L. Russell,

John Barry Ryan,
William J. Ryan,

Arthur Ryle,

Miss Julia Ryle,

Harry Sachs,

Samuel Sachs,

Mrs. Henry W. Sackett,
Reuben Sadowsky,

Mrs. T. Shaw Safe,

Mrs. Walter J. Salmon,
Charles E. Sampson,
Mrs. Ralph Samuel,
Mitchell Samuels,

H. Sanhagen,

Mrs. Frederick A. Sansome,
F. A. Sarg,

Miss G. W. Sargent,
Herbert L. Satterlee,
Mrs. Herbert L. Satterlee,
Mrs. Thomas E. Satterthwaite,

Mrs. Theodore Sattler,
Oliver H. Sawyer,
Hermann Schaaf,
Frederick Miiller Schall,

O. Boto Schellberg,

Dr. Bela Schick,

Dr. William J. Schieffelin,
Charles A. Schieren,
Gustave H. Schiff,

Max Sehling, Inc.,

Miss Jane E. Schmelzel,
Emil Schmitz,

Armand Schmoll,

D. Schnakenberg,
Berthold Schnee,

Harry Schneider,
Henrich Schniewind, Jr.,

William Schongalla,
Mrs. Anthony Schulte,
Richard Schuster,

Mrs. C. Albert Schwab,
C. M. Schwab,

Miss Emily Schwab,
M. Charles Schweinert,
Miss Marion Scofield,
Mrs. Frank Hall Scott,
Walter Scott,

Miss Grace Scoville,
Herbert Scoville,
Robert Scoville,

Mrs. Arthur H. Scribner,
Edward M. Seudder,
Hewlett Scudder,

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Mrs. Joseph H. Seaman,
Alonzo B. See,

Edwin Sefton,

Prof. Edwin R. A. Seligman,
Mrs. Isaac N. Seligman,
Jefferson Seligman,

Mrs. Norrie Sellar,

Mrs. Charles H. Senff,
Frederick W. Senff,
Alfred Seton,

Frank G. Shattuck,

Mrs. Quincy A. Shaw,
Mrs. William F. Sheehan,
Dr. William H. Sheldon,
Finley J. Shepard,
David Shiman,

Mrs. Arthur Ll. Shipman,
George W. Short,

Frank R. Shull,

Hiram W. Sibley,

Mrs. J. Siegel,

Samuel M. Siegman,
Benjamin F. Simmons,
Charles H. Simmons,

Alfred L. Simon,
Franklin Simon,
Horace EB. Simon,
Robert E. Simon,

Mrs. Roswell Skeel, Jr.,
Francis Louis Slade,
Dr. George N. Slattery,
Ralph H. Slaven,
Benson B. Sloan,
Samuel Sloan,

Thomas W. Slocum,
Thomas Smidt,

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Daniel Smiley,

Mrs. Charles Herbert Smith,
Charles R. Smith,

Mrs. Charles Stewart Smith,
E. C. Smith,

Miss Fanny A. Smith,
James B. Smith,

J. Milton Smith,

Mrs. Milton Smith, Jr.,
Dr. Nelson Smith,

Pierre J. Smith,

Mrs. R. Penn Smith, Jr.,
Mrs. John W. Smyth,
Frederick Snare,

E. G. Snow,

Frederic A. Soldwedel,
Phineas Sondheim,
William M. Spackman,
Mrs. H. B. Spalding,

Mrs. Edward W. Sparrow,
Mrs. Joseph McK. Speer,
Mrs. Gino C. Speranza,
Edgar Speyer,

Mrs. B. G. Spiegelberg,
Mrs. William F. Stafford,
Mrs. Alice Dana Stanley,
A. T. Stanley,

Howard W. Starr,

E. Vail Stebbins,

Mrs. J. Rich Steers,

Mrs. Mary P. Eno Steffanson,
Louis Steinam

William H. Steinkamp,
Fred T. Steinway,
William R. Steinway,
Olin J. Stephens,
Roderick Stephens,
Benjamin Stern,

Sereno Stetson,

Edward R. Stettinius,
Mrs. Byam K. Stevens,
Frederic W. Stevens,
Lispenard Stewart,

Mrs. George J. Stier,
Miss Bessie Stillman,

Cc. C. Stillman,

Ralph George Stoddard,

Mrs. Charles H. Stout,
Mrs. Franklin D. L. Stowe,
Mrs. Willard Straight,

J. A. Strasser,

H. Grant Straus,

Mrs. Nathan Straus, Jr.,
Roger W. Straus,
Albert Strauss,

Mrs. Daisy Strauss,
Frederick Strauss,

Miss Henriette Strauss,
Martin Strauss,

Samuel Strauss,
Wiliam H. Strawn,
Miss Florence E. Strickland,
Dr. George T. Strodl,
Mrs. Gustaf Stromberg,
Benjamin Strong,

John R. Strong,

Nat. C. Strong,

Richard A. Strong,

Mrs. Theron G. Strong,
Joseph Stroock,

Louis 8. Stroock,
Duncan Struthers,
Francis Lee Stuart,
Frank K. Sturgis,

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Mrs. Paul Sturtevant,
Mrs. James Sullivan,
Frank M. Swacker,
Harry Swan,

Mrs. J. Andrews Swan,
Dr. F. J. Swanson,
Maurice Switzer,

Miss Mary Taber,
Henry W. Taft,

Miss Selby Tanner,
Edwin Tatham,

Moses Taylor,

Charles G. Taylor,
Henry R. Taylor,

Dr. Richard A. Taylor,
W. A. Taylor,

Miss Gertrude M. Telke,
H. L. Terrell,

Mrs. John T. Terry,
Mrs. Thomas Thacher,
Mrs. T. D. Thacher,
Mrs. Bayard Thayer,

H. B. Thayer,

E. Thiele,

Mrs. H. M. Thomas,
Mrs. Hector W. Thomas,
Mrs. Howard L. Thomas,
Percival Thomas,

L. S. Thompson,
William B. Thompson,
Dr. W. Gilman Thompson,
Mrs. William Reed Thompson,
John C. Thorn,

Mrs. Edwin Thorne,
Samuel Thorne,
Sherman Thursby,
Louis C. Tiffany,

Henry N. Tifft,

Mrs. Henry M. Tilford,

Dr. Walter Timme,

R. H. Timmermann,

James Timpson,

Mrs. Edward R. Tinker,
Mrs. Norman E. Titus,
Mrs. Margaret T. Tjader,
J. Kennedy Tod,

Edward R. Tolfree,

W. C. Tragesor,

Mrs. John B. Trevor,

John Trounstine,

E. Kellogg Trowbridge,
Carll Tucker,

Paul Tuckerman,

George E. Turnure,

Harry F. Turtle,

Mrs. Mary A. Tuttle,

Mrs. Charles H. Tweed,
Mrs. Alice B. Tweedy,
Lucien H. Tyng,

August Uhl,

Mrs. Walter M. Underhill,
Miss Martha C. Vail,

Mrs. Henry C. Valentine,
Miss Marguerite E. Valentine,
Miss Myra Valentine,
Augustus Van Cortlandt,
William H. Vanderbilt,
Francis 8. van der Veer,
Barend van Gerbig,

Mrs. Stephen G. Van Hoesen,
Miss Anne H. Van Ingen,
Miss Louise Van Ingen,
Dr. Philip Van Ingen,
Mrs. Warner M. Van Norden,
Mrs. E. van Raalte,

Mrs. Louisa Van Wezel,

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Mrs. Wilbur Linwood Varian,
Mrs. James M. Varnum,

Mrs. A. C. Veatch,

Thomas F. Vietor,

Ludwig Vogelstein,

Mrs. Owen M. Voight,

Dr. Antonie P. Voislawsky,
Mrs. Anna M. von Zedlitz,
Frederick K. Vreeland,
Montgomery Waddell,

Mrs. W. Austin Wadsworth,
Dr. A. F. Wahl,

Mrs. J. Howard Wainwright,
Justus I. Wakelee,

Mrs. Joseph Walker, Jr.,
Miss Miriam Dwight Walker,
Stuart Walker,

Mrs. W. K. Wallbridge,
Alfred Wallerstein,

Leo Wallerstein,

Dr. Max Wallerstein,

Mrs. Frederick A. Wallis,
William I. Walter,

Dr. Francis R. Ward,

Dr. Freeman Ford Ward,

A. L. D. Warner,

Mrs. John I. Waterbury,

C. W. Watson,

Harry Wearne,

Mrs. E. H. Weatherbee,
Mrs. V. Webb,

Mrs. W. Seward Webb,
Jules Weber,

Mrs. Orlando F. Weber,
Mrs. Hamilton Fish Webster,
Mrs. Alden H. Weed,

Miss Alice D. Weekes,

Dr. Eugene Wehmeyer,
George A. Weigel,

Mrs. Harriet Weil,

Mrs. Walter L. Weil,

Mrs. Charles Weiss,

S. J. Weiss,

Mrs. Samuel W. Weiss,
Mrs. William S. Weiss,
Mrs. John Wells,

William Y. Wemple,

Miss Edith Wetmore,

Mrs. Frederick S. Wheeler,
Mrs. George C. Wheeler,
Dr. Wm. E. Wheelock,
Miss Caroline White,

Miss Edith Hamilton White,
Mrs. E. Lawrence White,

Clarence Whitman,

Mrs. Arnold Whitridge,
Miss Joan Whitridge,
Howard Whittemore,

F. B. Wiborg,

Mrs. D. O. Wickham,
Walter R. Wilder,

Ernest J. Wile,

Dr. Ira 8. Wile,

C. Robert Wilhelm,
Elmore A. Willets,

J. Macey Willets,

Mrs. Charles B. Williams,
Mrs. Percy H. Williams,
Richard H. Williams,
William H. Williams,
Mrs. G. De Witt Williamson,

W. P. Willis,

James R. Williston,

Mrs. L. K. Wilmerding,
Mrs. Ernest H. Wilson,
Dr. Margaret B. Wilson,
M. Orme Wilson,

Orme Wilson, Jr.,
Charles A. Wimpfheimer,
Jesse Winburn,

Harold Wingate,
Bronson Winthrop,
Grenville L. Winthrop,
Mrs. Robert Winthrop,
John C. Wister,

Mrs. Frank 8. Witherbee,
Joseph Wittman,

Dr. William H. Woglom,
Lewis 8. Wolff,

M. Wolff,

Mrs. T. Wolfson,

Ernest Wolwitz,

Miss Martha E. Woodbury,

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Mrs. William H. Woodin,
Chauncey C. Woodworth,
Park M. Woolley,

Mrs. I. Maurice Wormeer,
Martin Wortmann,

Miss Julia Wray,
Richardson Wright,
Gustave A. Wuefel,

Mrs. A. ee Young,
Owen D. Youn

Mrs. Cornelius na Zabriskie,
George A. Zabriskie,
Henry C. Zaro,

Charles H. Zehnder,
Miss Jessie Ziegler,
Albert G. Zimmerman,
August Zinsser,

Charles Zoller,

Mrs. Osear F. Zollikoffer,
Henry Zuckerman.

MemsBers or THE ADvisonY CouNCIL

Mrs. Robert Bacon,

Miss Elizabeth Billings,
Mrs. Edward C. Bodman,
Mrs. N. L. Britton,

Mrs. Andrew Carnegie,

Mrs. Frederick A. Constable,
M

rs. Charles D. Dickey,
Mrs. John W. Draper,

Miss Elizabeth S. Hamilton,

Mrs. A. Barton Hepburn,
Mrs. Robert C. Hill,

Mrs. Frederick C. Hodgdon,
Mrs. Walter Jennings,
Mrs. Bradish Johnson,

Mrs. Delancey Kane,

Mrs. Gustav E. Kissel,
Mrs. Frederic 8. Lee,
Mrs. William A. Lockwood,
Mrs. A. A. Low,

Mrs. David Ives Mackie,
Mrs. Pierre Mali,

Mrs. Henry Marquand,
Mrs. Roswell Miller,

Mrs. Wheeler H. Peckham,
Mrs. George W. Perkins,
Mrs. Harold I. Pratt,

Mrs. Wm. Kelly Prentice,
Mrs. James Roosevelt,

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Mrs. Arthur H. Scribner, Mrs. W. Gilman Thompson,
Mrs. Theron G. Strong, Mrs. Harold M. Turner,
Mrs. Henry O. Taylor, Mrs. George Cabot Ward,
Mrs. John T. Terry, Mrs. William H. Woodin.

Honorary MEMBrERs oF THE ADVISORY COUNCIL
Mrs. E. Henry Harriman, Mrs. James A. Scrymser,
Mrs. John I. Kane, Miss Olivia E. P. Stokes.

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THE NEW YORK
BOTANICAL GARDEN

ISSUED JUNE 8, 1927

CONTENTS

REPORTS FOR THE YEAR 1926
Report of the President
Report of the Secretary and Director-in-Chief —.
Report of the Head Curator of the Museums and Herbarium
Report of the Head Gardener
Report of the Director of the Laboratories
Report of the Bibliographer
Report of the Librarian

Report of the Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds... 2

Report of the Honorary Curator of the Economie Collections
Report of the Paleobotanist
Report of the Honorary Curator of Mosses .-cccccccceesececece
Report of the Honorary Custodian of the Loeal Herbarium
Report of the Chairman of the Board of Scientifie Directors
Report of the Treasurer
Certificate of Auditors
Report of the Committee on Patrons, Fellows, and Members

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REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT FOR THE YEAR 1926

The campaign to increase the Garden’s funds, which
was inaugurated by the Board in November, 1924, has
been conducted quietly throughout the year and has re-
sulted in securing paid contributions, pledges for early
payment, legacies and minor accessions, which together
will increase the endowment by the sum of $1,013,000.
The two leading donors are Mr. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.,
with a gift of $500,000, and Mr. Edward 8S. Harkness,
with one of $300,000. Members of the Board and the Ad-
visory Council have contributed one-tenth of the whole
amount. The total figure, nearly doubling the endow-
ment of 1924, is gratifying, and demonstrates the wisdom
of the Board in authorizing the campaign. The new in-
come thus assured allows provisions in the budget of 1927
for certain long-deserved increases of the salaries of
members of the staff, the appointment of additional staff
members, and the furtherance of other features of the
new plans for development. But the increase of actual
funds is only one of the benefits accruing from the cam-
paign; for it has given an opportunity to make widely
known the Garden’s aspirations, and increase the public
respect for it and the public confidence in its future. The
main lines of its further development have already been
decided upon. Their realization demands the continued
generosity of the city government, and ever increasing
assistance from an appreciative and generous public.
The campaign to obtain at first $4,160,000, as authorized

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in 1924, and ultimately $7,000,000, must be continued.
Approximately one-quarter of the lesser sum has been se-
cured. To stop here would be disastrous to the Garden’s
prestige and the prestige of the Board. The City of New
York is, I believe, capable of raising this institution of its
own making to the premier place among botanical gar-
dens and maintaining it there. It is the duty of the Board
to keep this thought continually before those who can
make it a reality. A pressing need now is $1,000,000 for
the extension of scientific research, of which $400,000
would build, equip, and maintain a new laboratory, and
the income of $600,000 would provide salaries for the de-
sired additional members of the scientific staff.

The question is sometimes asked: ‘‘Why should the
New York Botanical Garden engage in research?’’ It
may not be amiss here to discuss this topic briefly. It is
elemental to say that the present is the age of science,
the age when men have ceased to be content with what has
been and demand greater knowledge of the ways of
nature, new points of view and new aids to living. Scien-
tific research is already revolutionizing human life. Two
of the most striking examples of this are to be found in
medicine and industry. But nowhere is research more
urgently demanded than within the field of plant life,
which is daily and intimately related to human life and
human welfare. In the face of this demand an institution
devoted specifically to plant life could hardly be expected
to remain static, a historical museum, content to bring
together plants from all quarters of the globe, and to
show only what nature has already done with them. In
these modern, progressive days a botanical garden should
be itself modern and progressive, should wring from
nature more intimate secrets, should show how plants
may be made to vield still greater aid to human living
than they have yet vielded. This desirability of research
was clearly recognized by the founders of the Garden at

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its beginning more than thirty years ago, when its pur-
poses, as stated in its Act of Incorporation, included ‘‘the
advancement of botanical science and knowledge, and the
prosecution of original researches therein and in kindred
subjects.’’ In accordance with this purpose one of the
most notable features of its activity through all the past
years has been that of investigation.

The New York Botanical Garden possesses certain dis-
tinct advantages as a center for scientific work: It is situ-
ated in a city which is already recognized as one of the
world’s important scientific centers; its close association
with Columbia University brings it into touch with the
University’s research activities in the basal sciences, such
as physics, biology, and geology, and in the school of
medicine—a touch that is bound to be both inspirational
and helpful in the selection of technical methods of re-
search; it possesses four hundred acres of unusually va-
ried topography, which afford unusually varied oppor-
tunities for the cultivation of living plants; it has abun-
dant space for laboratories and experimental plots; it
contains large collections of varied living plants, in green-
houses and out of doors—an arboretum that is rarely sur-
passed in the number and variety of its trees, a large col-
lection of shrubs, and large and constantly increasing
plantations of herbaceous plants, especially those of hor-
ticultural interest—all of which are available as material
for research; it has an extensive library of botanical lit-
erature; its scientific directors are recognized men of
science, permeated by the spirit of research and with a
broad vision into its future; its staff is free from the dis-
tracting labor of routine teaching; the Garden is wholly
free from political control; it affords every opportunity
for the pursuit of long-continued investigations, such as
many of the problems of experimental botany demand;
its funds, already considerable, are increasing.

In the light of these considerations it would seem more
pertinent to inquire, not ‘*Why should the Garden engage

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in research?’’ but rather ‘‘ Along what lines should its re-
search be pursued?’’—as was pointed out by the presi-
dent in his ‘‘Statement . . . for the Information of the
Board of Managers’’ in April, 1923. In the past thirty
years the science of plants has made remarkable ad-
vances, especially by the aid of the experimental, as dis-
tinguished from the older and more purely observational,
method, and it is to the pursuit of these new aspects of
the science that we must give especial attention in the
future. In view of this the members of the Board are
urged to reacquaint themselves with the discussion of the
topic as presented in ‘‘A Report on Scientific Research,
by the Scientific Directors, 1925.’’

Besides the above increase in endowment, one other con-
tribution to the Garden’s resources deserves special men-
tion, namely, the pledge by the Carnegie Corporation of
$6,000 annually for a period of five vears in aid of public,
especially adult, education. Adult education is now being
emphasized as never before as a function of philanthr opic
institutions that deal with masses of the people, as is evi-
denced, for example, by the extension courses of universi-
ties and the efforts of museums to interest and instruct
their visitors. In a recently published and illuminating
article on ‘‘Education for Adults,’’ Frederick P. Keppel,
President of the Carnegie Corporation, says: ‘‘ Education
for adults has now become one of our major industries.

.. Itis ... well worth while to turn our attention to
adult education . . . as an agency of very definite impor-
tance in making life better worth living for the American
citizen.’’ In the Act of Incorporation of the Garden, en-
acted in 1891, we find ‘‘instruction of the people’’ among
the institution’s purposes; and through all the interven-
ing vears this has been steadily pursued—by means of
public lectures, the museum, publications, the supplying
of a wide variety of information personally and by corre-
spondence, and an organized system of docentry in which

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a competent guide personally conducts individuals or
groups of individuals through the collections and de-
seribes their characteristic features. The gift of the Car-
negie Corporation will enable us to systematize and make
more effective these existing educational measures and
organize new measures, and thus develop more adequately
than ever before this feature of the Garden’s activities.
The first step in this advance should be the appointment
of a competent and experienced supervisor of public edu-
cation.

While the above additions to the funds of the Garden
afford facilities for improvement mainly in the future,
the Board can look back with gratification upon other ac-
complishments which relate more especially to the year
just closed. There has been better maintenance of the
grounds and plantations. The outdoor horticultural dis-
plays have increased in variety, beauty, and usefulness to
both professional and amateur gardeners. The transfor-
mation of the Lake Valley into a Rhododendron Glade of
superior beauty, in conformity with the advice of Olmsted
Brothers, has been begun through an extensive and neces-
sary earth-fill. Another step forward in realizing the
Olmsted plan has been taken in placing before the city’s
Board of Estimate and Apportionment our desires re-
garding the removal from the Garden’s limits of the Park
Department’s greenhouses and workshops and the trans-
fer of the land now occupied by them to the jurisdiction
of the Garden Board, with the ultimate object of utilizing
the site for a Landseape Garden. The Advisory Council
has given much thought to the esthetic improvement of
the grounds and plantations. The members of the Gar-
den staff have shown their traditional whole-hearted loy-
alty to the interests of the institution. Exploration in
the United States, Porto Rico, Bermuda, and northern
South America has been earried on, and valuable addi-
tions to the collections have been made. The taxonomic

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study of these and previous collections has been vigor-
ously pursued by various members of the staff. Dr.
Stout, Director of Laboratories, has continued his re-
markably fruitful experimental investigations on the gen-
eral topic of sterility and fertility. Public interest in and
acquaintance with the Garden have been much increased,
largely owing to the generosity of the public press
throughout the whole country in circulating information
regarding it.

In my report for 1925, I spoke of the competition for
designs for small gardens that had been arranged
through ‘‘The H. H. Memorial,’’ a fund of $5,000 given
by an anonymous donor. This competition, which was
widely announced, attracted much attention, and one hun-
dred and sixty plans from all parts of the country were
submitted. In considering these the Jury was impressed
by their high quality and believed that the contest had
done much to stimulate interest in small gardens. The
first prize of $100 was awarded to Mr. Archie S. Hill,
Wauwatosa, Wisconsin; the second prize of $75 to Mrs.
William Harris Cary, Brooklyn, New York, and the third
prize of $25 to Mr. L. L. Blundell, Brookline, Massachu-
setts. The three winning designs were published in the
‘* Journal of the New York Botanical Garden,’’ April, 1926.
In the spring of 1926 a garden following the design that
won the first prize was laid out and planted in the Botan-
ical Garden. It has since been maintained and, like its
predecessor of the year before, which too was given by the
donor of ‘‘The H. H. Memorial,’’ has attracted much fa-
vorable attention from visitors. A similar competition
under ‘‘The H. H. Memorial’’ has been announced for
1927. By thus making visible artistically designed inex-
pensive gardens, the Botanical Garden is performing a
most valuable service to the people and justifying one of
its most important purposes.

It is noteworthy that there is occurring in this country
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plants and plant science. This is reflected in the existence
of innumerable private gardens, large and small, in gar-
den clubs, in horticultural societies, in flower exhibitions,
and in the publication of books and periodicals devoted to
gardens and gardening. But eagerness to know about
plants and how they behave or can be made to behave is
not limited to horticulture. It is evident in the extension
of existing, and the founding of new, institutions devoted
to the exhibition and especially the scientific investigation
of plants. For example: Plans are in the making for a
considerable enlargement of the Federal Botanical Gar-
den in the city of Washington. The two classic institu-
tions, the Arnold Arboretum and the Botanical Garden of
Harvard University, are calling upon the public for in-
creased funds to enable them to progress. The very
active Missouri Botanical Garden, now thirty-eight years
of age, has outgrown its quarters in St. Louis, and has re-
cently acquired and begun to develop a tract of sixteen
hundred acres of land outside the city, which will vastly
increase its opportunities for the growth and study of
plant life. A project is gradually taking shape for the
organization of a Pacific Botanical Garden in the state of
California, to utilize one thousand acres of land for plant
research. The newly founded Boyce Thompson Institute
for Plant Research, situated in Yonkers, New York, and
devoted to fundamental research on plant problems, is
one of the latest, best-equipped, and most promising of
the research institutions in the field of plant science. The
great need of forest research is being stressed on all
sides; several organizations have recently engaged in a
survey of this topic, and there is every prospect that
these efforts will soon result in liberal financial aid to an
extensive investigation of the problems of the growth and
welfare of trees and their uses for mankind. The univer-
sities are widening the character of their researches on
botanical topics, a notable example being the recent es-

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tablishment in Cornell University of a research professor-
ship in forest soils, which will deal with the chemistry
and biology of soils, and other pregnant and timely prob-
lems. Promising opportunities for the investigation of
tropical and semi-tropical plant life have recently been
offered by the establishment through American agencies
of biological stations in the Panama Canal Zone, Cuba,
and Bermuda. In the light of this widespread and grow-
ing interest in the things of the plant world it behooves us
as administrators of the New York Botanical Garden to
make every effort to place our institution in a position of
national leadership.
Freperic S. Lez,
President

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REPORT OF THE SECRETARY AND DIRECTOR-IN-
CHIEF FOR THE YEAR 1926

Through an increased city appropriation for mainte-
nance, and larger expenditures of corporate funds than in
previous years, somewhat more critical care has been
taken of grounds, plantations, buildings, and collections,
principally through the employment of additional labor-
ers, keepers, and assistants, and some progress has been
made in construction and development. Much larger out-
lay is, however, necessary, in order to realize the possibil-
ities of the institution, recreational, educational, and
scientific. Some of these opportunities for usefulness
may be taken up during the coming year, through other
increases in allowances by the city, and from the income
on the additional endowment funds, generously contrib-
uted by many friends through the operations of the Cam-
paign Committee, under the chairmanship of President

ee.

Police protection has been more comprehensive and
this, together with our additional keepers, the erection of
more railings along paths, and enclosing areas character-
ized by valuable natural features, and the construction of
several hundred feet of boundary fence has tended to pre-
vent depredations and deterioration, which the increasing
number of persons using the grounds has made likely.
Intentional depredations have been few; some have been
checked, and individuals punished. But considerable fur-
ther extension of these protective measures is still re-
quired. It is now desirable to build a simple fence to en-
close completely the nurseries and experimental grounds
on the eastern side of the reservation, to complete the
boundary fence along the Southern Boulevard and Pel-
ham Avenue, and to extend railings along the paths and
trails in the southern part of the Hemlock Grove, and
elsewhere.

As indicated in previous reports, completion of the
path system is needed, both for the convenience of the

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public and because an ample path system is an excellent
protection for grounds and plantations, as the great ma-
jority of pedestrians follow the paths as a matter of
course. Some path-building was accomplished during the
year, especially at and near the new entrances on Pelham
Avenue, where about 500 lineal feet were completely con-
structed and nearly as much more partly built. Muchmore
remains to be done, especially in the southern parts of the
reservation, through the Arboretum east of the Bronx
River, and locally in other parts of the grounds.

All the plantations have been maintained with various
substitutions, minor expansions, and some additions.

The Herbaceous Grounds and the Rock Garden have
continued under the immediate care of Dr. Southwick, the
Dahlia Collection in charge of Dr. Howe, and the Experi-
mental Gardens in charge of Dr. Stout, but all the other
plantations and collections of plants, their labeling and
recording, including the Arboretum, Fruticetum, Horti-
cultural Grounds, Flower Gardens, Border Screens,
Model Gardens, Nurseries, Water Gardens, Rose Garden,
Lilac Garden, Public Greenhouses, and Propagating
Houses have continued under the oversight of Mr. Boyn-
ton, Head Gardener, assisted by Foreman Gardeners Fin-
ley and Becker. The scope of Mr. Boynton’s responsibil-
ities is altogether too extensive; he has, at present, to
know about the location, cultivation, botany, and other
attributes of over 15,000 different kinds of plants and has
far more questions to answer, verbally or by letters,
about them than any other member of the staff; his
knowledge is wonderful, but this condition demands relief.

Floral displays have been continued on about the same
seale as in recent years, with considerable extension of
the Narcissus plantations through the continued contribu-
tions of Mrs. Wheeler H. Peckham; over 58,000 new tulip
bulbs were given by the Holland Bulb Growers’ Associa-
tion; replacements and additions have been made in the

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rose collection through the continued interest of Messrs.
Bobbink and Atkins, and in the iris collections through
the American Iris Society and the investigation of the
native species of the southeastern United States by Dr.
John K. Small.

Additions, replacements, and modifications in arrange-
ment have been made in the Arboretum, Fruticetum,
Flower Gardens, Herbaceous Gardens, Rock Garden, and
Greenhouse Collections. The total number of species and
varieties in the grounds and greenhouses during the year
has been about 16,970.

We have been fortunate up to the present time, in free-
dom from plant diseases and destructive insect pests.
Such as have been detected have mostly been controlled
by ordinary methods, but it is time that precautions be
taken. The Scientific Directors have given this subject
much consideration, not alone from the standpoint of pro-
tection of the collections, but also from the vast field of
investigation offered by these collections in the domain
of plant pathology. Addition of a phytopathologist to
the staff would be the first step in this direction.

The necessity of partly filling with earth the old lake
valley in the southeastern part of the reservation sug-
gested as an available area for extensive plantations of
rhododendrons and related plants was mentioned in my
last annual report, such filling having been made neces-
sary by the blockage of an old culvert. Large quantities
of earth were obtained without charge by Superintendent
Corbett during the early part of the year, from contrac-
tors who were excavating for cellars in the vicinity, and
dumped by them into the two ends of the flooded valley.
Work in distributing this material was commenced dur-
ing the summer and is still in progress; altogether it will
require moving over 25,000 cubic yards. Park Commis-
sioner Hennessy obtained permission to make the re-
quired sewer-connection for the drainage of this valley

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and has made application to the Board of Estimate and
Apportionment for an appropriation of $4,000. The final
surface contour and grades of the valley can be exactly
determined only after this drainage-sewer is built; our
present work is filling what we know to be a minimum
amount.

The proposed removal of the Park Department barn,
shops, and greenhouses, standing on three parcels of land
within and enclosed by the Garden reservation, men-
tioned in my last annual report, has received much fur-
ther consideration. At the request of Park Commissioner
Hennessy, Mr. Brinley was commissioned to codperate
with him and his engineers, Farrelly and Seymour, in se-
lecting a new site for these buildings; this study was
made during the summer; a site was agreed upon, and a
plan for the grouping of the structures drawn, and ap-
proved by the Commissioner, who has asked for an ap-
propriation of $200,000 from the Board of Estimate and
Apportionment.

It will be recalled that the valley near the Bronx River,
on which the Park Department greenhouses now stand,
was suggested as a site for a large landscape garden in
the report by Olmsted Brothers. The removal of these
greenhouses would free this valley for this very desirable
purpose, if, as we have also requested, this land be added
to the Garden reservation; such development would per-
mit of extensive plantations laid out without regard to
scientific or economic educational features. The area of
the Lorillard Mansion site, to the north, would also be
available for such plantations.

The application made at our request by Commissioner
Hennessy, to the Board of Estimate and Apportionment
in 1925, for an appropriation sufficient to build a drive-
way connection between the Rose Garden and the Iris
Garden, including a bridge over the Bronx River, has not
yet been acted upon; this driveway, located as indicated

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in the report of the Olmsted Brothers, would lie across the
southern end of the proposed landscape garden and would
complete the road-system of the reservation. Much
grading and planting will be necessary along this new
road after it is built.

From the foregoing paragraphs it will be seen that we
have three major enterprises for development in codp-
eration with the city, and for which city appropriations
have been asked:

1. The valley for the Rhododendron Glade.
2. The valley for the Landscape Garden.
3. The new driveway and bridge.

During the spring, the site formerly occupied by the
Lorillard Mansion was graded, regulated, and sown; an
area of about an acre is thus made available for planting;
much grading with topsoil was also required along the
borders of the driveways rebuilt by the Department of
Parks in 1925.

Grading and filling of lands of Fordham University ad-
joining the Garden reservation, during the year, have
made necessary the reconstruction of part of a boundary
fence and several hundred feet of path, with considerable
grading and replanting ; this work should be accomplished
during the coming season.

Repairs and replacements included the reglazing of the
upper dome of House 1 and the roof of House 11, Con-
servatory Range No. 1, and rebuilding the brickwork sup-
porting all the five boilers in Power House 1, by means of
contracts awarded through the Department of Parks;
minor repairs to buildings, furniture, water-pipes, steam-
pipes, and drains were made by our own mechanics and
laborers under the direction of Mr. Corbett. During the
coming year large expenditure for painting will be nec-
essary.

The need of constructing soon a wing of the Museum
Building becomes more and more apparent as the devel-

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opment of the Garden proceeds. The plan for the com-
pleted edifice contemplates two wings running out north-
eastward from the present structure and a connecting
feature in the rear, leaving a court; provision was thus
made in the plan for more than doubling the capacity of
the part built in 1898-1900. The accumulation of speci-
mens and books during 25 years has almost filled all the
available floor-space with cases and tables. Laboratory
working space has been reduced to an insignificant area
and office space is restricted. More room for herbarium
cases will soon be required. While the herbarium has be-
come large, it does not yet compare in size with some of the
Old World herbaria; when Dr. Hill, Director of the Kew
Garden, was here in the autumn, he told us that the her-
barium of his institution contained over 4,000,000 speci-
mens; ours is not more than one-half as large.

Electric lighting of the Museum Building, for which an
appropriation of $10,000 was made by the Board of Esti-
mate and Apportionment in the spring, may soon be ob-
tained through a contract to be awarded by the Depart-
ment of Parks. The Edison Company has brought a
cable to the building for this service, from the Mosholu
Parkway Entrance.

Lectures of a semi-popular character on botanical, hor-
ticultural, and allied subjects were given in the Museum
Building by members of the staff and invited speakers on
39 Saturday afternoons from March 1 to November 30.
The total attendance was 3,658, an average of about 94 to
a lecture, a slight increase over the record of the preced-
ing year. There were also lectures and demonstrations
on Saturday afternoons during the winter months in the
Central Display House of Conservatory Range No. 2.

Docentry work with classes from public and private
schools and with daily visitors was continued, chiefly by
Mr. R. 8S. Willams, Administrative Assistant, and Mr.
Percy Wilson, Associate Curator. All members of the

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staff have continued to respond to many letters asking for
scientific information or for practical assistance in the
cultivation of plants.

The Garden library now contains approximately 35,513
bound volumes. <Accessioning of the important collection
of books from Geneva, purchased in 1923, is now com-
plete, with the exception of a large number of pamphlets.
In January, the residue of the botanical library of Dr.
John Hendley Barnhart, comprising about 2,000 volumes
and many pamphlets, was purchased, and these volumes
are now being accessioned. During the past few years,
seven new steel stacks have been installed in the Morpho-
logical Laboratory to accommodate the expansion of the
library, and the shifting of the books to utilize completely
these new stacks was begun near the end of 1926. This
will involve moving nearly all the books of the library.

Botanical exploration and collecting were accomplished
in Porto Rico during the late winter, where I was occu-
pied with Mrs. Britton and Dr. Arthur Hollick for about
two months, especially in further studies of cultivated
plants and in obtaining a large and important series of
fossil plants from the Collazo Shales of the Oligocene
Period; the notes on cultivated plants were brought to-
gether in Part 3 of Volume VI, Scientific Survey of Porto
Rico and the Virgin Islands, and published in June; note-
worthy description and illustration of the fossil plants
has been nearly completed by Dr. Hollick for publication
in Part 3 of Volume VII of the same work. During a
longer period early in the year, Dr. Gleason was occupied,
with Dr. Mel T. Cook, in studies of the Plant Ecology of
Porto Rico; their report of this investigation is now in
press as Parts 1 and 2 of this Survey.

Dr. John K. Small, under the continued generous pat-
ronage of Mr. Charles Deering, made two extensive trips
in the Southeastern States, one in the spring, the other in
the latter part of the year. Many thousand duplicate her-

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barium specimens collected by him in former years have
been determined, labeled, and arranged for exchanges
with other institutions at home and abroad; from these
we are promised invaluable collections from many parts
of the world.

Dr. P. A. Rydberg spent about two months of the
autumn in field work in Minnesota, the Dakotas, Kansas,
and Nebraska, for continuation of his studies on the vege-
tation of the Great Plains; his descriptive flora of this
region has now been made essentially complete for pub-
lication.

Dr. Fred J. Seaver visited Bermuda for about a month
early in the year, in company with Professor H. H. Whet-
zel, of Cornell University, for further investigation of the
fungi; they detected many species hitherto unknown to
exist there; this collection is now being studied.

In continuation of our investigation of the flora of
Northern South America, in codperation with the Smith-
sonian Institution and the Gray Herbarium of Harvard
University, Mr. Ellsworth P. Killip, of the United States
National Aluseum, proceeded, in August, to Cartagena,
Colombia, accompanied by Mr. Albert E. Smith, a former
student at the Garden; they intend to collect specimens in
several parts of northern Colombia over a period of about
six months.

Investigational work of considerable scope has been ac-
complished chiefly in connection with curatorial duties by
members of the staff and by students under their direc-
tion. My own studies of the West Indian flora were con-
tinued, as were those of Dr. Howe in phycology, and those
of Dr. Small on the vegetation of the southern United
States; Dr. Rydberg gave some time to the study of the
flora of the Great Plains of North America; Dr. Gleason
gave much attention to the large collections from north-
ern South America obtained in recent years: Dr. Seaver
continued mycological investigations, and Mr. Wilson,

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studies of the Cuban flora; Dr. Stout accomplished much
in the fields of genetics and floral sterility.

The serial publications of the Garden during 1926 in-
cluded twelve numbers of the monthly Journal, six num-
bers of Mycologia, four parts of Addisonia, one part of
North American Flora, one number of the Bulletin, and
nine numbers of Contributions. The need of additional
assistance in editorial work, emphasized in my last report,
continues to be urgent.

A special subscription fund was contributed to meet
part of the expenses of the purchase of plants, botanical
exploration, book binding, museum labels, fencing, path
construction, and grading. This was given by forty mem-
bers as follows:

Mr. Vincent Astor icccccccccccccccsecessssessss scseeessscenseee $ 200.00
Mr. John W. Auchincloss oc. ice 25.00
Mr. George Blumenthal 50.00
Dr. N. L. Britton 1,000.00
Mrs. Frederick A. Constable ..WW... ee 100.00
Mr. James W. Cromwell 200.00
Mrs. Charles D. Dickey 50.00
Mr. Marshall Field 100.00
Mr. Murry Guggenheim 200.00
Mr. J. Montgomery Hare 00. ccc ees 25.00
Mr. Anton G. Hodenpyl 100.00

Mr. Adrian Iselin 2 oicccccccce ccs cmc 6
Mrs. Delancey Kane .....
Mrs. Gustav E. Kissel
Mr. Adolph Lewisohn
Mr. Kenneth K. Mackenzie ...

Mr. Barrington Moore
Dr. L. RB. Morris ......
Dr. Robert T. Morris .....
Mr. Be Ei O1COtt oiceccccceccsssccsccecsseeseeee sesetnes eeestnasee

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Mr. Charles Lathrop Pack www 100.00
Mrs. George W. Perkins 0... ccc sense 100.00
Mr. W. H. Perkins 100.00
Mr. H. Hobart Porter 2. 0. eee 100.00
Mrs. William Kelly a Sees: 50.00
Mr. Mortimer L. Schiff uw... pee ae 250.00
Miss Ellen J. aes 50.00
Mr. Frederick Strauss ccc eee 50.00

Mr. F. K. Sturgis
Mrs. John T. Ter
The Daniel and ee Guggenheim

Foundation 200.00
Mr. Louis C. Tiffany 2. ou. ee 100.00
Mrs. Harold MeL. Turmer wc ce 50.00
Mr. Felix M. Warburg 2.000. ee 100.00
Mr. Allen Wardwell ..0.00.00 ccc css ce 50.00
Mrs. William H. Woodin occ 100.00
Miss Julia Wray 100.00

Total wu. $5,200.00

The city appropriation for maintenance of grounds, ,
buildings, and collections has been increased from $225,-
000 for 1926 to $230,000 for 1927.

Reports by members of the staff are appended.

N. L. Brrrron,
Secretary and Director-in-Chief

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REPORT OF THE HEAD CURATOR OF THE
MUSEUMS AND HERBARIUM

The several collections under my supervision were de-
veloped as in former years, the additions being derived
through the several channels and in quantities, recorded
in the Journal during the year, and here indicated as fol-
lows:

By gift and purchase 2,813
By exchange 6,376
By exploration 4,666

Thus a total of 13,855 specimens was accumulated for
the public exhibits and for the study collections. The col-
lections and exhibits were maintained and improved on
the same lines as in former years. The accessions came
from all parts of the world—a minimum from the Old
World. These latter elements bear more or less indi-
rectly on the active work of the Garden. Among the re-
gions in which the active work of the Garden is in prog-
ress and from which the great bulk of the specimens
were derived may be mentioned Canada, continental
United States, Mexico, Panama, Colombia, British Gui-
ana, Brazil, Peru, Ecuador, Chile, and the West Indies,
especially Bermuda, Cuba, Hispaniola, Porto Rico and
the Virgin Islands, and Trinidad.

About 6,300 specimens were sent to other institutions
in exchange for other specimens needed for immediate or
for future use in connection with the investigational work
of members of the Garden Staff.

MUSEUMS

The collections of the Economic Museum, the System-
atic Museum, and the Local Flora, and the Fossil-plant
Museum were augmented by the interpolation of speci-
mens. The microscope exhibit and the plant-picture ex-

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hibit were maintained as in the preceding year. No new
equipment was added.

Several hundred specimens were interpolated in the
several divisions of the Economie Museum.

HERBARIA

The general herbarium, the Local Flora herbarium,
and the Columbia University herbarium were increased
by the addition of desirable specimens selected from the
various collections referred to above.

The one large addition to the herbarium resources was
the moss herbarium of the late Dr. George N. Best (not
included in above total of accessions).

About 16,000 herbarium sheets were added to the col-
lection. These represent the total of about 20,000 speci-
mens selected from collections received during the cur-
rent year or in former years.

INVESTIGATIONS AND ASSISTANCE

Dr. P. A. Rydberg, Curator, continued in charge of the
collection of flowering plants. Besides the routine work
of sorting and selecting specimens for mounting, dis-
tributing the mounted material into the herbarium cases,
identifying plants sent in for determination, answering
inquiries and giving information relative to his depart-
ment, selecting exchange material for other institutions,
ete., he accomplished some research work, mainly in con-
nection with his work on Astragalus and related genera,
and on the flora of the prairie and plain region between
the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains. Regard-
ing the former, the work is advanced so far that the
manuscript will be completed during the coming year, and
will constitute two parts of North American Flora. In
the early summer a week was devoted to study at the
Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. During Sep-
tember and October, he visited the herbaria of institu-
tions in the Central West for studies in connection with

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his work on the flora of that region. Limited field work
was accomplished in Minnesota, but the plan to visit the
Turtle Mountains in North Dakota was frustrated by an
unusually early snow storm. Dr. Rydberg was a delegate,
both to the International Botanical Congress, held at
Ithaca, New York, where he gave a paper entitled ‘‘Scylla
or Charybdis,’’ in which he illustrated the extreme ten-
dencies in taxonomic botany, and also to the meetings of
the American Association for the Advancement of Sci-
ence and the Botanical Society of America held at Phila-
delphia, where he acted as Chairman of the Systematic
Section. The following publications have issued from his
hand during the year: ‘‘Notes on Fabaceae—VII—Geo-
prumnon and Hesperastragalus’’; ‘‘Two new species
from the mountains of West Virginia’’; ‘‘Some Extinct
or Lost and Rediscovered Plants—IIJ—Psoralea stipu-
lata.’?’ Manuscript prepared by him for a part of North
American Flora went to the printers and reached the
stage of galley proof by the end of the year. It covers
the tribes Liabeae, Neuroleneae, and a part of Senecio-
neae, mainly the genus Arnica, of the Carduaceae.

Dr. H. A. Gleason, Curator, sailed for Porto Rico Janu-
ary 14 and returned to New York May 5. During his ab-
sence he collaborated with Dr. Mel T. Cook, Government
Botanist and Plant Pathologist of Porto Rico, in an eco-
logical survey of the island, as a contribution to the scien-
tific survey of Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands. A
brief report of his activities has already been submitted
(Journal 27: 104-106. 1926), and the results of his re-
searches are now in press, constituting Parts 1 and 2 of
Volume VII of the Scientific Survey of Porto Rico and
the Virgin Islands. The elaboratiun of his field work
and the preparation of manuscript occupied his time for
a further period of four months. During the remainder
of the year he has handled the herbarium material from
South America and continued his studies on the flora of

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the northern part of that continent, with special refer-
ence to British Guiana. He has also delivered two public
lectures as a part of the regular Garden series. His pub-
lications for the year are as follows: ‘‘ The individualistic
concept of the plant association’’; ‘‘ Botanical features of
Ceylon’’; ‘‘The Guianas’”’ (with William Beebe) ; ‘‘Eco-
logical studies in Porto Rico’’; ‘‘Studies on the flora of
northern South America—IX”’; ‘‘ Miscellaneous new spe-
cies from British Guiana,’’ and ‘‘In British Guiana
jungles.”’

Dr. Fred J. Seaver, Curator, continued his care of the
fungous collection and prosecuted further studies on the
fungi during the year. On January 9, he sailed in com-
pany with Professor H. H. Whetzel for several weeks’
further investigation on the fungous flora of the Ber-
mudas. A comparatively large collection was obtained
and preliminary studies of many of the species made in
the laboratory of the Public Gardens. This collection will
be divided between Cornell University and the Garden,
and studied as opportunity is afforded. ‘‘The mycology
of Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands’’ (Scientific Survey
of Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands, Volume 8, Part 1),
was completed and printed during the year. This work
comprises 208 pages, including the host index. Dr. Seaver
also continued to edit Mycologia and gave the usual num-
ber of lectures. Also a number of minor papers were pub-
lished by him.

Mr. Perey Wilson, Associate Curator, continued his
studies on West Indian plants. Since the completion of
the seventh part of the Flora of Porto Rico and the Vir-
gin Islands, which finished the treatment of the flowering
plants, in codperation with Dr. Britton, he gave special
attention to revising the manuscript of a Flora of Cuba,
made necessary by recent exploration and the acquisition
of critical specimens. He also determined specimens and
collections of specimens from the West Indies for other

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institutions. Besides his work as docent on week-day
afternoons, Mr. Wilson had special charge of a large
number of classes from both public and private schools
for outdoor, conservatory, and museum instruction. Mr.
Wilson labeled and sorted the many thousand duplicate
herbarium specimens collected by the undersigned in
Florida during the past decade, thus preparing them for
distribution to other institutions as exchanges.

Mrs. William Mitchell, Associate Curator, was asso-
ciated with Dr. Rydberg in the care of the collection of
flowering plants, having a large part in the sorting and
distribution of dried and fluid specimens, and with Mr.
Wilson in preparing dupleate specimens for distribution.
Early in the year she gave the herbarium of cultivated
plants a complete renovation and later in the year reno-
vated several families of the general herbarium. Mrs.
Mitchell cared for the development of the local herbar-
ium. Aside from sorting and distribution of some mis-
cellaneous material, she sorted and arranged the mono-
cots of the Bicknell herbarium (exclusive of the grasses)
so that they are readily accessible. The genus Carex was
arranged and put in the hands of a carex expert for
study. A large set of aquatic plants was accumulated for
Dr. Hugo Gliick, of Heidelberg, in exchange for other
aquatics.

Dr. H. H. Rusby, Honorary Curator of the Economic
Collections, had supervision of the collections of the Eeo-
nomic Museum. (For details see his report.)

Dr. Arthur Hollick, Paleobotanist, had supervision of
the fossil plant collection. (For details see his report.)

Mrs. N. L. Britton, Honorary Curator of Mosses, had
supervision of the moss collections. (For details see her
report.)

Dr. H. M. Denslow, Honorary Custodian of the Local
Herbarium, had supervision of the collection of local
plants. (For details see his report.)

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The undersigned, in addition to curatorial routine, con-
tinued his intensive studies in the flora and floristics of
the southeastern United States east of New Mexico, giv-
ing tangible form to some of them in manuscripts of man-
uals, parts of which are now in press. In this connection
he nearly finished assembling the specimens collected in
the southeastern states during many trips of exploration,
making one set available for preservation in the herba-
rium and the residue for exchange. In part, in this con-
nection, two trips of exploration—spring and fall—with
the cooperation of Charles Deering, were made into the
Gulf States, from Florida to Louisiana. Numerous minor
plant problems were solved in the field, a great deal of
herbarium and museum material was secured, numerous
live herbaceous and woody plants were sent to the Garden
for growing as future subjects for illustrating in Addi-
sonia. Much additional material of this character—seeds
and plants—were secured through correspondence, espe-
cially through Robert Runyon, from the Rio Grande Val-
ley. From all this live material many paintings were
made by Mary E. Eaton, for future illustration in Addi-
soma. This field-work contributed much to his further
studies in certain critical plant groups, 7.e., flags (Zris),
spider-lilies (Hymenocallis), enabled the making of many
plant photographs, and, in connection with former field-
work led to the preparation of numerous manuscripts of
various caliber, about a dozen of which were published
during the year.

Joun K. SMALL,
Head Curator of the Museums and Herbarwum

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REPORT OF THE HEAD GARDENER

HORTICULTURAL OPERATIONS

The gardening staff, under the direction of Messrs.
John Finley and H. W. Becker, Foreman Gardeners, con-
sisted of 27 gardeners and 14 laborers. The outside force,
under direction of Mr. Finley, after finishing the winter
tree work, spent the major part of the season in flower-
garden work. Chrysanthemum, Phlox, and Rose collec-
tions and the borders were cared for. The 1926 prize
Garden was begun. Mrs. Wheeler H. Peckham super-
vised the planting of beds in the Iris Garden. The tulip
display beds were prepared and planted with 58,850
bulbs, the Conservatory Court beds with 34,800 of Early
Singles, Cottages, and Doubles, the remaining 24,050 Dar-
wins and Breeders having been planted in the Horticul-
tural Grounds. 25 trees were planted along roads and
paths, 10 trees were planted in the Pinetum, 36 trees were
planted in the Arboretum, 120 Shrubs were planted in the
Fruticetum. There were 10 specimens planted in the
dwarf collection, and among the late-blooming shrubs 20
species and varieties. The laying out of the flower
collections was under the direction of Mr. John Hartling,
Head Gardener’s Assistant.

GREENHOUSE OPERATIONS

The greenhouse force, under the direction of Mr.
Becker, has maintained the indoor collection as usual.
The plants in House No. 1, Range No. 1, consisting of
palms, were removed and replaced, pending the glazing
of the upper dome. Those in House No. 11 were removed
while the reglazing was being done. 1,119 plants, includ-
ing 325 Chrysanthemums, 90 Primulas, 125 Begonias, 96
Gloxinias, 50 Impatiens, 20 Peppers, were grown for ex-
hibition in the Central Display House. The feature ex-
hibition was the Chrysanthemum show, the 50 new varie-

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ties given by Elmer D. Smith & Co., Adrian, Michigan,
being especially fine. An increasing number of seedlings
were raised for the systematic collections, the Rock Gar-
den, the Flower Gardens, and the Nurseries, as well as
plants for Dr. Small’s studies of native irises, for Dr.
Stout’s researches, and several thousand bedding plants.

SYSTEMATIC PLANTATIONS

Herbaceous Grounds. There have been 380 species of
plants added to the herbaceous collection this year,
through seeds, gifts, and collections, these distributed
over about 75 families. With these additions this collec-
tion now contains about 1,630 species; these added to
those of the Rock Garden, Flower Gardens, and Nur-
series, give the Garden a collection of nearly 3,500 species
of herbaceous plants.,

Woody Collection. 75 species of hardy woody plants
new to our collections were raised from seed this year, in-
creasing the plants in the nursery available for these col-
lections by about 250.

Conservatories. About 26,478 plants are now in our
greenhouse collections, including 9,512 in Range No. 1,
9,635 in Range No. 2, and 7,331 in the Propagating
Houses. 82 varieties of water-lilies, 350 plants, were
shown in the Conservatory Court.

MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS

Rose Garden. 250 hybrid tea and hybrid perpetual,
polyantha, and climbing roses for replacements, also new
varieties, were added to the Garden this year by Bobbink
& Atkins, of Rutherford, New Jersey.

Dahha Garden. 420 varieties, represented by 992
plants, were grown in the Dahlia Border, under the direc-
tion of Dr. M. A. Howe.

Iris Garden. The Iris collection contains now about
1,057 varieties, 3,419 plants, including the alphabetical

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and the nursery collections. 1,286 plants of American
native Irises, collected by Dr. Small and others, were
added to this collection.

Narcissus Collection. This collection contains 61,200
plants and 146 varieties in massed and naturalistic plant-
ing, same as last year, except for the natural increase.

Hyacinth Display. This display remains the same as
last year.

Gladiolus Collection. The Gladiolus collection now con-
tains about 5,000 bulbs in about 40 varieties.

Variegated Plant Collection. 68 varieties, 500 plants,
were displayed in the variegated plant bed.

Hardy Chrysanthemum Collection. 95 varieties, 1,095
plants, were grown for this display. An increasing inter-
est in this collection was shown by people all over the
country.

Peony Collection. This collection now contains 166
varieties, 427 plants.

Phlox Collection. This collection contains 30 varieties,
330 plants, of which 130 plants in 12 varieties were given
by Bobbink & Atkins, Rutherford, New Jersey.

Lilac Garden. The Lilac collection consists of 560
plants of 186 named varieties.

Canna Collection. 1,710 plants, 76 varieties, were dis-
played in this collection. 16 new varieties were purchased
and 1 new variety was given.

Tulip Display. 58,850, in 117 varieties, were given by
the Dutch Bulb Exporters’ Association.

Coleus Collection. This collection consisted of about
3,000 plants in 10 varieties and was planted along the ter-
race east of Range No. 1.

Mallow Collection. This collection remains the same
as last year.

Rock Garden. 546 species of plants were set out in the
Rock Garden in 1926, under the direction of Dr. E. B.
Southwick. Mrs. W. H. Peckham presented many bulbs

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of Narcissus, Crocus, Colchicum and other genera. These,
together with mass planting of Sedums, Sempervivums,
and quantities of plants raised by Dr. Southwick from
cuttings, made the Rock Garden a great attraction to vis-
itors.

Dwarf Collection. This collection contains 62 plants in
27 varieties.

LABELING, RECORDING, AND HERBARIUM
Under the direction of Mr. John Hartling, Head Gar-
dener’s Assistant, with one label boy part of the year, a
total of 3,128 labels have been made and placed, including
253 for the Fruticetum, 22 for the Arboretum, 30 for the
Pinetum, 360 for the Horticultural Grounds, 607 for Con-
servatory Range No. 1, 213 for Conservatory Beds, 161
for Herbaceous Grounds, 282 for Iris Garden, 326 for the
Dahlia Border, 221 for the Rose Garden, 145 for the Eco-
nomic Garden, 166 for the Lilac Garden, 89 for the Water-
lilies, 57 for the Tulip Display, 166 for the Morphological
Garden, and 32 for Roads and Paths; 2,500 pot labels
were cleaned and painted, 178 signs painted. Accession
numbers 56244 to 57909 have been recorded, making a
total of 1,664 accessions for the year. 3,528 packets of
seed were received; 1,500 of these have been collected by
members of this department on the grounds; 22 were re-
ceived by gift, 1,312 by exchange, 2,028 by purchase, 12 by
collection. 59,522 bulbs were received and 8,122 plants;
of the latter, 620 were by gift, 2,237 by collection, 1,495 by
exchange, 2,192 by purchase, and 1,578 from seed. 200
specimens were added to the herbarium of cultivated
plants. This department has collected material for
schools, nature study, and college classes in botany and
exchanged living plants with institutions and parks.

LECTURES

I have delivered four lectures in the regular courses.
ENNETH R. Boynton,

Head Gardener

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REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR OF LABORATORIES
FOR THE YEAR 1926

GENERAL MATTERS

Such routine duties as the keeping of meteorological
records, the arranging of programs for the conferences
of the scientific staff, the general care of the laboratories,
and the giving of lectures in the Garden courses have
been performed during the year.

The position of technical assistant, made vacant Sep-
tember 1st by the resignation of Miss Hester M. Rusk,
was filled for the year following that date by the appoint-
ment of Mr. T. Susa.

I served as secretary of the International Conference
on Flower and Fruit Sterility, which was held in New
York City during August, under the auspices of the
Horticultural Society of New York. The organization of
the program of this Conference and the editing of the
proceedings which are to be printed as a Memoir of the
Society have required considerable time. <A full report
of this Conference will appear elsewhere.

Certain matters of laboratory equipment and manage-
ment now require attention. A constant-temperature
oven is necessary for adequate studies of pollen germi-
nation, chambers for maintaining low temperatures for
studies of the longevity of pollen are greatly needed, and
new paraffin ovens are desired. All these are vital for
the most successful prosecution of various studies of fer-
tility and sterility. I respectfully request that this equip-
ment be obtained in the very near future. The expansion
of the library has somewhat curtailed laboratory space
and facilities and brings the matter of adequate labora-
tory arrangement to the front for consideration.

PERSONAL RESEARCH

My main research continues to be directed to sterility

and fertility in plants and to problems in plant breeding.
These may be reported as follows:

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Investigation with species of Lilium. This project,
which has been in progress for a number of years, has
three main aims: (1) the study of sterilities, (2) the study
of the cultural requirements, and (3) the improvement by
breeding and hybridization. Special attention has been
given this year to the growing of seedlings. Several hy-
brids have flowered, among which is one from the cross
L. regaleX L. Sargentiae. Several hundred bulbs reared
from seed have been furnished this year for display
plantings. From bulbs supplied by Mrs. Mortimer J. Fox
and Mr. C. P. Horsford, plants were forced for an educa-
tional exhibit at the International Flower Show. A case
of bulbs, comprising several kinds needed for experimen-
tal work, was purchased this autumn from funds kindly
supplied by Mrs. Wheeler H. Peckham.

Studies with day lines (Hemerocallis). We now have
assembled nearly all of the species and most of the avail-
able varieties of day lihes for studies of sterility and for
breeding. We are now growing about 2,000 seedling day
lies. Most of these are hybrids of the second generation
from crosses with fulva as one of the parents. These
plants exhibit a wide range of variations in shape, size,
and color of flowers and in habit of growth. Many are
worthy of propagation for general culture in flower gar-
dens. Selections of the best plants are being propagated
through exchange relations with the Wyomissing Nur-
sery Company for distributing to the trade. A cytolog-
ical study of the various species of Hemerocallis and
their hybrids is well under way and for the H. fulva this
study is nearly complete.

Stertlity in Irises. The American Iris Society provided
for a scholarship this year for further study of sterility
in irises. This was granted to Mr. Clarence E. Moore,
and the report of his studies has already been published
in the Bulletin of the American Iris Society. Mr. Robert
Greene also made some excellent studies of the sterilities

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of the early dwarf bearded irises, as a student investi-
gation.

Investigations at the New York Agricultural Experi-
ment Station. Iam continuing to codperate with the Hor-
ticultural Department of the New York Agricultural Ex-
periment Station in studies of the pollination require-
ments of fruit trees and in the project of breeding for
new varieties of hardy seedless grapes. JI am pleased to
report that a new seedless grape has been obtained whose
fruits closely resemble those of the Thompson Seedless
variety. This plant bore fruit this year for the first time.
It was secured in a delibrate effort to produce seedless
grapes by breeding hardy near-seedless plants with seed-
less varieties. Efforts will now be made to secure more
seedlings of this sort, of which it is hoped some suitable
for culture in this section of the United States will be ob-
tained.

The breeding of poplars. Noteworthy progress has
been made in the project of breeding poplars, which is
being conducted in codperation with the Research De-
partment of the Oxford Paper Company. Mr. E. J.
Schreiner has continued in this work with the assistance
of several persons in the employ of the Oxford Paper
Company. Seedlings have been obtained from 96 differ-
ent cross-combinations between species and varieties and
breeding within several of the species is also in progress.
A total of over 13,000 seedlings are being grown. During
the first summer of their growth these seedlings are cared
for at our Propagating Houses. Then they are grown in
a field nursery at Strathglass Farm, near White Plains,
the property of Mr. Hugh Chisholm, President of the Ox-
ford Paper Company. The seedlings are being carefully
studied and selections will be made of the most promis-
ing ones for propagation as clonal strains to be planted
for pulp-wood timber.

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Other investigations. In various cultures of Pelargo-
nium, studies of sterility are being combined with studies
of the heredity of variegation and doubleness of flowers.

The requirements for cross-pollination have been stud-
ied in the Feijoa and fruit obtained on our greenhouse
plants. Studies of self- and cross-incompatibility are
being continued in species of Linaria, species of Antir-
rhinum, and in Chinese cabbage. Fruit in abundance has
been obtained by cross-pollination between different
clonal strains of the Lily of the Valley, all of which ap-
pear to be self-incompatible. Breeding of the pale-pink
Lily of the Valley is being carried on in the hope that the
color may be intensified. An investigation of the sterility
of the ‘‘cigar plant’’ (Cuphea ignea) is in progress. Va-
rious phases of these studies are being handled as proj-
ects for the research of registered students.

During the year a final report has been prepared on
the flower behavior of avocados based on the observations
made in California and in Florida. This is published in
volume 7 of the Memoirs of The New York Botanical
Garden.

REGISTERED STUDENTS AND SCHOLARS

During the year, the following persons have been en-
rolled at the Garden, either as recipients of scholarships
or as students registered for credits in Columbia Uni-
versity:

Ballard, Charles Wm., Histology and taxonomy of E'ry-
throxylon.

Bowers, Clement G., The breeding of Rhododendrons
and Azaleas.

Goodlatte, Amelia R., Cytology.

Greene, Robert A., Plant breeding.

Jacot, Arthur P., Taxonomy. Plants of northern China.

Krauss, Gertrude H., Plant breeding.

Schreiner, Ernst J., Plant breeding, pathology, and
taxonomy of the genus Populus.

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Smith, Albert C., Taxonomy of ferns.
Susa, Torasaburo, Sterilities in plants.
Toro, Rafael A., Mycology.
Wodehouse, Roger P., Morphology of pollen.
A. B. Stout,
Director of the Laboratories

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REPORT OF THE BIBLIOGRAPHER

Assistance to visitors using the library, and biblio-
graphic and editorial work, have filled my time through-
out the year.

Volume 7, part 11, of North American Flora, appeared
in August. Another part of the same volume is partly in
type; a part of volume 34 is nearly ready for publication;
and work on several other parts is in progress. The last
number of volume 10, and three of volume 11, of Addi
sonia, have been published during the year. The third
number of volume 11, due on the last day of September,
did not appear until December 9; but the concluding num-
ber, thanks to the codperation of the Director-in-Chief
with the editors, was nearly ready to come out at the end
of the same month, and is promised for the first week in
January. It is five years since a number has appeared so
near the nominal publication date.

Accessioning of the Geneva library purchase of 1923
was essentially completed by the Librarian during 1926,
but listing of duplicates, which devolves upon the Bibli-
ographer, is not yet finished. The portion of my own h-
brary that has been reserved for the purpose for several
years, comprising about two thousand volumes and many
pamphlets, was purchased by the Garden in January, and
has been partially accessioned.

Jounx Henp ey Barnwart,
Bibliographer

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REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN

Owing to various causes the census of the library was
again omitted, but the following statistics with regard to
the bound volumes are furnished by the records. There
were received by gift 54, including 15 presented by Mr. N.
T. Kidder in 1917 and not hitherto accessioned, by ex-
change 31, and by purchase 677. The last number in-
cludes 258 volumes remaining from the Geneva collection,
266 from the library of Dr. J. H. Barnhart purchased in
January, and 153 others. There have been bound during
the year 776 volumes, including 30 belonging to Columbia
University. The total number of bound accessions for
1926 is, therefore, 1,538, which, added to the number in the
library at the beginning of the year, 33,975, makes the
present number to be 35,518.

There have also been accessioned 245 unbound volumes
and pamphlets from the Barnhart library, 223 from the
Geneva purchase, and a large number of others acquired
chiefly by gift or exchange. The cataloguing of the Ge-
neva collection is now complete with the exception of a
large number of pamphlets still unexamined. It is pos-
sible that these may include some rarities.

The leading accessions have been listed in the Journal
as heretofore.

There have been added to the catalogue 1,983 typewrit-
ten and 5,223 printed cards, the latter issued by the Tor-
rey Botanical Club. Three boxes of new species cards
sent out by the Gray Herbarium have also been filed. The
drawers containing this collection are again becoming
somewhat crowded and it seems advisable that a new case
be secured in the near future.

The Jarge influx of volumes due to the Geneva and
Barnhart purchases, as well as the constantly increasing
numbers of bound periodicals, have caused an over-
crowded condition in certain portions of the library. Late
in November the moving of the books was commenced,

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the works on landscape architecture, horticulture, and
agriculture, in part, being transferred to the new stacks
in the laboratory. Further progress will be made as
rapidly as possible and it is hoped that by spring the
work may be nearly, if not entirely, completed.

A number of new Bulletin and Alycologia exchanges
have been made, in some instances the Journal also hay-
ing been sent.

A complete list of the serials received has not been pub-
lished since 1922. It is desirable that such a list should
be printed at frequent intervals, but the large amount of
cataloguing, as well as the pressure of other duties have
so occupied the librarian’s time for the past few years
that she has been unable to give this matter the time and
careful attention which it demands.

The following additions and corrections should be made
to the list of serials as appended to the report of the Li-
brarian for 1921 (Bulletin 12: 41-61) and supplemented
in the report for 1922 (12: 139), 1923 (12: 211, 212), 1924
(13: 83), and 1925 (18: 126):

Omit the following:

Der Pilz und Kreuterfreund, Heilbronn a. N., Germany.

La Nuova Notarisia, Modena, Italy.

Mexico. Direccién general de Agricultira, San Jacinto,
Mex. La Revista Agricola.

Add the following:

American Microscopical Society, Urbana, Ill. Transac-
tions.

Archivio Botanico, Forli, Italy.

Better Homes and Gardens, Des Moines, Ia.

Kief. Botanic Garden, Kief, Russia. Bulletin, Seed
Insts.

Krasnodar. Experimental Institute for Tobacco Culture,
Krasnodar, Russia. Bulletin.

Moscow. Musée d’Htat de la Region Industrielle Cen-
trale, Moscow, Russia. Mémoires.

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Moscow. Société des Amis des Sciences Naturelles d’An-
thropologie et d’Ethnographie, Moscow, Russia.
Mémoires.

Mykologia, Prague, Czecoslovakia.

Omsk. Siberian Institute of Agriculture and Forestry,
Omsk, Russia. Report.

Quarterly Review of Biology, Baltimore, Md.

Sendai. Tohoku Imperial University, Sendai, Japan.
Sctence Reports (Biology).

Tartu. Botanical Institute and Garden, Tartu, Esthonia.
Acta.

Tiflis. Polytechnic Institute, Tiflis, Russia. Bulletin.

Tijdschrift over Plantenziekten, Wageningen, Holland.

Tokyo. Imperial Academy, Tokyo, Japan. Proceedings.

Warsaw. Ecole Supérieure d’Agriculture. Institut de
Génétique, Warsaw, Poland. Mémoires.

SaraH H. Hartow,
Inbrarian

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REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF
BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS

REGULATING AND GRADING

The roads and paths of the Garden have been regulated
and graded extensively during the past year.

The two sides of the main drive from the South Gate
to the northern entrance and of the west drive from 200th
Street to the large circle beyond the lakes were sown with
lawn-grass seed. The path on the western side of the
Bronx River, at the entrance near the Linnaeus Bridge
on Pelham Parkway, was graded for a distance of 250
feet, and both sides of this path were regulated, guttered,
and sodded for the same distance. In order that the en-
trance on Pelham Parkway might conform with the side-
walks there, 198 feet of 18-inch curbstone were used.

As in former years, contractors building in the vicinity
of the Garden, who were looking for a convenient place
to dispose of soil unearthed from excavations, have
brought a considerable amount of soil into the Garden at
their own expense. They carted in about 20,000 yards
of this soil during the year, 19,000 yards of which were
placed along the northern and eastern sides of the Long
Lake, in order to fill in the bottom of the valley and 400
yards were used to complete the grading of the cellar of
the Lorillard Mansion. For filling at the lilac collection
300 yards of this soil were used and the remaining 300
yards were placed in the picnic grounds on the western
side of the Bronx River, so as to complete the culvert
built there.

Since the latter part of July, six to ten laborers were
assigned to the work of filling in the Long Lake, which is
now about one-third filled.

DRAINAGE
Four catch-basins and 90 feet of 6-inch drain-pipe were
used for drainage purposes at the Pelham Parkway en-

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trance, near the Linnaeus Bridge, in addition to 40 feet
of 12-inch pipe which had also been installed so as to
carry this drainage into the Bronx River. In order to
connect a catch-basin at the entrance to the picnic grounds
with the 6-inch drain-pipe that carries the drainage into
the river, 115 feet of 6-inch drain-pipe were utilized, and
50 feet of 8-inch pipe were used to convey the drainage
from, the main road to the lake north of the Museum
Building. <A 4-inch drain-pipe 75 feet long connected a
lavatory installed at the Propagating Houses with the
sewer on the Bronx Boulevard.

WATER SUPPLY

Necessary repairs were made to the water systems of
the Museum Building, Conservatory Ranges 1 and 2, the
Propagating Houses, the comfort stations, and to all the
drinking fountains throughout the grounds.

PATHS

A path 240 feet long and 10 feet wide was built and
completed at the Pelham Parkway entrance near the Lin-
nacus Bridge. A 10-foot path 180 feet long to the small
gate was built and completed on the eastern side of the
river, and on its western side, leading to the picnic
grounds, a path 170 feet long and 10 feet wide was built
with liner stones and made ready for Telford stoning.
The paths of the Iris Garden, through the White Pine
Collection, around the terrace of Conservatory Range 1,
and the eastern and western paths near the Museum
Building, as well as all the paths of the northern and
eastern sections of the Garden, were cleaned and resur-
faced. A path 300 feet long and 10 feet wide was made
ready for Telford stones on the northern side of the
Long Lake near the Rose Garden.

BUILDINGS

Necessary repairs were made to the window sashes and
doors as well as to the steam and water systems of the

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Museum Building. The east wing of the second floor of
the Museum Building was partitioned and three small
offices were laid out on the southern side. Twenty-eight
herbarium cases were built and placed on the second floor
of the east wing. Two coats of paint were given to the
east and west exhibition rooms of the basement of the
Museum Building.

At Conservatory Range 1 all the glass and sash bars of
the upper dome of House 1 and the glass and sash bars of
House 11 were replaced. House 11 also received two
coats of paint and all its 3-inch copper leaders were re-
placed with new leaders. The broken glass at Conserva-
tory Ranges 1 and 2 and at the Propagating Houses was
also replaced by the painters.

The brick work from the floor level to the top of all
five boilers at Power House 1 was rebuilt. The four
6-inch valves on the main steam lines from Power House
1 to the Museum Building and to Conservatory Range 1
were replaced and a 6-inch steam-pipe 15 feet 9 inches
long, bent to a template, was used to make repairs in the
trench of Conservatory Range 1.

The heating systems of the Museum Building, Conser-
vatory Ranges 1 and 2, and of the Propagating Hotses
were repaired when necessary by our steam engineers.
Three bowls and eight tanks were used in repairing the
plumbing system of Comfort Station 2 and a lavatory and
two bowls were installed at the Propagating Houses.

GROUNDS

A one-rail fence, 700 feet long, was erected along the
path from the plaza near the New York Central station
to the Moshclu Parkway entrance and another 370 feet
long was put up north of the Mosholu Parkway Entrance.
Along the path from the Elevated Railroad to the Mu-
seum Building 420 feet of a one-rail fence was built and a
one-rail fence, 140 feet long, was placed along the main

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road south of Conservatory Range 1. A two-rail fence,
1,260 feet long, was erected along the path on the western
side of the picnic grounds and another two-rail fence, 210
feet long, was built near the Linnaeus Bridge entrance.
All of this makes a total of 1,630 feet of one-rail fencing
and 1,470 feet of two-rail fencing which has been erected
during the year.

A boundary fence 6 feet high and 109 feet long, with
two gate posts 29 x 29 inches wide and 9 feet 6 inches
high, and two pier posts 20 x20 inches wide and 8 feet
high were constructed on Pelham Parkway east of the
Bronx River near the Linnaeus Bridge. The Pelham
Parkway entrance on the western side of the Bronx
River was completed; to accomplish this, two large posts
46x46 inches x12 feet 2 inches and two posts 35x 35
inches x 9 feet 2 inches were used as gate posts for the
roadway and paths. Two posts 35x 35 inches x 9 feet 2
inches and three posts 20 x 20 inches x 8 feet, with 200 feet
of iron fencing 6 feet high, were built at this entrance on
a foundation 2 feet x 3 feet topped by a cast-stone wall,
with coping stone 2 feet high and 96 feet long. Along the
Southern Boulevard 450 feet of a foundation wall 2x3
feet, with a rubble-stone wall 12 inches high, and eighteen
pier posts 20 x 20 x 12 inches in dimensions were erected.

Repairs were made to the cedar and one- and two-rail
fencing throughout the grounds and the maps and signs
were replaced or repaired wherever necessary. The rus-
tic benches also received needed repairing.

Wood cut from dead or fallen trees supplied the Propa-
gating Houses with fuel for nearly four months and ap-
proximately fifty-five tons of hay were used during the
year. The uprooting of the poison ivy vines in the Gar-
den has also been continued.

About a dozen picnics a week visited the Garden from
May until September, averaging from 75 to 1,500 children
a party. These children, who attend the public and Sun-

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day schools of Greater New York, New Jersey, and Con-
necticut were escorted to the picnic grounds of the Gar-
den by our special guards, who are assigned there daily
during the summer months.

Four uniformed police officers were again assigned to
us each day from ten in the morning until six in the eve-
ning from May until December. They were assisted by
two additional officers in civilian clothes. In order to
assist our own keepers in the patrol of the Garden on
Sundays and holidays, ten guards were selected from the
laborers and gardeners. About 325 summonses were
served by the police officers for violations of park ordi-
nances, the offenders being fined from one to twenty dol-
lars in the magistrates’ courts.

The visitors to the Garden on Saturdays, Sundays, and
holidays during the sammer months numbered about 55,-
000, but during July and August this number was
greatly augmented.

For twenty-four hours a day special guards were as-
signed to the rose, gladiolus, and dahlia collections, and
because of the watchfulness of our employees very little
damage was done to the plantations in general through-
out the grounds.

ARTHUR J. CORBETT,
Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds

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REPORT OF THE HONORARY CURATOR OF THE
ECONOMIC COLLECTIONS FOR THE YEAR 1926

The important event of this year’s history of the Eco-
nomic Museum has been the appropriation of money for
the completion of our label-printing, and for the reprint-
ing of such labels as require correction. As I have
pointed out in previous reports, hundreds of our speci-
mens, now in the cases, are without other identification
records than their serial numbers or slips of paper giv-
ing collection and other data. Quite a number of others,
which possess labels, are better known now than at the
time of their installation, and require more complete
labels. Most of the manuscript for this work is already
written and the printing has been commenced.

In the preparation of new labels, a slight modification
of plan has been introduced, which avoids much useless
repetition, and also saves some space in the cases. When
several specimens of the same article are displayed, only
one complete descriptive label is prepared, the specimens
being grouped around it, each being supplied with a label
that states its individual character.

Another important work that has been practically com-
pleted during the past year is the determination of the
economic products obtained by the Mulford Expedition in
1921-22. Most of the edible fruits of that collection have
proved to represent new species of plants, the descrip-
tions of which have been written and are expected to be
published before the printing of this report. This collec-
tion of wild edible fruits was exhibited at the Fourth In-
ternational Botanical Congress, held in Ithaca, in Sep-
tember last, where it attracted much attention. In con-
nection with the publication of these species, about three
hundred others, with several genera, have been published.

Some interesting additions of edible fruits, mostly in
the family Annonaceae, have been contributed from Flor-
ida, as a result of the discoveries of Dr. Small.

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A set of dressed specimens of Brazilian woods has
been donated by myself, but these are awaiting botanical
determination before being installed.

About twenty-five other specimens, from various
sources, have been added during the year.

H. H. Russy,
Honorary Curator of the Economic Collections

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REPORT OF THE PALEOBOTANIST

The principal item of investigation was concerned with
the Tertiary flora of the Collazo shales of Porto Rico.
An extensive collection of specimens was made during
the period of my sojourn on the island last March, and a
preliminary report upon the results attained was sub-
mitted, and was published in the May issue of the Jour-
nai of the Garden. Subsequently all of the specimens
were subjected to critical examination and all that were
deemed worthy of description were drawn, in preparation
for illustration. The work of identifying and describing
the specimens, in connection with the drawings, has occu-
pied most of my time during the latter part of the year,
and is nearing completion.

I also examined and reported upon a collection of fossil
walnuts and lignite from a deposit of Post-Tertiary age
in the north coast region of Porto Rico, which was made
the subject of an illustrated article published in the Oc-
tober issue of the Journal of the Garden.

Two days were spent in the field work, one with Pro-
fessor M. A. Chrysler, of Rutgers University, examining
fossil plant remains in the Cretaceous clays of Wood-
bridge, New Jersey, and one with Dr. H. A. Gleason, ex-
amining the flora of the serpentine area on and in the
vicinity of Todt Hill, Staten Island.

During the period August 14-22, I was in attendance at
the session of the International Congress of Plant Sci-
ences, held at Ithaca, New York, and December 27-31, I
attended the Philadelphia meeting of the Botanical So-
ciety of America and contributed a paper in connection
with a symposium on ‘‘The geographic background of
taxonomy.”’

It was my privilege to deliver two lectures in the regu-
lar Garden courses, viz., ‘‘A historical review of the study
of fossil plants,’’ and ‘‘Fossil plants of New York City
and vicinity,’? and an Arbor Day address, at the White

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Plains High School, on ‘‘The Sequoias and redwoods of
California.”’

About 200 specimens were added to the paleobotanical
collections, which are included under lots numbered 37-45
in the record book. All but twenty-five of these speci-
mens represent those that were collected in Porto Rico.

Aceessions of paleobotanical literature include twenty-
three octavo and eleven quarto separates, all but five of
which were received as exchanges from twenty-one differ-
ent authors, six of whom represent new contributors.

ArtHurR Ho.tick,
Paleobotanist

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REPORT OF THE HONORARY CURATOR OF MOSSES

The notable event during the year has been the gift
from the estate of the late Dr. George N. Best of his
large collection of mosses with a legacy of $3,000 and the
collection of roses which he made when he was studying
this genus. The herbarium is being mounted and dis-
tributed and the duplicates will be used in exchange.
During the year we have continued to receive sets of Ex-
siccatae, Dr. Grout’s North American Musci Pleurocarpi,
nos. 489-500; Prof. Holzinger’s fascicles 23 and 24, nos.
551-600, and an interesting set of mosses from Arizona
and New Mexico distributed by Mr. Edwin B. Bartram,
who is making his home in Tucson during the winter and
devoting himself to local studies and to the mosses of
Mexico and Central America. He has kindly undertaken
to study the collections made in Costa Rica by Dr. Paul
Standley, and we have supplied him with specimens for
comparison and descriptions of species. We have also
received from the Carnegie Museum some mosses from
Tahiti, and, from Brother Victorin, some from the vicin-
ity of Quebec, Canada. Our own collections from Porto
Rico have been named and incorporated in the Herba-
rium. Dr. George E. Nichols, of Yale University, keeps
on sending us duplicates of his collections from North-
ern Michigan and Brother Leén continues to explore cer-
tain portions of Cuba.

Mr. Williams has served as President of the Sullivant
Moss Society during the year, having been reélected, and
has determined several collections of mosses from Ala-
bama, Louisiana, and Florida, also from Utah, Washing-
ton, and other states. He has also studied some large col-
lections of mosses from Chili and Peru, received from the
Field Museum at Chicago. We have also continued our
exchanges with M. Thériot on South American mosses.

The lantern-slide collection has been cared for by Miss
Lillian Bostock, and all records and accessions and loans

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made under my supervision. 120 slides and 70 negatives
have been added. Mrs. Edward C. Bodman, Chairman of
the Rock Garden Committee of the Advisory Council of
The New York Botanical Garden, very kindly donated
$50.00 to be applied to lantern slides of Rock Garden
plants, and a number of rare and interesting colored
slides have been added to our collection.

T have continued to reply to all letters asking for infor-
mation relative to the protection and cultivation of native
American wild flowers, particularly the Fringed Gentian
and the American Holly. Owing to the publicity given by
the press to letters relating to their conservation, this has
entailed a good deal of letter writing. Dr. Stout col-
lected seed of the Fringed Gentian at Pleasantville and
Dr. Norton and various correspondents were supplied
with small packets. From studies made of the roots,
however, it would appear that a species of mycorhiza of
unknown character is necessary for the successful culti-
vation of Gentiana crinita. In order to demonstrate this,
Dr. Stout has brought down a quantity of the soil where
the Fringed Gentian was found and planted the seeds.
Heretofore all pot-grown plants have been stunted and
failed to make any quantity of flowers or seed.

Potted plants of the American Holly, Ilex opaca, have
been sent to the International Flower Show, to local and
county fairs and other exhibitions, where they have at-
tracted a great deal of attention. Mr. A. E. Hitchcock,
of the Boyce Thompson Institute, has been supplied with
seeds and cuttings from our trees in the Fruticetum, also
with cuttings from an English Holly belonging to Dr.
George Webster, of Decatur Avenue, the Bronx. Owing
to the slow germination of Holly seeds, experiments are
in progress to accelerate the growth from seeds and cut-
tings. A number of growers in Virginia and Delaware
and Florida are growing Holly commercially and it is

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hoped soon to be able to supply the increasing demand of
those who want to grow their own Holly and put a stop
to the destruction of this most beautiful native plant.
Evizapets G. Britton,
Honorary Curator

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REPORT OF THE HONORARY CUSTODIAN OF THE
LOCAL HERBARIUM

The work done in the Local Herbarium during the year,
chiefly by Mrs. William Mitchell, has been largely as fol-
lows:

Sorting and distributing of some accumulations of
mounted material.

Sorting of the monocotyledons of the Bicknell Herba-
rium (exclusive of Gramineae), by genus, species, and
date into sets for future use, as well as writing labels for
each sheet, beginning with Typhaceae. Records have
been kept of the determination, exact locality, and date of
each species of Mr. Bicknell’s own collecting. The genus
Carex is especially well represented by 2,733 sheets and
is now arranged so as to facilitate the final determination
by a Carex expert.

A set of aquatic plants, consisting of 182 specimens
from the Bicknell Herbarium, was made up and sent to
Dr. Hugo Gltick, Heidelberg, in exchange for Kuropean
plants.

Accessions for 1926 amount to 112. Twenty-nine speci-
mens have been pressed, mounted, and distributed.

An additional case will be needed in the Local Herba-
rium before a set of the local Bicknell specimens can be
incorporated with the present Herbarium, as there is
practically no room at present for expansion.

H. M. Denstow,
Honorary Custodian of the Local Herbarium

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REPORT OF THE CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF
SCIENTIFIC DIRECTORS

The Board of Scientific Directors have held their regu-
lar meetings through the year, and have discussed many
problems relating to the present and future work of the
Garden.

In the death of Dr. James Furman Kemp we have lost
one of our most valued members. Dr. Kemp was a char-
ter member of the Garden, and for many years secretary
of its Board of Scientific Directors.

The significant achievements of the year in the main-
tenance and further development of the Garden’s already
very extensive collections of plants, in its educational
activities, and in its special research work and publica-
tions, are presented in the report of the Director-in-Chief.

From the standpoint of the material now available at
the Garden for experimental work in plant breeding, it is
interesting to note that the special collections of Dahlias,
Roses, Lilies, and Iris have been maintained at a high
standard of excellence during the past year. The careful
identification and checking up of both new and old types
in all these groups is going on satisfactorily, and the
value of the collections as material for further genetical
work is thus being continually enhanced. The experimen-
tal work in growing many species of Lilies from seed
promises to clear up certain difficult problems as to meth-
ods of propagation in this long-studied genus.

The dual purpose of such collections, and the advan-
tages which accrue from their location in a great metro-
politan garden, where they serve both as attractive deco-
rative displays and at the same time furnish material for
intensive genetic analysis, has been often noted in these
reports but can hardly be overemphasized.

These collections of selected highly decorative types
also afford the best of opportunities for the early detec-
tion of, and research upon, the diseases and parasitic

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pests of ornamental plants. During the current year
study has been begun upon what appears to be a virus dis-
ease of dahlias. For several years past this disease has
been doing considerable damage and attracting much at-
tention from dahlia growers.

The Garden, as a part of the park system of New York,
is confronted with many very pressing questions as to the
varieties of trees and shrubs best adapted for decorative
planting under city conditions. The further problems as
to the minimum and optimum soil and atmospheric re-
quirements for such varieties are much in need of more
exact determination. The location and general topog-
raphy of the Garden makes it especially well suited for
such experimental work. With the additional funds which
have been secured during the year, through its adminis-
trative officers and the campaign committee of the Board
of Managers, the Garden may well look forward with re-
newed confidence in the hope of obtaining still further
support, and to an increase of its research activities in
many lines of plant science.

R. A. Harper,
Chairman, Board of Scientific Directors

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TREASURER’S REPORT FOR THE YEAR ENDING
DECEMBER 31, 1926
John L. Merrill, Treasurer

EXHIBIT I
BALANCE SHEET
December 31, 1926

Permanent Fund A

Investments ee TI) st ened Beas . $1,763 823.29
Cash awaiting investment... 0. wu... 60,858.47
————— $1,824,681.76

Permanent fund assets expended for

current uses (see current fund lia-
Dility Per COMLTA) ee. cee cesses sens coe 49,546.68
—————— _ $1,874,228.44

Current and Working Assets:
Cash in banks and on hand

rpos $ 20,906.30

Spe ae purposes .. ... 9,305.63
$ 30,211.93
Accounts receivable—City maintenance 15,584.58
Interest and dividends receivable (Exhibit III) . 26,763.52
Prepaid insurance premiums ‘ 541.51

$ 73,101.54

$1,947,329.98

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EXHIBIT I
BALANCE SHEET
December 31, 1926

Permanent Funds (Exhibit IV):
Restricted endowments $ 154,367.47
Unrestricted endowments, including unconditional
equests set aside by the Board of Managers as

permanent funds 1,702,860.97
Special endowment, with life interest in respect of
income therefrom 17,000.00

$1,874,228.44
Current Liabilities and Special Funds:
Current liabilities:

ecounts abl $ 4,282.56
Special funds (Exhibit V):
nexpended income from restricted
funds $ 3,232.13
Unexpended income from contributions
set aside by the Board of Managers
For specific PULPOSES occ enceecenmrnersnneeesnes 6,073.50
—_—- 9,305.63
Deferred income credits
Membership dues see in advance..........$ 445.00
Subscriptions paid in advanee. ............ 220.00
—_——- 665.00
oo to permanent funds for expenditures
fund assets for current use 49,546.68
Fae
ewes of income over expenditures for
the year ending December 31, 26
(Exhibit IT) $13,082.98

Less—Deficiency at December 31,
1925 2 3,781.31 9,301.67

73,101.54

$1,947 329.98
CERTIFICATE OF AUDITORS

ss have panes the books and accounts of The New York Botanical Garden

for the year end cember 31, 1926, and certify that the attached balance

ce pecan TI) en msi statements (Exhibits II to V, inclusive) are cor-

rectly prepared therefrom, and, in our opinion, set forth fairly the financial posi-

tion of the corporation as at ye ebatier 31, 1926, and the transactions for the
year ended on that date.

APRIL 11, 1927 Prick, WATERHOUSE & Co.

EXHIBIT

II

Statement of Operations for the Year Ending December 31, 1926

City Reatricted
liiaintenanee General fe pied Total
Incom
ee a investments of
d $ 85,337.19] $ 7,558.84) $ 92,896.03
$225,000.00] 12,683.99 7,500.00 245, 183.99
Member bie dues:
— 14,310.00 14,310.00
Sustaining . svete 475.00 475.00
Balea of Plants, “duplicate
books, 2 689,25 689.25
Subscriptions ‘and sales of
publications 3,153.67 1,871.95] 5,025.62
aa income .....-...-.. ~| $225,000.00) $116,649.10] $ 16,930.79] $358,579.89
Expenses
Main otaaies and general ex-
penses:
Salaries of Director-in-
chief, assistants and Gar-
den staff _ : #156, oe 42) $ 36,953.48 $193,060.90
Wages 0.00] 12,456.55 36,666.55
Materials and supplie We rr 58 2,586.62) | 47, "269. 20
a ee tintin, os at
ee a 8) ° 3,438. 7 3,438.13
932. 232.55
1,550. 58 1,550.58
OUS) 2eeticekdes. 3,616.78 3,616.78
Expenses in connection with
increase of endowment and 4,149.30} | __ 4,149.30
development plan -| $225,000.00/ $ 64,983.99 $289,983.99
aia and exhibits:
Improvements to buildings a
and gro ee sf sath auaetios atin $ 19,645.32) $ 4,980.00] $ 24,625.32
Mus equipment purchased 3,980.58 |~ 3,980.58
Libra is equ pm ment agai 950.
es ory equipment ae
sed . 293 293.22
Library books, bindings, ‘ete... 4,753.33 2,546.66 7,299.99
Mus specimens .......-W... 125.73] 140.02] ° 265.75
Plant Gurchee ond expenses 2.66" 433.58) 1,336.24
Botanical exploration and col- ;
ections - - 532.76 1,100.00|- 1,632.76
Model Gaiden prizes e 200.00
$ 31,183.60) $ 9,400.26] $ 40,583.86
Education and researe
Pu nae lectures aa Tiatete
1,460.99 446.50]. 1,907.49
ae aa ete. q....... 000.00 7200.00
Rese - 5,271.62 4, 15 9,672.77
9
eetcnress and preserva- pee 401.73 Bein)
tion of native plants 6.99
7,398.53 5,296.37] $ 12,694.90
1 expenses $225,000.00) $103,566.12) $ 14,696.63) $343,262.75

Tot
Excess of income over ex-
penses for the y ane

$ 13,082.98

$ 2,234.16

$ 15,317.14

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EXHIBIT III
Summary of Investments December 31, 1926

Accrued [Average
. interest yield
Par Pee | Book a d year
value valu value dividends jon basis
° ec. 31, lof book
1926 ue
General funds:
Bonds oeccicsenennnee(® 565,000.00/$ 551,264.64/$ 550,490.11/$ 7,596.45) 4.85%
Stocks:
Preferred 0. 15,000.00 17,025.00 16,302.50 237.50! 5.83
$ 580,000.00/$ 568,289.64/$ 566,792.61\$ 7,833.95| 4.88%
Sage Fund:
Bonds veces noen| 570,000.00/$ 553,348.14)$ 510,458.81/$ 10,028.74] 5.41%
70,000.00 79,793.75 67,121.87 762.50] 6.26
72,200.00} 141,536.00 93,762.50 1,805.00] 7.78
$ 712,200.00/$ 774,677.89/$ 671,343.18/$ 12,596.24) 5.90%
Endowment and Devel-
opment Fund:
Bonds oneness | 220,000.001$ 224,131.25'% 220,158.75/$ 2,708.33] 5.00%
Stocks:
Preferred wusccn-| 242,500.00} 292,803.12) 288,528.75 3,625.00] 5.54
$ 462,500.00/$ 516,934.37/$ 508,687.50|$ 6,333.33) 5.30%
Special Trust Fund:
170 shs. All America
Cables, Inc., stock. 17,000.00 24,650.00 17,000.00) erence 7.00%
$1,771,700.00 ($1,884,551.90/$1,763,823.29/$ 26,763.52) 5.41%

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EXHIBIT IV
Statement of Permanent Funds, Showing Changes during the Year Ending
December 3i, 1926
ree Additions Deductions oe i a
. 1, 192
Baas endowments:
End ent for Nlente and edu-
{8 89,115.49 $ 89,115.49
= 21,149.31 21,149.31
Fund 10,347.63 10,347.63
und . 25,000.00 25, 000. 00
: aroline Phelps
Stokes Fund . 3,000.00 3,000.00
es Budd Robinson Fund . . 735.04 755.04
e H. H. Memorial Fund. 5,000.00 5,000.00
$ 154,367.47 $ 154,367.47
Unrestricted endowments:
Endowment Fund 228,013.54/$ 500.00 $ 228,513.54
David Lydig Fu nd. 34,3378 34,337.86
Se Research Fund 4,776.00 410.00 5,186.00
m R. Sands Fund ... 10,000.0 10,000.00
reat Ogden Mills Fund — i 48,099.17 48,099.17
Henry Iden Fund... ... : 10,000.00 10,000.00
Fanny Bridgham Fund .... = 30,000.00 30,000.00
Francis Lynde Stetson Fund... 25,000.00 25,000.00
Russell Sage and Margaret
via Sage Memorial Fund ........ 709,539.37| 14,293.02 723,832.39
Frances Griscom Parsons Fund.. 2,304.67 2,304.67
Endowment and yee
cits rn 292,101.00) 274,349.50! $499.50 565,951.00
The Charles Patrick Daly ¢ ‘and
Maria Lydig Daly Fund ....... 19,636.34 19,636.34
$1,413,807.95/$289 552.52 $499.50 |$1,702.860.97
Special endowments
Special Trust Fund Le weve eel 17,000.00 $ 17,000.00
$1,585,175.42/$289,552.52) $499.50 |$1,874,228.44

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EXHIBIT V
SPECIAL Funps
Statement of Application of Income from Restricted Permanent Funds and
Special Contributed Funds Designated for Specific Purposes

Balance at . |Balance at
an. Additions |"*PeRd | Dee. 31,
1926 1926
pe a is eae Funds:
Endowment for science and edu-
cane
Publie lectures and instruction,
researc an publica ations
other than oe sonia’? .......| $ 447.51) $ 4,363.681$ 3,942.15) $ 869.04
rere Brown
oe of Aadisonia” as 499.83 2,907.56) 3,407.39) on eccuue
John Innes Kane Fun
Plant purchases and expenses... 445.47 506.69 433.58 518.58
Maria De Witt Jesup Fund:
Botanical pret oceans 321.35 1,224.16 140.02 1,405.49
Olivia = and Caroline Phelps
tokes Fun
Investigation aud preservation
of native plants occ ese 201.57 146.90 46.99 301.48
Charles Buad Robinson Fund:
Exploration oo. oes cesses setseeetastee 65.03 36.97 100.00 2.00
The H. ‘Mem 1 Fund:
Development of ‘lodal gardens. 90.71 244.83 200.00 135.54

$2,071.47] $ 9,430.79/$ 8,270.13) $3,232.13

eneeey Funds contributed for spe-
urpo

He ce C. Inslee ” bequest ae
nated by the Board of Man

ers ee ee of La

idge Entrance ..........- $5,000.00 $ 4,980.00) $ 20.00

$ 1,000.00} 1,000.00

s and lantern slides ........ 500.00 446.50 53.50

Contribution of Trustees of Car-
negie Corpn. for program of
Public education wa. cece : 6,000.00 6,000.00
$5,000.00) $ 7,500.00/$ 6,426.50] $6,073.50

$7,071.47| $16,930.791$14,696.63] $9,305.63

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REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON PATRONS,
FELLOWS, AND MEMBERS FOR THE
YEAR 1926
The number of new members who have qualified is 131.
The number of annual members is now 1,527; life mem-

bers 125; sustaining members 21.

Of the annual members 69 are now in arrears for dues
for 1926, 26 for dues for 1925 and 1926, 19 for dues for
1924, 1925, and 1926.

Dues have been collected to the amount of $14,960.

Two persons have qualified as ife members by the pay-
ment of $250 each. These sums have been transmitted
to the treasurer.

A complete list of all classes of members to date is
herewith submitted:

BENEFACTORS
Edward D. Adams, Edward S. Harkness,
*Mrs. Fanny Bridgham, *D, O. Mills,
*Hon. Addison Brown, *J. Pierpont Morgan, Sr.,
* Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller,
Columbia University, John D. Rockefeller, Jr.,
*Hon. Charles P. Daly, *Mrs. Russell Sage,
Daniel Guggenheim, ie *Francis Lynde Stetson,
Murry Guggenheim, , *Cornelius Vanderbilt.
PATRONS "
Oakes Ames, James B. Ford,
*Miss Catherine A. Bliss, *William B. Ford,
Dr. N. L. Britton, *George J. Gould,
*Hon. Addison Brown, Edward S. Harkness,
* Andrew Carnegie, *Mrs. Esther Herrman,
*Mrs. George Whitfield Collord, Frederick Trevor Hill,
*Mrs. Louisa Combe, Archer M. Huntington,
*James M. Constable, *Henry Iden,
Charles Deering, *Mrs. Helen C. Inslee,
*William E. Dodge, Mrs. John Innes Kane,

* Deceased

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*John Stewart Kennedy,
*Mrs. Mary J. Kingsland,
Prof. Frederic 8S. Lee,
Mrs. Frederic 8. Lee,
*J. Pierpont Morgan, Sr.,
*Oswald Ottendorfer,
*Lowell M. Palmer, oe.
*William Rockefeller, :

*William R. Sands,
*William C. Schermerhorn,
*James A. Scrymser,

Mrs. Finley J. Shepard,
*Samuel Sloan,
*Mrs. Frederick F. Thompson,
*W. K. Vanderbilt,

Mrs. Antoinette Eno Wood.

FELLows For Lire

Edward D. Adams,
George F. Baker,

Miss Elizabeth Billings,
Dr. N. L. Britton,

Mrs. N. L. Britton,

Mrs. Andrew Carnegie,
Mrs. W. Bayard Cutting,
Dr. Robert W. de Forest,
James B. Ford,

Daniel Guggenheim,
Murry Guggenheim,

8. R. Guggenheim,

Mrs. William L. Harkness,
Mrs. John Stewart Kennedy,

Prof. Frederic 8S. Lee,
Mrs. Frederic 8. Lee,
Ogden Mills,

J. P. Morgan,

Mrs. Lewis R. Morris,
K. A. Richard,

Mrs. John A. Roebling,
Mortimer L. Schiif,
Leon Schinasi,

Miss Olivia E. Phelps Stokes,
Charles G. Thompson,
Louis C. Tiffany,
Tiffany & Company.

Lire MEMBERS

Edward D. Adams,

Dr. Felix Adler,

Dr. 8. T. Armstrong,
Edward W. C. Arnold,
Mrs. Hugh D. Auchincloss,
Dr. John Hendley Barnhart,
George A. Barron,

Aurel Batonyi,

Gustav Baumann,

Samuel R. Betts,

William G. Bibb,

Miss Elizabeth Billings,

* Deceased

Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss,
George Blumenthal,

Mrs. Andrew Carnegie,
T. Morris Carnegie,
Miss Marian Roby Case,
Frank R. Chambers,
Hugh J. Chisholm,
Hugh J. Chisholm, Jr.,
George C. Clark,

Banyer Clarkson,

Dr. James B. Clemens,
William F. Cochran,
W. R. Coe

William Colgate,

Miss Georgette T. A. Collier,

W. E. Conner,

Mrs. F. A. Constable,
S. Wilbur Corman,

R. N. Cranford,
Melville C. Day,
Charles Deering,

Mrs. John Ross Delafield,
Maturin L. Delafield,
W. B. Dickerman,
Miss Josephine W. Drexel,
Miss Ethel DuBois,
William A. DuBois,
George E. Dunscombe,
Thomas Dwyer,
George Ehret,
Ambrose K. Ely,

Dr. John F. Erdmann,
Edward J. Farrell,
Marshall Field,

Mrs. H. J. Fisher,
Andrew Fletcher,
Charles R. Flint,
Eugene G. Foster,
Mrs. John French,
Childs Frick,

Daniel Guggenheim,
Bernard G. Gunther,
Franklin L. Gunther,
Charles J. Harrah,
Dr. Louis Haupt,

R. Somers Hayes,
John Hubbard,
Archer M. Huntington,

(234)

Frank D. Hurtt,

James H. Hyde,

Mrs. Columbus O’D. Iselin,
Dr. Walter B. James,
Miss Annie B. Jennings,
Mrs. David J. Kelley,
Nathaniel T. Kidder,

H. R. Kunhardt,

W. B. Kunhardt,

Charles Lanier,

W. V. Lawrence,

Mrs. George Lewis,
Joseph Loth,

William H. Macy, Jr.,
Louis Marshall,

Edgar L. Marston,
William J. Matheson,

Cc. W. McAlpin,

A. G. Mills,

Mrs. William F. Milton,
Dr. Lewis R. Morris,
Newbold Morris,
Sigmund Neustadt,

A. Lanfear Norrie,
Gordon Norrie,

George M. Olcott,

Mrs. Charles Tyler Olmstead,
William Church Osborn,
W. Hz. Perkins,

Curt C. Pfeiffer,
Gustavus A. Pfeiffer,

M. Taylor Pyne,

Miss Florence E. Quinlan,
John J. Riker,

J. C. Rodgers,

Thomas F. Ryan,

Mrs. Herbert L. Satterlee,
Dr. Reginald H. Sayre,
Edward C. Schaefer,

(235)

Mortimer L. Schiff,
Mrs. I. Blair Scribner,
George Sherman,
James Shewan,

Miss Marion Smith,
James Speyer,

Miss Ellen J. Stone,
Albert Tag,

Paul G. Thebaud,
Charles G. Thompson,
Robert M. Thompson,

William Thorne,
Oswald W. Uhl,

Miss Anna Murray Vail,
F, T. Van Beuren,

Mrs. C. Vanderbilt,

F, M. Warburg,

John I. Waterbury,

S. D. Webb,

Dr. W. Seward Webb,
John D. Wing,

Mrs. Anna Woerishoffer.

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Miss Elizabeth Billings,
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Mrs. F. J. Godsol,

John Greenough,

Mrs. E. V. C. Hawkes,
O. H. Kahn,

Mrs. Frida Merz Krolipfeiffer,
Edgar L. Marston,
George Grant Mason,
Arthur M. Mitchell,
William Church Osborn,

William H. Porter,

Mrs. Mabel Prell,
Edward Prizer,

Mrs. James T. Pyle,

Mrs. Stanley Resor, |

J. E. Spingarn,

Dr. Edward H. Squibb,
William R. Stewart,
Charles Strauss,

Arthur Hays Sulzberger.

ANNUAL MEMBERS

Dr. Robert Abbe,
Benjamin Abert,
John Achelis,

C. E. Adams,
Mrs. Elbridge L. Adams,
RF lams,

Henry 8S. Adams,

Maurice D. Adams,

Mrs. George B. Agnew,
Carl J. R. Abrnke,

J. E. Aldred,

Mrs. Winthrop W. Aldrich,
Mrs. W. H. Aldridge,

Sir Douglas Alexander, Bart.
Mrs. John W. Alexander,
Mrs. Frederick Allen,
James F. Allen,

Philip Allen,

Dr. C. Ludwig Ambos,
Mrs. O. P. Amend,

Lindsay C. Amos,

Mrs. Alexander L. Anderson,
P. Chauncey Anderson,

J. M. Andreini,

Miss Charlotte L. Andrews,
W. Edson Andrews,

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D. A. Ansbacher, Felice Bava,

Mrs. John F. Archbold, Mrs. L. P. Bayne,
Francis J. Arend, Jeremiah Beall,
Reuben Arkush, John D. Beals,

Mrs. H. O. Armour, Edward E. Bechtel,
Benjamin Walworth Arnold, Lewis Bechtold,

Dr. William Aronstein, Frank Begrisch, Jr.,

B. M. Asch, Mrs. A. Frederick Behre,
Mrs. M. Ascher, Dr. Otto F. Behrend,
Mrs. George H. Ashdown, Frank N. Bell,

Mrs. E. 8S. Auchincloss, William B. Bell,

Mrs. EB. S. Auchinceloss, Jr., A. Beller,

John W. Auchincloss, Alex. Benecke,
Harmon Spencer August, Andre L. Benel,

Chellis A. Austin, Mrs. W. W. Benjamin,
Charles F. Ayer, J. Philip Benkard,
Frank L. Babbott, Bruno Benziger,

Jules 8. Bache, ee Charles F. Berger,
Isaac D. Bachmann, . T. Berggren,
Mrs. Earle Bailie, oe ren R. Bernheim,
Charles Baird, Isaac J. Bernheim,
Robert B. Baird, Charles L. Bernheimer,
Miss Charlotte 8. Baker, Miss Rosie Bernheimer,
George F. Baker, Dr. Israel I. Bernstein,
Stephen Baker, Philip Berolzheimer,
Albert H. Baldwin, Edward J. Berwind,
George V. N. Baldwin, Jr., Miss Ellen I. Betty,
William D. Baldwin, Mrs. George Biddle,
Ancell H. Ball, Mrs. Sylvan Bier,

Mrs. D. C. Ball, Nathan I. Bijur,
Edward L. Ballard, Samuel H. Bijur,
Louis Bamberger, Raymond Bill,

Mrs. Thomas H. Barber, C. K. G. Billings,
Percival M. Barker, Richard Billings,

Mrs. John Hampton Barnes, Cecil Billington,
William M. Barnum, Mrs. John F. Birch,
Mrs. H. G. Bartol, Miss Katherine H. Birchall,
Mrs. Martha Battle, Mrs. Charles E. Birge,

George de Forest Barton, James C. Bishop,

George H. Bissinger,
Mrs. Robert C. Black,
Frederick S. Blackall,
H. C. Blackiston,
Mrs. Dexter Blagden,
Mrs. Emmons Blaine,
J. Insley Blair,
Isidore Blauner,

Samuel Shipley Blood,
Lewis M. Bloomingdale,
Mrs. M. J. Bluen,

Dr. Richard Blum,

Hugo Blumenthal,

Sidney Blumenthal,

Mrs. Albert B. Boardman,
Bradford Boardman,

Mrs. Philip W. Boardman,
Miss R. C. Boardman,
Mrs. Edward C. Bodman,

Theodore Boettger,
William H. Bolton,

Dr. Samuel Bookman,
Mrs. Howard S. Borden,
Mrs. Sydney C. Borg,
Louis Boury,

L. R. Bowden,

Miss Edith G. Bowdoin,
George T. Bowdoin,
Spotswood D. Bowers,
George P. Bowman,
John Hall Bowman,
John McE. Bowman,
Miss Mabel Boyd,

R. E. Boyd,

(237)

Mrs. Marius de Brabant,
Dr. Bernard Braveman,
Mrs. Jennie M. Breitenbach,
Mrs. Mollie F. Breitenbach,
George P. Brett,

Edward R. Brevoort,
George 8. Brewster,

Hans V. Briesen,

Mrs. James E. Briggs,
John R. Brinley,

Mrs. Willard C. Brinton,
Jno. I. D. Bristol,

Miss H. Louise Britton,
Richard H. Britton,
Bronx Hay & Grain Co.,
Thornhill Broome,

Ernest C. Brower,

Miss Aneita D. Brown,
Mrs. Archibald M. Brown,
Charles Hilton Brown,
Dickson Q. Brown,

Edwin H. Brown,
Franklin Q. Brown,

Mrs. Franklin Q. Brown,

Mrs. George McKesson Brown,

Mrs. Harold Brown,
Ronald K. Brown,

Mrs. Thatcher M. Brown,
Vernon C. Brown,
Warren D. Brown,

Mrs. J. Hull Browning,
Charles E. Bryant,
Miss Emily Buch,

Miss Anna J. Buechner,
Mrs. Jonathan Bulkley,
Dr. L. Duncan Bulkley,
Dr. Edward 8S. Burgess,
Louis Burk,

Thomas Burkhard,

Mrs. F. A. Burlingame,
E. R. Burnett,

Algernon T. Burr,
Albert C. Burrage,
William F. Burt,
Donald F. Bush, Jr.,
Mrs. Wendell L. Bush,
Charles S. Butler,

Miss Emily O. Butler,
H. A. Caesar,

James P. Cahen,

Mrs. Leopold Cahn,

E. T. Caldwell,

Prof. Otis W. Caldwell,
Mrs. R. J. Caldwell,
Miss Emma W. Calkins,
W. R. Callender,

Henry L. Calman,
Henry L. Cammann,
Mrs. John Campbell,
Mrs. Robert James Campbell,
Miss Frances Campion,
Henry B. Cannon,

H. W. Cannon,

Mrs. Charles F. Cantine,
Harry Caplin,

Mrs. Lister Carlisle,
Arthur L. Carns,

Mrs. J. Henry Carson,
Mrs. Ernest T. Carter,
Dr. Louis Casamajor,
George B. Case,

Alvin C. Cass,

Mrs. William E. Cassell,
Frank J. Cassidy,
Robert M. Catts,

Mrs. E. Gerry Chadwick,
Joseph P Chamberlain,
Norman Wilmer Chandler,

(238)

Mrs. Chamberlain Chanler,
Robert W. Chanler,

Mrs. Winthrop Chanler,
Mrs. Charles Merrill Chapin,
Miss Cornelia Van A. Chapin,
Miss Maria Bowen Chapin,
Mrs. Clarence E. Chapman,
John Jay Chapman,

José Edward Chaves,

D. Durant Cheever,

Mrs. George L. Cheney,
Miss Mary Cheney,

Paul H. Cheney,

Noah Chertoff,

5S. W. Childs,

George E. Chisholm,

B. Ogden Chisolm,

Miss Caroline Choate,

Mrs. Joseph H. Choate,
Miss Mabel Choate,

Perey Chubb,

Charles T. Church,
Richard N. L. Church,
Church of Our Lady of Mercy,
John Claflin,

Miss E. Mabel Clark,

F. Ambrose Clark,

Mrs. George Halford Clark,
James L. Clark,

William Clark,

E. A. 8. Clarke,

Lewis L. Clarke,

Albert Clayburgh,
Neweomb Cleveland,

A. Polhemus Cobb,

G. D. Cochran,

Miss Marv T. Cockcroft,
Edmund Coffin,

E. W. Coggeshall,

William N. Cohen,
William W. Cohen,

Mrs. Rufus Cole,

Charles B. Colebrook,

C. Philip Coleman,

Miss Fannie Coleman,
Mrs. Russell Colgate,
William Colgate,
Barron G. Collier,

Mrs. Robert J. Collier,
Mrs. Richard C. Colt,
Mrs. Barnes Compton,
Miss Mary Compton,
Martin Conboy,

T. G. Condon,

Herman Conheim,
Joseph Conners,

Mrs. E. C. Converse,

J. N. Conyngham,

Dr. Robert A. Cooke,
Robert Anthony Cooke,
James Bliss Coombs,
Marin LeBrun Cooper,
Mrs. Martin LeBrun Coopcr,
George Eustis Corcoran,
Miss Louise I. Corell,

H. C. Cornwall,

J. George Costello,

Mrs. Charles Henry Coster,
Mrs. Clarkson Cowl,

J. Howard Cowperthwait,
Mrs. Lewis J. Cox,

Miss Louise G. Crabbe,
Charles R. Crane,
George F. Crane,

Mrs. Jonathan H. Crane,
William Crawford,

Miss Mary C. Crimmins,
Mrs. Thomas Crimmins,

(239)

George A. Crocker, Jr.,
Mrs. W. H. Crocker,
Rev. W. T. Crocker,
Dr. William Crocker,
James W. Cromwell,
Miss Mary R. Cross,
Mrs. R. J. Cross,

ouch,
Mrs. Joseph F. Cullman,
Mrs. E. B. Currier,
F, Kingsbury Curtis,
B, A. Cushman,
R. Fulton Cutting,

Miss Bleanor De Graff Cuyler,

Mrs. Chester Dale,
Frederic A. Dallett,

Mrs. Ira Davenport,
DeWitt A. Davidson,

J. Clarence Davies,

Mrs. R. C. Davis,

Mrs. Ora Harkness Davis,
Alvah Davison,

Mrs. Henry P. Davison,
Clarenee M. Day,
Clarence 8. Day,

Joseph P. Day,

Henry Dazien,

D. B. Dearborn, Jr.,
Henry L. de Forest,

Dr. Robert W. de Forest,
Mrs. Robert W. de Forest,
John F. Degener, Jr.,
Mrs. Carl A. de Gersdorff,
Mrs. G. de Hasperg,

Mrs. Carlos de Heredia,
George T. Delacorte, Jr.,
Lyman Delane,

Moreau Delano,

(240)

William Adams Delano,
William C. DeLanoy,
Edwin H. Denby,
John B. Dennis,

Rev. H. M. Denslow,
William P. Deppe,
Julian F, Detmer,

Lee Deutsch,

Miss Harriet N. Devotion,
William G. De Witt,
Fairman R. Dick,

Mrs. A. H. Diebold,
George H. Diehl,
Charles F. Dietrich,
H. O. Dill,

Miss Gertrude Dodd,
Mrs. Cleveland H. Dodge,
Mrs. Murray W. Dodge,
Mrs. Washington Dodge,
Edward L. Doheny,
John Louis Dohme,
Bayard Dominick,

Gayer G. Dominick,

L. W. Dommerich,

Otto L. Dommerich,

Mrs. John W. Donaldson,
Gustave Donat,

Mrs. Ruger Donoho,

Mrs. Charles Doscher,
Henry Doscher,

Mrs. Frank Nelson Doubleday,
Miss Elizabeth Douglas,
Mrs. George William Douglas,
Walter Douglas,

Joseph Dowd,

William J. Downer,

Tracy Dows,

Mrs. B. F. Drakenfeld,

S. F. Dribben,

Isaac W. Drummond,

Rev. William J. Duane, 8. J.,
Mrs. Matthew B. DuBois,

F. L. Du Bosque,

Mrs. Edward K. Dunham,
H. F. du Pont,

Henry A. du Pont,

Pierre 8. du Pont,

Mrs. P. 8. du Pont,

Mrs. T. Coleman du Pont,
Wilham du Pont,

Eugene W. Durkee,

Mrs. Theresa Mayer Durlach,

Joseph N. Early,

Mrs. Frederick H. Eaton,
Henry J. Eckstein,

Mrs. James A. Eddy,

Mrs. Charles N. Edge,
Thomas C. Edmonds,

Mrs. J. S. Ehrich,

Mrs. Ernest Ehrmann,

Karl Eilers,

August Eimer,

Max Eisman,

Mrs. Robert G. Elbert,
Howard Elliott,

John 8. Ellsworth,

Mrs. Leonard Knight Elmhirst,
Miss Lydia F. Emmet,

Robert Temple Emmett,

Mrs. Arthur B. Emmons,

Mrs. William C. Endicott, Jr.,
Mrs. Wiliam E. English,

(241)

R. Erbsloh

Albert J. Brdnann

Miss Katherine V. RB. Erving,
Henry Esberg,

Louis Ettlinger,

Mrs. mani: Fabbri,
Eberhard Faber,

Harris Fahnestock,

G. Failla

Arthur S. Fairchild,
Benjamin T. Fairchild,
Mrs. Charles 8. Fairchild,
Samuel W. Fairchild,
Mrs. De Witt Clinton Falls,
Mrs. Max Farrand,
Mrs. Francis C. Farwell,
Mrs. Louise Fatton,

Dr. St. George Fechtig,
Leo Feist,

HE. Fellman,

Mrs. Joseph Fels,

Mrs. Henry Ferguson,
Louis Ferguson,
William C. Ferguson,
Mansfield Ferry,

Mrs. T. C. Figgatt,
Frank H. Filley,

Oliver Filley,

Mrs. Hamilton Fish,
Edwin A. Fisher,
Frederick T. Fisher,
Samuel H. Fisher,
Benjamin F. Fitch,

Mrs. Benson Flag

Harry Harkness “Plagler,
Horace C. Flanigan,

Fred T. Fleitmann,
Harry A. Florsheim,
Edward H. Floyd-Jones,
Julius H. B. Fogg,
Maynard D. Follin,
Herbert Fordham,

Mrs. G. Lisle Forman,
James B. A. Fosburgh,
Pell W. Foster,

W. F. Foulk,

Carl H. Fowler,

Robert L. Fowler, Jr.,
Frederick P. Fox,
George I. Fox,

Mrs. Irma A. Fox,

Mrs. M. J. Fox,

Mrs. William Fox,
Joseph 8. Frank,
David J. Frankel,

R. A. Franks,
Alexander V. Fraser,
Mrs. George C. Fraser,
Miss Jane K. Fraser,
Miss S. Grace Fraser,
Mrs. Leopold Frederick,
Mrs. Charles D. Freeman,
Mrs. lees eer
Mrs. Childs F

Mrs. Angelika, z Frink,
A. 8. Frisseil,

John W. Frothingham,
John H. Fry

John = Fulle,

E. A. Funke,

Mrs. E. V. Gabriel,
Eugenio Galban,

Albert Gallatin,

Mrs. Howard S. Gans,
Mrs. Curtis Gardiner,

Warren A. Gardner,
Francis P. Garvin,

Mrs. Walter Geer,

S. Gernsback,

Fred P. Geyer,

R. W. Gibson,

Prof. William J. Gies,
Mrs. William J. Gies,

R. L. Giffen,

J. Waldron Gillespie,
Mrs. Bernard F. Gimbel,
Mrs. Isaac Gimbel,
James E. Gledhill,

John M. Glenn,

Mrs. E. D. Godfrey,
Harold Godwin,

Mrs. Mary R. Goelet,
Dr. S. Ormond Goldan,
Julius Goldman,

Dr. Alfred N. Goldsmith,
Frederick Goldsmith,
Jonah J. Goldstein,
Louis Goldstein,
Abraham L. Goldstone,
Mrs. M. L. Goldstone,
Philip J. Goodhart,
James C. Goodrich,
Philip L. Goodwin,
Edwin Gould,

M. K. Goulder,

Mrs. Hugh J. Grant,
Joseph W. Grant,

Miss Eleanor M. Greacen
Mrs. C. Douglass Green,
Jerome D. Greene,
Henry E. Gregory,
William M. Greve,

Mrs. John Gribbel,
Charles E. Griffin,

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(242)

W. V. Griffin,

Miss Susan D. Griffith,

E. Morgan Grinnell,

George Bird Grinnell,

Mrs. William E. 8. Griswold,
Miss Ethel Grow,

William C. Gruner,

Archibald A. Gulck,
William D. Guthrie,
Ralph W. Gwinn,

Miss Edith Haas,

Mrs. Harold W. Hack,
John A. Hadden, Jr.,
John H. Hall, Jr.,

Mrs. Charles W. Halsey,
William Hamann,

L. Gordon Hamersley,
Miss Elizabeth 8. Hamilton,
Lester A. Hamilton,
Mrs. Morgan Hamilton,
Mrs. Harry L. Hamlin,
Lyman P. Hammond,
George F. Handel,
Ferdinand Hansen,
Vivian Harcourt,

Mrs. W. P. Hardenbergh,
Williat B. Hardin,

J. Montgomery Hare,

E. 8. Harkness,

Miss Josephine T. Harriot,
Dr. Allis F. Hascall,
Mrs. Jacob Hasslacher,
Joshua A. Hatfield,

Dr. Louis Hauswirth,

T. A. Havemeyer,

J. Woodward Haven,
Carroll Hayes,

Mrs. O. H. Hayes,
Mrs. William Valzah Hayes,
Miss Caroline C. Haynes,
W. de F. Haynes,
Davis 8S. Hays,
Rowland Hazard,
Mrs. R. G. Hazard,
Mrs. W. R. Hearst,
Charles Hecht,
John Heitman,
Jacob Hekma,
David Helier,
Henry Hellman,
Mrs. George A. Helme,
Hancke Hencken,
Charles Henderson,
Mrs. E. C, Henderson,
Harmon W. Hendricks,
Miss Margaret Hendrie,
Hon. Joseph P. Hennessy,
Philip W. Henry

Mrs, A. Barton n Hepburn,
Mrs. Henry 8. Herman,

Andrew H. Hershey,
Samuel A. Herzog,
Arthur M. Hess,

Mrs. Cooper Hewitt,
Mrs. Henry B. Heylman,
Mrs. David M. Heyman,
Henry Hicks,

Mrs. James J. Higginson,
Frederick Trevor Hill,
George Washington Hill,
Mrs. James Norman Hill,
Mrs. Robert Hill,

Miss Anne Hinchman,

(243)

Harold K. Hochschild,

Anton G. Hodenpyl,

Mrs. Frederick C. Hodgdon,

Miss Eleanor Hodges,

Mrs. Joseph M. Hodson,

Mrs. Richard March Hoe,

Mrs. Robert Hoe,

Miss Mary U. Hoffman,

Mrs. Edward Holbrook,

John Swift Holbrook,

Mrs. L. Dean Holden,

George C. Holt,

Charles W. Holton,

A. Holzman,

Elkan Holzman,

Mrs. Elon Huntington Hooker,

Charles H. Hoole,

Mrs. George B. Hopkins,

Ernest Hopkinson,

Frederick 8. Hoppin,

Horace Mann Elementary
School,

Nathan C. House,

C. J. Housman,

Thomas H. Howard,

Miss Lucy Howe,

Richard F. Howe,

M. D. Howell,

Mrs. Henry E. Howland,

John Sherman Hoyt,

Miss V. S. Hoyt,

Lewis McB. Hubbard,

Jeremiah Hunter,

Henry E. Huntington,
Mrs. R. P. Huntington,
Miss Margaret C. Hurlbut,

H. D. Hutchins,

R. G. Hutchins,

Mrs. Edward F. Hutton,
Frank DeK. Huyler,

A. F. Hyde,

Mrs. Clarence M. Hyde,
Courtney Hyde,

Henry St. John Hyde,
A. G. Imhof,

Mrs. F. N. Inglehart,
Edwin W. inslee,
Stanley M. Isaacs,
Adrian Iselin, Jr.,
Arthur Iselin,

C. Oliver Iselin,

Miss Georgine Iselin,
Mrs. John H. Iselin,
Lewis Iselin,

William E. Iselin,

Mrs. William E. Iselin,
Miss Flora E. Isham,
William B. Isham,

A. C. Israel,

Dr. Leopold Jaches,
Frederick W. Jackson,
Samuel K. Jacobs,

John S. Jacobus,

A. C. James,

Mrs. Arthur Curtis James,
Mrs. Henry James,
Mrs. Philip James,

Mrs. Wortham James,
E. C. Jameson,

Miss Martha A. Jamison,
Mrs. Alfred Jaretski,
Mrs. Samuel M. Jarvis,
Alfred W. Jenkins,
William B. Jenkins,
Mrs. William P. Jenks,

(244)

O. G. Jennings,
Walter Jennings,
George 8. Jephson,
Mrs. Bradish Johnson,
Gilbert H. Johnson,

J. Herbert Johnston,
Francis C. Jones,
Rodney Wilcox Jones,
Mrs. Townsend Jones,
Louis M. Josephthal,

Mrs. Delancey Kane,

Frank E. Karelsen, Jr.,

Miss Alice Kauser,

Mrs. Charles Kaye,

Mrs. H. F. Kean,

Mrs. Frank Browne Keech,

Henry F. Keil,

William W. Kelchner,

Nicholas Kelley,

Mrs. Charles W. Kellogg,

Mrs. F. R. Kellogg,

Dr. Howard A. Kelly,

Mrs. H. Van Rensselaer
Kennedy,

Mrs. John 8. Kennedy,

Mrs. Sinclair Kennedy,

Miss Martha M. Kennerly,

David Keppel,

John B. Kerr,

J. Keur,

Emil L. Kieger,

S. E. Kilner,

Van Evrie Kilpatrick,

Abel King,

Mrs. D. P. Kingsford,

Darwin P. Kingsley,

Morris Kinney,

Warren Kinney,

W. Ruloff Kip,

Dr. William B. Kirkham,
Mrs. Gustav E. Kissel,
D. Emil Klein,

Julius Klugman,

Dr. ape fe

W. J.

Mrs. ee a. Knoblauch,
Roland F. Knoedler,
Mrs. 8. H. Kohn,
Alexander Konta,

Dr. Samuel J. Kopetsky,

Mrs. Claude Kress,
Samuel H. Kress,
Richard G. Krueger,
George L. Kumpf,

Mrs. Henry R. Kunhardt,

Arthur F. Lafrentz,

Mrs. James L. Laidlaw,
Rev. Walter Laidlaw,

Mrs. Samuel W. Lambert,
Mrs. J. H. Lancashire,

Dr. Samuel H. Lanchner,
Frank Landi,

Francis G. Landon,

Mrs. Carl Lang,

Mrs. Woodbury G. Langdon,
Mrs. Valeria Langeloth,
Mrs. John J. Lapham,

(245)

Lewis H. Lapham,

John Burling Lawrence,

Henry Goddard Leach,

Mrs. George Leary,

Charles W. Leavitt,

Lederle Antitoxin
Laboratories,

Prof. Frederic 8. Lee,

Dr. Marguerite T. Lee,

R. C. Leffingwell,

George Legg,

James M. Lehmaier,

S. M. Lehman,

Miss Maud Aguilar Leland,

Mrs. John C. Leslie,

Dr. L. M. Lesser,

George Levi,

B. E. Levy

Louis Samter Levy,

Mrs. Louis 8. Levy,

Willy Levy,

C. Lewis,

Adolph Lewisohn,

Mrs. Allan Lexow,

Dr. Charles C. Lieb,

E. K. Lincoln,

Mrs. Frederick W. Lincoln,

Mrs. Erasmus Lindley,

Henry D. Lindsley,

Arthur H. Lippincott,

Frederick J. Lisman,

Miss Alma L. Lissberger,

Lucius N. Littauer,

Frank L. Liveright,

Miss Anna P. Livingston,

Henry 8. Livingston,

Mrs. Francis G. Lloyd,

Wilton Lloyd-Smith,

Mrs. William C. Lobenstein,

Mrs. Frederick R. Lockwood,
Mrs. Luke Vincent Lockwood,

Mrs. William A. Lockwood,
Miss Emilie O. Long,
Homer L. Loomis,

Lord & Burnham Co.,

P. Lorillard, Jr.,

Mrs. A. A. Low,
Ethelbert I. Low,

Mrs. Seth Low,

Mrs. Clarence M. Lowes,
Albert E. Lownes,

C. G. Lueder,

KE. L. Lueder

J. M. Pichas cen Lyeth,
John C. Lyeth,

Miss Grace G. Lyman,
Mrs. Jobn H. Lynch,
Milton A. Maas,

James B. Mabon,

John F. MacEnulty,
Clarence H. Mackay,
Kenneth K. Mackenzie,
Mrs. Charles F. MacLean,
V. Everit Macy,

F. Robert Mager,

Mrs. J. H. Maghee,

Miss Helaine Magnus,
Leon A. Malkiel,

Edward Mallinckrodt, Jr.,
Mrs. Robert Mallory, Jr.,
L. William Malone,

Dr. Morris Manges,

J. G. C. Mantle,

Mrs. H. Edward Manville,
Miss Delia W. Marble,
John Markle,

Mrs. John Markle,

Mrs. Francis H. Markoe,

(246)

Alfred E. Marling,
Otto Maron,

Mrs. Allan Marquand,
Mrs. Henry Marquand,

Walter R. Marvin,
Charles N. Mason,
William J. Matheson,
H. W. Maxwell,
George O. May,
Bernhard Mayer,
Harry Mayer,
Mrs. R. de L. Mayer,
Dr. D. H. McAlpin,
George McAneny,
Dr. George C. McBride,
W. Peck McCaffray,
George V. A. McCloskey,
Prof. Nelson G. McCrea,
Henry Forbes McCreery,
Mrs. Alfred McEwen,
Mrs. John R. McGinley,
Mrs. Robert T. MeGusty,
Edward A. McIhenny,
Tompkins McIlvaine,
Mrs. Charles W. McKelvey,
Henry P. McKenney,
ay A. McKim,

. A. McLaren,
Ae James McLean,
Edward F. McManus,
Francis W. McMillan,
William MeNair,
B. Frank Mebane,
H. E. Meeker,
Mrs. T. M. R. Meikelham,
Morton H. Meinhard,
Mrs. 8. Stanwood Mencken,

Mrs. William R. Mercer,
Miss Ella J. Merrifield,
John L. Merrill,

J. J. Merritt,

Herman A. Metz,

David Metzger,

Arthur S. Meyer,
Charles G. Meyer,
Eugene Meyer, Jr.,
Fredrik Fischer Meyer,
Mrs. Albert G. Milbank,
Jeremiah Milbank,

John G. Milburn,

Harry I. Miller,

W. W. Miller,

Miss Mary G. Millett,
Mrs. Regina V. G. Millhiser,
M. F. Millikan,

Mrs. Gerrish Milliken,
Dr. Adelaide Mills,
Henry E. Mills,

Grafton W. Minot,
Alexander 8. Mitchell,
Mrs. Clarence B. Mitchell,
Mrs. John Murray Mitchell,
R. Milton Mitchill, Jr.,
Walter Mitschke,

Mrs. John H. Mcohlman,
George A. Molleson,
John Monks,

H. de la Montagne, IJr.,
Carleton Montgomery,
Mrs. H. E. Montgomery,
Robert H. Montgomery,
Barrington Moore,
Benjamin Moore,
Clement Moore,

J. C. Moore,

Miss Katherine T. Moore,

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Mrs. Kenneth W. Moore,

Mrs. Paul Moore,

Vietor Morawetz,

B. Mordecai,

Miss Anne Morgan,

Miss C. L. Morgan,

E. D. Morgan,

Wm. Fellowes Morgan,

Mrs. Henry Morgenthau,

J. C. Morgenthau,

Mrs. Dave Hennen Morris,

Dr. Robert T. Morris,

Mrs. Charles King Morrison,

Dwight W. Morrow,

Mrs. George T. Mortimer,

Mrs. John B. Mott,

Frank J. Muhlfeld,

Edwin H. Mulford,

Carl Muller,

John P. Munn,

Frank J. Murphy,

G. M. P. Murphy,

Mrs. John F. Murray,

Fred A. Muschenheim,

George A. Mussmann,

Mme. Elie Nadelman,

Harold Nathan,

National Association, Boards
of Pharmacy,

Mrs. Elsie M. B. Naumberg,

A. G. Nesbitt,

Mrs. Russell H. Nevins,

Miss Edith Newbold,

Frederic R. Newbold,

Miss Elizabeth T. Nicholas,

George D. Nicholas,

Mrs. Acosta Nichols,

Wilham B. Nichols,

Mrs. William G. Nichols,

William H. Nichols,
Mrs. Hoffman Nickerson,
Mrs. Benjamin Nicoll,
William Nilsson,

Dr. Charles Norris,
Miss Fanny Norris,

Morgan J. O’Brien,

Mrs. Adolph Obrig,
Adolph S. Ochs,

John Offerman,

Mrs. Clinton Ogilvie,

Mrs. Ponsonby Ogle,

P. M. Ohmeis,

Miss Catherine Okie,

E. E. Olcott,

Miss Mary Olcott,

Elam Ward Olney,

Robert Olyphant,

John B. O’Reilly,

William C. Orr,

Mrs. Charles E. Orvis,
Prof. Henry F. Osborn,
Hiram Osborn,

Mrs. William Church Osborn,
Mrs. George L. Otis,
Charles K. Ovington,

Miss Elizabeth H. Packard,
Mrs. Eugene H. Paddock,
Mrs. Jean Aitken Paddock,
A. E. Merriman Paff,

Mrs. Augustus G. Paine,
Ignaz Panzer,

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Junius Parker,

Mrs. Willard Parker, Jr.,
Winthrop Parker,
Charles W. Parsons,
Mrs. Edgerton Parsons,
Miss Gertrude Parsons,
Mrs. Joseph Parsons,
Mrs. J. Graham Parsons,

Miss Katherine de B. Parsons,

Miss Mary Parsons,
Schuyler L. Parsons,
W. U. Parsons,
Rufus L. Patterson,
T. H. Hoge Patterson,
James G. Patton,
Mrs. Foster Paul,

J. R.

Mrs. Horace E. Payson,
Mrs. Charles A. Peacock,
E. Pennington Pearson,
Mrs. Frederick Pearson,
Charles E. Peck,

Dr. Charles H. Peck,
William Halsey Peck,
Mrs. Wheeler H. Peckham,
Dr. James Pedersen,
Mrs. Sarah G. T. Pell,

B. Henry Pelzer,

Miss Isabelle Pendleton,

J. C. Penney Foundation,
Mrs. Paul Geddes Pennoyer,
Comtesse de Périgny,
George W. Perkins,

Miss Hattie W. Perkins,
Mrs. F. A. C. Perrine,
Mrs. Charles G. Peters,
W. R. Peters,

Walter Peterson,

Carl Schurz Petrasch,

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Mrs. William C. Peyton,
Arthur Pforzheimer,
Carl H. Pforzheimer,
Walter Pforzheimer,
Mason M. Phelps,
Mrs. Sheffield Phelps,
Henry Phipps,
Lloyd Phoenix,
W. Paul Pickhardt,
Henry Clay Pierce,
Winslow 8. Pierce,
Mrs. R. Stuyvesant Pierrepont,
J. Fred Pierson,
John T. Pirie,
Mrs. J. O. H. Pitney,
Mrs. Charles Howard Platt,
Mrs. Frank H. Platt,
John Platt,
Edward Plaut,
Alfred F. Poggenburg,
sare ae Pokorny,

R. A. Polhemus,
Frank L. Polk,
Miss Florence L. Pond,
Charles Lane Poor,
Mrs. James Harper Poor,
James E. Pope
Mrs. William C. Popper,
Alexander J. Porter,
Mrs. Frank B. Porter, Jr.,
H. Hobart Porter,
Abram 8. Post,
Miss Blanche Potter,
Mrs. Frank H. Potter,
Dr. Lillian Delger Powers,
John H. Powrie,
Rev. Dr. William Prall,
Mrs. C. H. Pratt,
Mrs. Herbert Lee Pratt,

John Pratt,

Mrs. John T. Prait,
Mrs. Frank Presbrey,
Edgar 8. Pretzfeld,
Mrs. E. F. Price,

Julius Prince,

H. B. Prindle,

R. L. Pritchard,

Mrs. Herman A. Prosser,
Elias W. Pulaski,

Mrs. Kate Davis Palin
Miss Eva C. Putney,
Robert Pyle,

Perey R. Pyne,

Charles F'. Quincy,

L. M. Rabinowitz,
Samuel Raisler,

S. E. Ramsdell,

Stanley Ranger,
William T. Rasmus,
Eugene A. Rau,

G. B. Raymond,

H. E. Raymond,

Mrs. Henry R. Rea,
Newbury Frost Read,
Mrs. William A. Read,
Robert C. Ream,

Mrs. Louis J. Reckford,
Miss Emily Redmond,
Henry H. Reed,

Mrs. Augusta Bliss Reese,
Mrs. Whitelaw Reid,
Franklin Remington,

Samuel W. Reyburn,
Mrs. E. S. Reynal,

Mrs. H. Newell Reynolds,
Mrs. H. S. Reynolds,

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THomas A. Reynolds,
Miss N. Rhoades,

Miss Elvine Richard,
Oscar L. Richard,

Miss Edith G. Richards,
Ellis G. Richards,

EH. O. Richards,

Mrs. Robert Ridgway,
Mrs. Albert S. Ridley,
Dr. Abraham Rieger,
Mrs. Samuel Riker, Jr.,
Dr. A. I. Ringer,

F. Bayard Rives,

G. Barclay Rives,

Dr. William C. Rives,
Miss Emeline Roach,
Mrs. Charles H. Roberts,
Irving Bruce Roberts,
Frederick Young Robertson,
Louis J. Robertson,

A. G. Robinson,

Mrs. Douglas Robinson,
Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.,
Perey A. Rockefeller,
Nash Rockwood,

F, L. Rodewald,

Edward H. Roehrs,

John Roger,

Hubert E. Rogers,

Mrs. James Gamble Rogers,
A. J. Rolle,

Nicholas Roosevelt,

W. Emlen Roosevelt,
Mrs. W. Emlen Roosevelt,
Elihu Root,

Miss Rosalie Rosenberg,
Mrs. Henry C. Ross,

Miss Sara Rossmoore,
Peter W. Rouss,

John M. Royall,

C. H. Ruddock,

William Edwin Rudge,
J. Louis A. Ruhl,

Justus Ruperti,

Jacob Ruppert,

Miss M. L. Russell,

John Barry Ryan,
William J. Ryan,

Arthur Ryle,

Miss Julia Ryle,

Harry Sachs,

Samuel Sachs,

Reuben Sadowsky,

Mrs. T. Shaw Safe,

Mrs. Henry W. Sage,
Mrs. Walter J. Salmon,
Charles E. Sampson,
Mrs. Ralph Samuel,
Mitchell Samuels,

H. Sanhagen,

Mrs. Frederick A. Sansome,
F. A. Sarg,

Miss Georgiana W. Sargent,
Herbert L. Satterlee,
Mrs. Herbert L. Satterlee,
Mrs. Thomas E. Satterthwaite,
Mrs. Theodore Sattler,
Goddard Weld Saunders,
William M. Savin,

Oliver H. Sawyer,

Miss Corrie Sayles,
Hermann Schaaf,
Frederick Miiller Schall,
Jacob Schapiro,

John Scheepers,

Anton Schefer,

O. Boto Schellberg,

Miss Florence L. Schepp,

Dr. William J. Schieffelin,
Charles A. Schieren,
Gustave H. Schiff,

Max Schling, Inc.,

Miss Jane E. Schmelzel,
Emil Schmitz,

D. Schnakenberg,
Berthold Schnee,

Harry Schneider,
Henrich Schniewind, Jr.,
Carl Schoen,

W. D. Scholle,

William Schongalla,
Mrs. Anthony Schulte,
Richard Schuster,

Mrs. C. Albert Schwab,
C. M. Schwab,

Miss Emily Schwab,

M. Charles Schweinert,
Miss Marion Scofield,
Mrs. Frank Hall Scott,
Walter Scott,

Miss Grace Scoville,
Herbert Scoville,

Robert Scoville,

Mrs. Arthur H. Scribner,
Edward M. Seudder,
Hewlett Scudder,

Mrs. Joseph H. Seaman,
Alonzo B. See,

Edwin Sefton,

Prof. Edwin R. A. Seligman,
Mrs. Isaac N. Seligman,
Jefferson Seligman,

Mrs. Norrie Sellar,

Mrs. George H. Semken,
Mrs. Charles H. Senff,
Frederick W. Senff,
Alfred Seton,

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Frank G. Shattuck,

Mrs. Quincy A. Shaw,
Mrs. William F. Sheehan,
Finley J. Shepard,
David Shiman,

Mrs. Arthur L. Shipman,
George W. Short,

Frank R. Shull,

Hiram W. Sibley,

Mrs. Reinhard Siedenburg,
Benjamin Siegel,

Mrs. J. Siegel,

Samuel M. Siegman,
Simon Siegman,
Benjamin F. Simmons,
Charles H. Simmons,
Alfred L. Simon,
Franklin Simon,

Robert E. Simon,

Mrs. Roswell Skeel, Jr.,
Francis Louis Slade,
Ralph E. Slaven,

Benson B. Sloan,

Samuel Sloan,

Thomas W. Slocum,
Thomas Smidt,

Daniel Smiley,

C. Harold Smith,

Mrs. Charles Herbert Smith,
Charles R. Smith,

Mrs. Charles Stewart Smith,
E. C. Smith,

Miss Fanny A. Smith,
James B. Smith,

J. Milton Smith,

Mrs. Milton Smith, Jr.,
Dr. Nelson Smith,

Pierre J. Smith,

Mrs. R. Penn Smith, Jr.,

Mrs. John W. Smyth,
Frederick Snare,
Frederick A. Soldwedel,
Phineas Sondheim,

Mrs, William M. Spackman,
Mrs. H. B. Spalding,

Mrs. Edward W. Sparrow,
Mrs. Joseph McK. Speer,
Mrs. Gino C. Speranza,
Edgar Speyer,

Mrs. B. G. Spiegelberg,
Mrs. William F. Stafford,
A. T. Stanley,

Howard W. Starr,

E. Vail Stebbins,

Mrs. J. Rich Steers,

Mrs. Mary P. Eno Steffanson,

Louis Steinam,

William H. Steinkamp,
Fred T. Steinway,
William R. Steinway,
Olin J. Stephens,
Roderick Stephens,
Benjamin Stern,

Sereno Stetson,

Mrs. Edward R. Stettinius,
Mrs. Byam K. Stevens,
Frederic W. Stevens,
Mrs. Weld M. Stevens,
Lispenard Stewart,
Mrs. George J. Stier,
Miss Bessie Stillman,

C. C. Stillman,

Ralph George Stoddard,
Alfred W. Stone,

Galen L. Stone,

Mrs. Charles H. Stout,
Mrs. Franklin D. L. Stowe,
H. Grant Straus,

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Mrs. Nathan Stravs, Jr.,
Roger W. Straus,

Albert Strauss,

Mrs. Daisy Strauss,
Frederick Strauss,

Miss Henrietta Strauss,
Martin Strauss,

Samuel Strauss,

William H. Strawn,

Miss Florence E. Strickland,
Dr. George T. Strodl,
Mrs. Gustaf Stromberg,
Benjamin Strong,

Richard A. Strong,
Mrs. Theron G. Strong,
Joseph Stroock,

Mrs. Pauline 8. Stroock,
Duncan Struthers,
Francis Lee Stuart,
Frank K. Sturgis,
Henry 8. Sturgis,

Mrs. James Sullivan,
Frank M. Swacker,
Mrs. Edward H. Swan,
Harry Swan,

Mrs. J. Andrews Swan,
Dr. F. J. Swanson,
Maurice Switzer,

Miss Mary Taber,
Henry W. Taft,

Edwin Tatham,
Charles G. Taylor,
Frederick C. Taylor,
Moses Taylor,

W. A. Taylor,

Miss Gertrude M. Telke,
S. Frederick Telleen,

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H. L. Terrell,

Mrs. John T. Terry,
Mrs. Thomas Thacher,
Mrs. T. D. Thacher,

Mrs. Bayard Thayer,

H. B. Thayer,

E, Thiele,

Mrs. H. M. Thomas,

Mrs. Hector W. Thomas,
Mrs. Howard L. Thomas,
Percival Thomas,

L. 8. Thompson,

Mrs. R. H. Thompson,
William B. Thompson,
Dr. W. Gilman Thompson,

Mrs. William Reed Thompson,

John C. Thorn,

Mrs. Edwin Thorne,
Samuel Thorne,
Sherman Thursby,
Louis C. Tiffany,

Mrs. Henry M. Tilford,
Dr. Walter Timme,

R. H. Timmermann,
James Timpson,

Mrs. Edward R. Tinker,
Alexander Tison, Jr.,
Mrs. Norman E. Titus,
Mrs. Margaret T. Tjader,
Edward R. Tolfree,

W. C. Trageser,

Mrs. John B. Trevor,
John Trounstine,

KE. Kellogg Trowbridge,
Carll Tucker,

Paul Tuckerman,
George E. Turnure,
Harry F. Turtle,

Mrs. Mary A. Tuitle,

Mrs. Charles H. Tweed,
Mrs. Alice B. Tweedy,
Mrs. Lucien H. Tyng,
Mrs. Walter M. Underhill,
Miss Martha C. Vail,
Mrs. Henry C. Valentine,
Augustus Van Cortlandt,
William H. Vanderbilt,
Francis 8. van der Veer,
Barend van Gerbig,
Miss Anne H. Van Ingen,
Miss Louise Van Ingen,
Dr. Philip Van Ingen,
John Vanneck,
Mrs. Warner M. Van Norden,
Mrs. E. van Raalte,
Mrs. Louisa Van Wezel,
Irving Van Zandt,
Mrs. Wilbur Linwood Varian,
Mrs. James M. Varnum,
Mrs. A. C. Veatch,
Mrs. John A. Vietor,
Thomas F. Vietor,
Alfonso P. Villa,
Ludwig Vogelstein,
Mrs. Owen M. Voight,
Dr. Antonie P. Voislawsky,
Mrs. Anna M. von Zedlitz,
Frederick K. Vreeland,
Montgomery Waddell,

Mrs. W. Austin Woaswork:
Dr. A. F. Wahl,
Mrs. J. Howard Wainwright,
Justus I. Wakelee,
Mrs. Joseph Walker, Jr.,
Miss Miriam Dwight Walker,
Arthur T. Walker,
Robert 8. Walker,
Stuart Walker,

Mrs. W. K. Wallbridge,
Alfred Wallerstein,

Leo Wallerstein,

Dr. Max Wallerstein,
Mrs. Frederick A. Wallis,
William I. Walter,

Dr. Francis R. Ward,

Dr. Freeman Ford Ward,
Mrs. John I. Waterbury,
C. W. Watson,

Harry Wearne,

Mrs. E. H. Weatherbee,
Mrs. V. Webb,

Mrs. W. Seward Webb,
Jules Weber,

Mrs. Orlando F. Weber,

Mrs. Hamilton Fisher Webster

Mrs. Alden H. Weed,
Miss Alice D. Weekes,
Dr. Eugene Wehmeyer,
George A. Weigel,

Mrs. Walter L. Weil,
Mrs. Charles Weiss,

S. J. Weiss,

Mrs. Samuel W. Weiss,

William Y. Wemple,

Mrs. Ten Eyck Wendell,
Sanders A. Wertheim,
Miss Edith Wetmore,

Mrs. Frederick S. Wheeler,
Mrs. George C. Wheeler,
Mrs. William E. Wheelock,
Miss Amelia E. White,
Miss Caroline White,

Mrs. E. Lawrence White,
Harold T. White,

Mrs. William T. White,

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Miss Lucile Whitehurst,
Mrs. W. L. Whitfield,
Clarence Whitman,

Mrs. Arnold Whitridge,
Miss Joan Whitridge,
Howard Whittemore,

H. Wickenhauser,

F. B. Wiborg,

Mrs. D. O. Wickham,
Walter R. Wilder,
Ernest J. Wile,

Dr. Ira 8. Wile,

Miss Alice Wilson Wilcox,
C. Robert Wilhelm,
Elmore A. Willets,

J. Macy Willets,

Mrs. Charles B. Williams,
Mrs. Perey H. Williams,
Richard H. Williams,
William H. Williams,
Mrs. G. De Witt Williamson,
W. P. Willis,

James - Williston,
Mrs. L. K. Wilmerding,
Ars. Genes H. Wilson,
Dr. Margaret B. Wilson,
M. Orme Wilson,

Orme Wilson, Jr.,
Charles A. Wimpfheimer,
Jesse Winburn,

Bronson Winthrop,
Grenville L. Winthrop,
John C, Wister,

Mrs. Frank 8. Witherbee,
Joseph Wittman,

Dr. William H. Woglom,
Lewis 8. Wolff,

M. Wolff,

Mrs. T. Wolfson,

Ernest Wolwitz,

Miss Martha E. Woodbury,
Mrs. William H. Woodin,
Chauncey C. Woodworth,
George C. Woolf,

Park M. Woolley,

Mrs. I. Maurice Wormser,
Martin Wortmann,

Miss Julia Wray,
Richardson Wright,
Gustave A. Wuefel,

Dr. Peter B. Wyckoff,

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Mrs. Irene 8S. Wyle,

Mrs. Cornelius ge Zabriskie,
George A. Zabriskie,

Charles H. Zehnder,

Albert G. Zimmerman,
August Zinsser,

Charles Zoller,

Mrs. Oscar F. Zollikoffer,
Christian F. Zoylner,

Henry Zuckerman.

MEMBERS OF THE ADVISORY CoUNCIL

Mrs. Robert Bacon,

Miss Elizabeth Billings,
Mrs. Edward C. Bodman,
Mrs. N. L. Britton,

Mrs. Andrew Carnegie,

Mrs. Frederick A. Constable,

Mrs. Charles D. Dickey,
Mrs. John W. Draper,

Mrs. Carl A. de Gersdorff,
Miss Elizabeth S. Hamilton,
Mrs. A. Barton Hepburn,
Mrs. Robert C. Hill,

Mrs. Frederick C. Hodgdon,
Mrs. Walter Jennings,

Mrs. Bradish Johnson,

Mrs. Delancey Kane,

Mrs. Gustav E. ae

Mrs. Frederic 8S. L

Mrs. William A. ae
Mrs. A. A. Low,

Mrs. David Ives Mackie,
Mrs. Pierre Mali,
Mrs. Henry Marquand,
Mrs. John R. McGinley,
Mrs. Roswell Miller,
Mrs. Wheeler H. Peckham,
rs. George W. Perkins,
Mrs. Harold I. Pratt,
rs. Wm. Kelly Prentice,
Mrs. James Roosevelt,
rs. Arthur H. Scribner,
Mrs. Samuel Sloan,
Mrs. Charles H. Stout,
Mrs. Theron G. Strong,
Mrs. Henry O. Taylor,
rs. John T. Terry,
Mrs. Harold M. Turner,
rs. Louise Beebe Wilder,
Mrs. William H. Woodin.

Honorary MeEmMBers oF THE ADVISORY COoUNCHL

Mrs. E. Henry Harriman,

Miss Olivia E. P. Stokes.

VOL. 138 No. 49

BULLETIN

OF

THE NEW YORK

BOTANICAL GARDEN

ISSUED MAY 31, 1928

CONTENTS

REPORTS FOR THE YEAR 1927

Report of the Secretary and Director-in-Chief.......... 257
Report of the Head Curator of the Museums and

Herbarium 22.) oes 2 eee bneed nies MEE Be Ae 261
Report of the Head Gardener.....................-4... 266
Report of the Honorary Curator of the Iris and Narcissus

Collections 0.02... eee 273
Report of the Director of Laboratories.................. 278
Report of the Bibliographer ..................--.-.-.. 282
Report of the Librarian .........................2.4.. 284

Report of the Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds.. 304

Report of the Paleobotanist .......................005. 309
Report of the Honorary Curator of the Economie

Collections ......0.0..0.0 0.000 ee 312
Report of the Honorary Curator of Mosses.............. 313

Report of the Honorary Custodian of the Local Herbarium 315
Report of the Chairman of the Board of Scientific

Directors: <.¢25 .ihaeack heed ee bs Se eS 316
Report of the Treasurer ................0...0200 00045. 318
Certificate of Auditors.........00.00..0.0.0.0.00.0..00005. 319

Report of the Committee on Patrons, Fellows, and Members 324

BULLETIN

OF

The New York Botanical Garden

Vol 13 No. 49

REPORT OF THE SECRETARY AND DIRECTOR-IN-
CHIEF FOR THE YEAR 1927
(Accepted and ordered printed, January 9, 1928)

To THE BOARD OF MANAGERS OF THE NEW YORK BOTANICAL
GARDEN.

Gentlemen: The work of the institution has been accom-
plished in close codperation with the Department of Parks,
Borough of the Bronx. Construction and development dur-
ing the year have included the completion of the boundary
wall and fence along Pelham Avenue and the Southern
Boulevard, through the expenditure of contributions made
by members to the Special Fund for Improvement of the
Grounds; this is a very important addition to protection.
The beautiful entrance piers erected at the junction of
these streets through the generosity of Mr. Frank K.
Sturgis are a noteworthy feature as a part of this enclosure.
To prevent intrusion, the nursery and experimental grounds
on the eastern side of the Garden have been enclosed by a
woven-wire fence with a low concrete base, as recommended
in my last annual report, and additional low railings have
been erected along paths near two of the entrances. The
electric lighting of the museum building, commenced in the
spring under a city contract, has not yet been completed.
Additional paths aggregating about 1,500 feet in length
have been built near Conservatory Ranges Nos. 1 and 2,
near the New York Central Railroad Station, and near the
Linnaean Bridge Entrance. Continuation of the work on
the path-system is very desirable, looking forward to its
completion as soon as possible.

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Work has been continued in filling and grading the valley
in the southeastern part of the reservation, planned for a
Rhododendron Glade, but the sewer connection needed for
its drainage has not yet been built.

An appropriation of $15,000 by the city has been re-
quested for the reconstruction of the area adjacent to land
of Fordham University, made necessary by grading opera-
tions by the University mentioned in my last annual report;
the need for this became more urgent during the summer,
when the old drainage of this area, through the University
grounds, became clogged, and the area flooded, requiring
the closing of a much-used path.

A third model garden was laid out and partly completed,
its plan having been chosen from competition with many
others under the provisions of the H. H. Memorial Fund.
Another similar competition is now in progress for a fourth
model garden for construction and planting in 1928

Police protection has been somewhat increased, and we
have employed a few more keepers than in previous years,
but guarding is still inadequate. If the city should return to
its former Park Police system, under the immediate control
of the Park Commissioners, a great improvement in condi-
tions would, doubtless, ensue. All care possible has been
taken of the natural features of the reservation to forestall
damage by trampling or by fire.

Repairs to buildings included the reglazing of three green-
houses of Conservatory Range No. 1. Three others require
reglazing during 1928. The chimney of Power House No. 1
was increased in height about forty feet, in pleasing design,
in order to obtain better draft and more perfect coal com-
bustion. Torrential rainfalls in summer and autumn made
necessary extensive repairs to paths and banks. Much
painting was required on fences, railings, and buildings.

Through some increase in the number of gardeners and
laborers, improvement of maintenance of grounds and plan-
tations has been effected, but the force is still insufficient
to accomplish all that is desirable. The several plantations
have been modified mainly by additions and substitutions.

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Extensive floral displays have been continued in daffodils,
irises, tulips, roses, cherries, lilacs, gladiolus, dahlias, rhodo-
dendrons, water-lilies, and chrysanthemums, and minor dis-
plays in a large number of other kinds of plants, both her-
baceous and woody. The total number of species and varie-
ties in the grounds and greenhouses is more than 17,000.

The museum and herbarium collections have been in-
ereased by the addition of many desirable specimens and
their value heightened by studies of members of the staff
and visiting botanists, effecting more detailed and accurate
classification. These additions have been made in part by
purchase, in part by exchanges of duplicates with other
institutions, in part by gift, and in part through botanical
exploration and collecting in the southern and central
United States, the West Indies, and northern South
America.

Much progress was made in cataloging and binding books,
and the whole library was moved to obtain space for expan-
sion provided by the new steel stacks obtained late in 1926.
Noteworthy accessions were made during the year, bring-
ing the number of bound volumes up to nearly 37,000.

Direct instruction has been continued through public
lectures, demonstrations, docentry, and attention to some
advanced students. Labelling of plants and specimens for
the information of the public has also been continued; but
additional assistance for this work is needed: Extra-limital
instruction has been given by lectures to schools, garden
clubs, and other organizations. A great amount of informa-
tion has been given in reply to requests, by correspondence;
the demand for such information is continually increasing.

Investigations have been pursued by members of the
staff, students, and visitors over a wide range of subjects,
including the floras of North America, the West Indies, and
northern South America; the taxonomy of many plant
families and genera; economic botany; floriculture; plant
genetics; plant cytology and palaeobotany.

The serial publications of the Garden have been con-
tinued; their expansion is very desirable and assistance is

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needed in editing them, in order to relieve members of the
staff. They are continually obtaining wider circulation, and
this distribution of information is important.

In order to take advantage of the possibilities for floral
display, teaching, and investigation already provided by
nearly four hundred acres of land, and the very extensive
and valuable collections of plants, books and specimens
which have been brought together, much greater endow-
ment of the institution is required

Details of operations will be found in reports by mem-
bers of the staff hereto appended.

N. L. BRITTON,
Secretary and Director-in-Chief.

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REPORT OF THE HEAD CURATOR OF THE
MUSEUMS AND HERBARIUM

Dr. N. L. BRITTON, DIRECTOR-IN-CHIEF.

Sir: I submit herewith my report as Head Curator of
the Museums and Herbarium of The New York Botanical
Garden for the year 1927:

The collections comprising the museums and herbaria
of the Garden were conserved and developed as in past
years.

Specimens were added to the collections as follows:

By gift and purchase.......... 10,848
By exchange .............0... 7,489
By exploration ............... 11,410

Total 4i..é4400242442 bs ak 29,747

About 5,000 specimens were sent to other institutions in
exchange for other specimens.

Specimens were received from nearly all parts of
America, from Canada to Argentina.

MUSEUMS

The several units comprising the public museums—the
fossil-plant museum, the economic museum, and the sys-
tematic museum with its synoptic collection, microscope
exhibit, plant-picture collection, and local-flora exhibit—
were increased by the addition of specimens or renovated.
It may be particularly mentioned that specimens were inter-
polated in the fossil-plant and economic collections; models
of fleshy fungi were installed in the fungus exhibit of the
synoptic collection.

The more important additions were derived through ex-
ploration in tropical America and adjacent regions, and by
exchanges.

Label copy for the specimens of the entire economic
museum was prepared and many labels were made and
placed in the cases. No new equipment was added.

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The development of the Economic Museum was under the
supervision of Dr. H. H. Rusby, Honorary Curator of the
Economie Collections. (For details see his report.)

The Fossil Plant Museum was under the supervision of
Dr. Arthur Hollick, Paleobotanist. (For details see his
report.)

HERBARIA

A substantial expansion of the general herbarium was
made possible by the addition of thirty-two standard cases
to the equipment. The past growth of the general her-
barium necessitated the removal of some groups of speci-
mens from the top floor of the museum building to the
eastern wing of the second floor. This step necessitated
the moving and rearranging of every pigeon-hole of speci-
mens of the entire collection. The ferns and some of the
monocotyledonous families were moved to the second floor.
The lichens and mosses were placed in the room on the top
floor formerly occupied by the ferns.

A total of 28,190 herbarium sheets, containing about
35,000 specimens were added to the permanent collections.
Most of the material mounted came from continental North
America, the West Indies: and northern South America.

Specimens, limited in number, received for the Columbia
University herbarium, were mounted and incorporated in
that collection.

Two collections of a special character were:

The moss herbarium which was under the supervi-
sion of Mrs. N. L. Britton, Honorary Curator of Mosses:
(For details see her report.)

II. The local flora herbarium which was under the
supervision of Dr. H. M. Denslow, Honorary Curator of the
Local Flora herbarium. (For details see his report.)

The more outstanding activities of members of the scien-
tific staff are referred to below.

INVESTIGATIONS AND ASSISTANCE

Dr. P. A. Rydberg, Curator, had charge of the collection
of flowering plants. During the first part of the year he

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devoted his time largely to the transfer and complete re-
arrangement of the general herbarium, with the assistance
of Messrs. Gleason and Wilson, and to the distribution of
about 5,000 duplicate specimens to other institutions as
exchanges. During the summer and fall the time available
for research work was divided principally between the con-
tinued studies of the flora of the prairie and plain region
between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains,
and to monographic work on the genus Astragalus and
related genera. The monographic work has advanced so
far that manuscript enough for two parts of the North
American Flora has been turned into the hands of the
editor, and a third part is ready, except the genus Oxytropis,
which is nearly completed. In connection with this work
he has published two papers in the Bulletin of the Torrey
Botanical Club; viz., Notes on Fabaceae, VIII & IX, cover-
ing the genus Hamosa; two more papers of the series are
in the hands of the editor. One part of North American
Flora, containing the composite tribes Liabeae, Neurole-
neae, and a part of Senecioneae, has been printed during
the year. One article, ‘‘New Species from the Blue Ridge,”
was printed in Torreya. Two illustrated lectures were
given during the summer at Lutherland, Pocono Summit,
Pennsylvania.

Dr. H. A. Gleason, Curator, in continuation of his work
of preceding years, devoted his time almost wholly to a
study of the flora of northern South America. This has
included the care of the collections received, among which
the largest is that of the expedition of Messrs. Killip and
Smith in Colombia, amounting to almost seven thousand
numbers; the identification of material, especially in the
Melastomataceae, Malpighiaceae, Sapindaceae, and Hyperi-
caceae; and the preparation of manuscript covering the
Melastomataceae for the proposed Flora of British Guiana.
The latter work was greatly aided by the loan from the
Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew of nearly six hundred sheets
of Guiana material. He published six articles, aggregating
228 pages, and several abstracts of current literature for

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“Biological Abstracts.” He has also aided from time to
time with the classes of high school pupils which visited
the Garden, and has delivered four of the public lectures.

Dr. Fred J. Seaver, Curator, continued to look after the
mycological collections. An attempt was made during the
year to mount up the large quantity of material which has
accumulated for several past seasons, and to arrange the
entire collection in consecutive order. Research work on
the Discomycetes for the whole of North America was con-
tinued; also on the Ascomycetes in general of the West
Indies. These latter studies are preliminary to what is
hoped to be a general treatment of the fungi of all of the
West Indies, the Porto Rican list being used as a nucleus
around which to build. Much time was also spent on the
study of miscellaneous collections of fungi sent in from
various localities for determination. Dr. Seaver continued
to edit Mycologia, the volume for the year comprising 338
pages, a considerable increase over previous volumes. He
took his turn on the public lecture courses and has published
a number of research papers. In the absence of a patholo-
gist, Dr. Seaver has continued to act in this capacity so far
as other duties would permit. Some time has been spent
looking after insect depredations in the Garden and gain-
ing information on the best methods of control.

Mr. Percy Wilson, Associate Curator, continued his
studies of West Indian plants. He has also studied the
families Batadaceae, Petiveriaceae, Tetragoniaceae, Basel-
laceae, and the genus Portulaca preparatory to a mono-
graph of these groups for North American Flora. Mr.
Wilson determined many specimens and collections of speci-
mens for other institutions. He continued his week-day
afternoon docentry and had charge of a large number of
classes from both public and private schools.

Mrs. William Mitchell, Associate Curator, completely re-
labelled the families of the general herbarium of flowering
plants, a task necessitated by the rearrangement of the col-
lection referred to above, with new case labels, renovated
the mounted material of the Scrophulariaceae and the Ru-

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biaceae to Carduaceae (partly inclusive), and made tables
to render the genera and species of certain families more
readily accessible. She helped in the sorting of mounted
specimens for distribution, in preparing miscellaneous
duplicate specimens for distribution as exchanges, and made
the entries of several special collections in the record books.
In the case of the local herbarium, mounted specimens were
distributed in the cases, and much progress was made in
sorting and labelling the specimens of the Bicknell herba-
rium, in which now over 8,500 sheets have been labelled.

The undersigned, in addition to curatorial routine, de-
voted his time to investigation and exploration, and to the
interpretation of the studies involved. His field work con-
sisted of two short periods of exploration in the Gulf
Region; one in April, covering the Gulf coast region from
Florida to Louisiana; the other in parts of November and
December, confined to Florida. These trips were made
principally for the collection of herbarium and museum
specimens, general and special information, collection of
living material (plants and seeds) for illustration in Addi-
sonia, and particularly live material of iris and spiderlilies
in continuation of our studies now in progress for several
years. He also prepared manuscripts of narratives of
exploration and special papers for publication, and printed
seventeen papers dealing with the plants of the southeast-
ern United States. Living material for study was intro-
duced into the reservation of Mrs. Arthur Curtiss James at
Coconut Grove, Florida, with her permission, and our
thanks are given to Mrs. James for arranging the motor
transportation for our fieldwork.

Respectfully submitted,

JOHN K. SMALL,
Head Curator of the Museums and Herbarium.

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REPORT OF THE HEAD GARDENER

Dr. N. L. BRITTON, DIRECTOR-IN-CHIEF.
HORTICULTURAL OPERATIONS

Sir: I have the honor to submit herewith my report as
Head Gardener for the year 1927.

The gardening staff, under the direction of Messrs.
John Finley and H. W. Becker, Foremen-Gardeners, con-
sisted of 80 gardeners and 16 laborers. The outside force,
under the direction of Mr. Finley, after finishing the winter
tree work, spent the major part of the season in flower
garden work. Chrysanthemum, Phlox, Rose, Iris, and Peony
collections and the conservatory beds, were cared for. The
1927 Prize Garden was begun. Two beds of Japanese iris
were replanted and two new iris beds, one peony bed and
two chrysanthemum beds were made. The tulip display beds
were prepared and planted with 73,450 bulbs, the conserva-
tory court with 26,750 of Early Singles, Cottages, Doubles,
and Mendels, the remaining 46,700 Darwins and Breeders
having been planted in the Horticultural Grounds; 424
tulips given by John Scheepers, Inc., were also planted in
the Conservatory Court.

Eight trees were planted along rcads and paths; 72 trees
were planted in the Pinetum; 66 trees were planted in the
Arboretum; 282 trees were planted in the Red Pine Forest;
288 shrubs were planted in the Fruticetum and 146 shrubs
in the Fruticetum Decorative; 84 trees and shrubs were
planted around the new entrance at Pelham Parkway and
Southern Boulevard; 74 shrubs were planted at the 200th
Street Entrance. There were 4 specimens planted in the
Dwarf Collection, and among the late-blooming shrubs 2
species and varieties. The laying out of the tulip and flower
collections was under the direction of Mr. John Hartling,
Head Gardener’s Assistant.

GREENHOUSE OPERATIONS

The greenhouse force, under the direction of Mr. Becker,
has maintained the indoor collection as usual. The plants

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in House No. 1, Range No. 1, consisting of palms, were
transplanted into larger tubs. One Phoenix was trans-
planted from a 42-inch tub into the ground and a rockery
built around it, as were one Coccothrinax argentea and one
Howea Forsteriana, two of the largest palms of their kind
under glass, ranging from 25 to 40 feet in height, with a
spread of 18 to 25 feet.

In House No. 4, one of the largest Ficus benghalensis,
43 feet in height, with a spread of 45 feet was pruned
back on account of growing out of the roof and one Ficus
elastica, 38 feet high, with a spread of 40 feet, was trans-
planted into a larger tub. In House No. 6, one Aloe arbore-
scens, one Carnegiea gigantea, one Beaucarnea recurvata,
and three Euphorbia abyssinica were transplanted into the
ground and rockeries built around them. In House No. 11,
all the large banana plants were transplanted into larger
tubs and the whole house rearranged so as to give the
plants more room. In House No. 13, one large Neowashing-
tonia robusta, 47 feet high, had to be cut down on account
of breaking through the glass at the top of the roof. Three
other Neowashingtonia robusta were moved to the middle
of the house. They are 25 to 40 feet in height. Agathis alba
was transplanted in the ground and a rockery built around
it; it was 54 feet high and had to be pruned back 10 feet.
All plants in Houses Nos. 12, 14, and 15 had to be trans-
ferred to Houses Nos. 1 and 13, on account of reglazing and
painting of these houses. As soon as alterations were com-
pleted, the plants were returned to the houses they belonged
in. General transplanting, potting, and pruning in all the
other houses were carried on during the year. The following
plants were raised for exhibition in the Central Display
House of Range No. 2: 120 Hippeastrums, 150 Primulas,
95 Begonias, 30 Impatiens, 130 Fuchsias, 300 Chrysanthe-
mums, 50 Pelargoniums, 87 Gloxinias, and 76 Hydrangeas,
making a total of 988 plants. The Chrysanthemums given
by Elmer D. Smith & Co. of Adrian, Michigan, in 1925 and
1926, were the feature exhibition. An increasing number
of seedlings were raised for the systematic collections, the

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rock garden, the flower gardens, and nurseries, as well as
plants for Dr. Small’s studies of native irises and for Dr.
Stout’s researches; also several thousand bedding plants.

SYSTEMATIC PLANTATIONS

Herbaceous Grounds. There have been 200 species of
plants added to the collections this year through seeds, gifts,
and collections, these being distributed over about 20 fami-
lies. With these additions, this collection now contains about
1,700 species, which, added to those of tnh2 Rock Garden,
Flower Gardens, and Nurseries, give the garden a collec-
tion of nearly 4,000 species of herbaceous plants.

Woody Collection. Seventy-four species and one genus
of hardy woody plants new to our coliections have been
raised from seed this year, increasing the plants in the
Nursery available for the collections.

Conservatories. About 25,344 plants are now in our
Greenhouse collection, including 9,186 in Range No. 1;
9,735 in Range No. 2; and 7,423 in the Propagating Houses
and cold frames. Eighty-two varieties of Water-lilies, 250
plants, were shown in the Conservatory Court.

MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS

Rose Garden. 1,500 hybrid tea and hybrid perpetual,
polyantha, and climbing roses for replacements, also 40 new
varieties, were added to the garden this year by Bobbink &
Atkins, of Rutherford, New Jersey.

Dahlia Garden. 425 varieties, represented by 1,000
plants, were grown in the Dahlia Border, under the direc-
tion of Dr. M. A. Howe.

Iris Garden. The Iris collection contains now about 1,156
varieties, 7,232 plants, including the alphabetical and nurs-
ery collections. 3,618 plants of American native Irises,
collected by Dr. Small and others, were added to this
collection.

Narcissus Collection. This collection contains 61,200
plants of 146 varieties in massed and naturalistic planting
the same as last year.

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Hyacinth Display. This display has been distributed into
the flower beds.

Gladiolus Collection. The Gladiolus collection now con-
tains about 2,587 bulbs in about 126 varieties.

Variegated Plant Collection. Sixty-eight varieties, 500
plants, were displayed in the variegated plant bed.

Hardy Chrysanthemum Collection. 90 varieties, 1,080
plants, were grown for this display.

Peony Collection. This collection now contains 240 varie-
ties, 503 plants. Seventy-six single peonies have been
planted in the new bed.

Phlox Collection. This collection contains 30 varieties,
3830 plants.

Lilac Garden. The Lilac collection consists of 560 plants
of 186 named varieties.

Canna Collection. 1,060 plants, 64 varieties.

Tulip Display. 73,450 in 167 varieties, were given by the
Dutch Bulb Exporters’ Association; 424 in 53 varieties were
given by John Scheepers, Inc.

Coleus Collection. This collection consisted of about 4,000
plants in 10 varieties and was planted along the West
Border.

Mallow Collection. This collection remains the same as
last year.

Rock Garden. 5,150 plants were added to the Rock Gar-
den in 1927 under the direction of Dr. E. B. Southwick.
Many of them were raised and received by exchange, but
the greater part was collected by Dr. Southwick. Mrs.
W. H. Peckham presented many bulbs, and quantities of
plants raised by Dr. Southwick from cuttings and seed
made the Rock Garden a great attraction to visitors.

Dwarf Collection. This collection contains 66 plants in
28 varieties.

LABELING, RECORDING, AND HERBARIUM

Under the direction of Mr. John Hartling, Head Gar-
dener’s Assistant, with one label boy for four and one-half
months, a total of 2,353 labels have been made and placed,

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including 69 for Fruticetum, 233 for the Arboretum, 14 for
the Pinetum, 15 for the Horticultural Grounds, 74 for Con-
servatory Range No. 1, 177 for Conservatory Range No. 2,
175 for Conservatory Beds, 8 for the Herbaceous Grounds,
336 for the Dahlia Border, 185 for the Rose Garden, 10 for
the Morphological Gardens, 124 for the Tulip display, 21
for the Dwarf Collection, 3 for the Coleus Collection, 109
for the Gladiolus Collection, 95 for the Narcissus Collection,
and 400 for Roads and Paths; 3,000 pot labels were cleaned
and painted. Accession numbers 57,910 to 59,144 have
been recorded, making a total of 1,234 accessions for the
year. 2,827 packets of seed were received, 200 of these
have been collected by this department on the grounds; 27
were received by gift, 1,991 by exchange, 600 by purchase,
9 by collection. 77,610 bulbs were received and 6,683 plants;
of the latter, 172 were by gift, 4,180 by collection, 785 by
exchange, 724 by purchase, and 822 from seed. Two hun-
dred fifty specimens were gathered from the garden collec-
tion and 1,000 have been poisoned and mounted by John
Borin, for the cultivated-plant herbarium.

This department has collected material for schools, for
nature study and college classes in botany, and exchanged
living plants with institutions and parks.

SUMMARY FROM ANNUAL REPORT

Accessions:
Plants received 6,683
Bulbs s 79,697

Seeds (packets) received 2,827, including 200 collected
by members of this Dept.

Displays:
Narcissus 61,200 146 varieties
Tulips 73,874 220 a
Tris 3,431 1,297 s
Peony 503 240 .
Rose 4,550 280 x
Dahlia 1,000 425 ee

Chrysanthemum 1,080 120 “

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Cannas

Lilac

Mallow

Variegated Plants
Dwarf Plantation
Fall-flowering Shrubs
Gladiolus

Iris for Nursery
Rock Gardens

Planting Additions:

Gladiolus

Tulips

Crocus

Dwarf Plantation
Lilies

Arboretum
Fruticetum
Pelham Ave.
Pinetum

Pine Forest
Fruticetum Decorative
Rose Garden

Rose Garden Bank
1927 Prize Garden

New Entrance at Pelham
Avenue

200th Street Entrance

Conservatory Beds

Conservatory Beds

Dwarf Plantation
West Border

Road and Paths
Morphological Garden
White Pines rearranged

1,060 64 varieties
560 5 “
560
510 68 ‘

66 28
85 li

2,587 126 “

3,813 99 -

5,150

2,087 bulbs 120 varieties
cé 0 ee

713,874

in Conservatory Beds
plants

bulbs

plants

AO climbing va-
rieties

shrubby plants and
many others.

shrubs and small trees
plants

“of Hemerocallis
from Dr. Stout

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Young Chamaecyparissus
put in Nursery 436 plants
Compost Pile 11 “*

LECTURES
I have delivered four lectures in the regular courses.

KENNETH R. BOYNTON,
Head Gardener.

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REPORT OF THE HONORARY CURATOR,
IRIS AND NARCISSUS COLLECTIONS

Dr. N. L. BRITTON, DIRECTOR-IN-CHIEF.
NARCISSI

Sir: I have the honor to submit herewith my report as
Honorary Curator of the Iris and Narcissus Collections for
the year 1927.

When the original natural plantings of Narcissi were
made, we had at our disposal a large number of the
trumpet varieties and, as it was doubtful if they would
succeed very well in the heavy grass at that location, the
plantings were made slightly thicker than would have been
the case with varieties known to be “grass-proof.” To our
astonishment these trumpet varieties increased enormously
and the effect was rather crowded. This has been relieved
by judicious thinning in order to give a more natural ap-
pearance, and the many thousands of bulbs obtained have
been used to plant the sides of the walk that runs from
the Fordham Entrance to the Iris Garden Gate. We also
made additions to places where there were unattractive and
formal straight edges to plantations, such as among the
Mallows, behind the collection beds, along the Memorial
Plantation of Douglas Fir, and among the new evergreens
that are now between the Alphabetical Iris Garden and the
Narcissi. Besides all this, we planted the edges of the
wooded land along the drive that leads to the Iris Garden
Entrance. We have endeavored to improve this drive and
it is hoped that this next summer we will be able to do
more thinning and complete the edge of the woodland and
join up the plantation at the Iris Garden Gate with the
planting done along the Rock Garden path. As the fence
and gates were in course of construction, we were forced
to leave this end for another year, finishing only as far as
the Alphabetical Iris Garden. All these plantings will im-
prove as time goes on and we expect to see some real results

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in the spring of 1929. The crowds of visitors attracted each
spring seem to show that this effort has not been in vain.

ALPHABETICAL IRIS GARDEN

Fine evergreens planted between this garden and the
Narcissus collection have helped the general effect very
considerably. The Iris plants received have been held in a
reserve bed to be added as needed. During the blooming
season we checked over the plants, discarding mistakes and
filling the gaps where we had the varieties. A few of the
larger clumps were divided and the surplus sent to other
test gardens. We propose to thin this planting after flower-
ing this summer and distribute the surplus. Two new beds
were dug and varieties of later introduction than those
already arranged were temporarily planted there. As there
are many empty spaces, probably because the varieties are
obsolete, we are planning to fill these gaps with these later
introductions not already in this garden and with names
beginning with the same letter as the names in the near
vicinity.

COLOR PLANTING

Plants here were checked also and mistakes corrected
or discarded. Good varieties were spread to fill spaces and
some sorts, of which we had too large a number, were
cut down. New plantings were made with varieties from
the Trial Garden given to us by the originators. This
garden was a very beautiful sight when in bloom. The beds
of Dwarf Irises in the center began to flower very early in
April and there were still flowers of the Tall Bearded varie-
ties at the end of June. It was noted that the blue bed was
dull in color effect and we propose to introduce some pale
yellows and whites to lighten it and throw the blues into
relief. A special effort will be made to plan this’ change
during the next flowering season. Both here and in the
Alphabetical Garden a dressing of ground-limestone was
given during the summer. Plants were distributed to other
test and display gardens in considerable numbers and were

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used also as prizes for an American Iris Society show held
in New Rochelle in June.

BEARDLESS IRIS GARDEN

Here there was a very great loss of plants, owing to the
open winter, three hundred and ninety-five native varieties
having taken their departure for the Elysian fields. The
mortality took place among varieties from Louisiana and
swampy districts of Florida. The Texas and North Carolina
varieties seem to be quite hardy. However, only two winters
to test their hardiness would not be enough time to draw
any definite conclusions about any one variety. The beds
were again filled with newly collected plants of Dr. Small’s,
sixty-seven “labels,” four hundred and sixty plants being
used. Miss Chandler crossed many of the varieties, collected
the seed and planted them and some are beginning to appear
above ground. We need more Sibirica varieties. Twenty-
six species were given to Mr. Boynton to replant the Iris
beds in the Herbaceous Garden.

TRIAL PLOT

The plants judged in 1927 and 1928 were lifted, divided,
and returned to the originators that wished them. We re-
ceived, through the very great generosity of these owners,
many plants for our color planting and for distribution to
other test gardens. During the summer eighteen plants
were received from six originators for judging in 1929
under the American Iris Society plan.

NURSERY

Dr. Small’s spring collections were planted in three ways,
in pots for the frames or houses, in the Nursery and in the
Beardless-Iris Garden. He also distributed a great many.
The last lot collected had to be potted, as it was too late to
risk them out of doors. Those planted in the Nursery in the
spring made a good growth and a few of them flowered in
the autumn and paintings of them were made. Boards, set
up on edge, have been put along the rows, and branches of

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deciduous trees with a sprinkling of hay have been put over
the top; so it is hoped that enough of the plants will be left
to give good flowers this spring. The new Breeding Garden
under Dr. Stout was started, the ground being dug, and
seedlings from Mr. Moore’s crosses being planted. Plants
purchased by the American Iris Society and given by Mr.
B. Y. Morrison have been added. Other plants are being
ordered at present.
STATISTICS

Alphabetical Garden. Added, 42 varieties. Discarded, 14
varieties.

Color Planting. Added, 61 varieties, 257 plants. Dis-
carded, 9 varieties.

Beardless-Iris Garden. Added, 67 “labels,” 460 plants.
Loss, 395 plants.

Reserve Beds. Discarded, 35 varieties.

Trial Plots. Received for judging 1929, 18 plants from
6 originators.

Nursery. Collected in spring, planted in pots, 72 varie-
ties, 412 plants. Collected in spring, planted in nursery,
72 varieties, 2,099 plants.

Breeding Garden. Received through purchase A. I. 8., 40
varieties, 113 plants. Derived from collected seed, 71 plants,
8 collectors.

Total plants received other than those taken from Trial
Plot: Collected, 4,490; Gifts, 355.

COLLECTORS

E. J. Alexander, North Carolina; Mrs. I. W. Auld, South
Carolina; Mr. Beadle, North Carolina; Miss M. Bissell,
Florida; F. W. Campbell, Michigan; H. M. Hall and A. A.
Heller, California; Mrs. W. H. Peckham, Vermont; Rain-
bow Gardens and Dr. J. K. Small, Florida and Louisiana;
A. Svihla and R. D. and A. Svihla, Louisiana; Dr. E. T.
Wherry, Indiana. The largest number collected was 3,318
by Dr. Small.

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DONORS

J. K. Alexander, William N. Arnold, S. S. Berry, Miss
M. Bissell, Mrs. M. E. Black, F. W. Campbell, Mrs. R. M.
Davis, Mrs. M. I. De Graaff, Mrs. G. Dyer, The Garden of
Arcadin, Prof. R. A. Greene, C. H. Hall, Howard Judson,
Frank Koehler, Mrs. C. 8. McKinney, J. J. Moffitt, Jr., F.
Cleveland Morgan, B. Y. Morrison, Col. J. C. Nichols, J. F.
Otis, Mrs. W. H. Peckham, O. M. Pudor, Ramsey’s Austin
Nursery, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, through W. J. Bean,
H. P. Sass, Jacob H. Sass, Mrs. A. H. Scott, J. Marion Shull,
Jacob Shulz, Mrs. Charles H. Stout, Miss Grace Sturtevant,
Howard Weed, and E. B. Williamson.

Respectfully submitted,

ETHEL ANSON S. PECKHAM,
Honorary Curator, Iris and Narcissus Collections.

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REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR OF THE LABORATORIES
FOR THE YEAR 1927

Dr. N. L. BRITTON, DIRECTOR-IN-CHIEF.
GENERAL MATTERS

Sir: I submit herewith my annual report for the year
1927.

During the year there have been obtained for the
laboratories, one paraffin oven, two constant-temperature
ovens, one drying oven, and one refrigerator which is espe-
cially equipped to give constant temperatures as low as near
32° Fahrenheit. All these are operated with electricity.
Two new binocular dissecting microscopes, a photo-micro-
graphic camera, and various minor pieces of apparatus
have also been obtained for the more general needs of the
staff. These have entailed an expenditure of $1,500. An
expenditure of $1,000, requested for next year, will meet
our present needs quite fully as far as the laboratory space
will admit.

On September 1st, Miss Clyde Chandler became technical
assistant, filling the position left vacant by the return
of Mr. T. Susa to his native land.

My codperation with The Horticultural Society of New
York as secretary of the International Conference on
Flower and Fruit Sterility and as editor of the proceedings
of this Conference has culminated during the year in the
publication of these proceedings as a memoir of the Society.

The usual routine duties that fall to me have been per-
formed as in the previous years and need no special enumer-
ation here.

PERSONAL RESEARCH

Problems involved in the sterility and the fertility of
plants and in plant-breeding continue as my major lines of
effort.

The studies with day lilies (Hemerocallis). Most encour-
aging results have been obtained in the work with day lilies.

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Various of the seedlings that bloomed for their first time
this year have given new types of flower colorings, among
which the eyed patterns and the pink and red colorings are
very attractive. Some of these will no doubt prove valuable
as floricultural plants. The collection of species and seed-
lings is being utilized for further experimental and cytolog-
ical studies in sterility.

Studies with species of Lilium. In our studies of lilies it
has become very evident that diseases, hitherto mostly un-
recognized, are responsible for the death of many lilies in
gardens and in greenhouse culture. The spread of destruc-
tive diseases of the mosaic and virus types is, I believe,
largely responsible for our failure to make the desired
progress in breeding and rearing lilies from seed, the plans
of which have been presented in a special report* and have
been mentioned in various of these annual reports.

I am much gratified to be able to record here that during
the past year the study of lily diseases has been organized
under the codperation of the Horticultural Society of New
York, the Department of Plant Pathology of Cornell Uni-
versity, the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research,
and The New York Botanical Garden. The articles of agree-
ment in this codperation were ratified by the authorities of
The New York Botanical Garden and are on file. An inves-
tigator, Mr. Carl S. Guterman, has been secured, who is
devoting nearly all his time to the study of the diseases of
lilies. It is the plan to keep only healthy lily plants in the
experimental plots and display plantings at the Garden and
to determine how lilies may be maintained free from disease
in general garden culture.

Papers reporting on experiments and on the results of our
studies with lilies are being printed from time to time.

Sterility in Irises. This year the American Iris Society
again provided for a scholarship for further work with
Trises. Miss Clyde Chandler was granted the scholarship

* Preliminary report of investigations with species of Lilinm. Jour. N. Y.

Bot. Garden 23:155-158. 1922.

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and the efforts were devoted to breeding along lines decided
by the Society. Special efforts were made to hybridize the
red-flowered southern species Jris fulva with hardy north-
ern species.

Cooperation with the New York Agricultural Experiment
Station. Beginning with the autumn of 1919, I have been
permitted to codperate with the Department of Horticulture
at the New York Agricultural Experiment Station in the
investigations of sterility in various fruit crops and in the
project of breeding to produce new varieties of seedless
grapes hardy in the climate of New York State. One such
new grape has now been produced which gives promise of
value and this stimulates us to further efforts in this work.
During the past year about 1,000 seeds were obtained—
all with such pollen parents as Panariti, Black Corinth,
Black Monukka, Sultanina, Sultanina Rose, and the new
seedless seedling. Various seedlings of earlier breeding are
yet to bloom. All the seedlings obtained in these cross-
pollinations are being grown to maturity under the super-
vision of the Department of Horticulture at the New York
Agricultural Experiment Station.

Tests for determining the pollination requirements of
important fruit crops are being continued. In several re-
spects these should be extended.

Investigations with poplars. This project is made pos-
sible by the codperation of the Research Department of the
Oxford Paper Company. The object is to produce hybrid
poplars that are of value in reforestation for pulp wood.
About 13,000 hybrids have been obtained, involving nearly
100 combinations between species. A nursery has been
established at Frye, Maine, where the best of these seedlings
are being propagated as rapidly as possible. Mr. E. J.
Schreiner has continued in this work with the assistance
of several persons in the employ of the Oxford Paper
Company.

Other Investigations. Studies of various types of ster-
ility, of variegation, and of doubleness of flowers are being
continued with various plants that can be grown in the

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experimental greenhouse. But in these there are no new
projects other than those mentioned in the report for 1926.
REGISTERED STUDENTS AND SCHOLARS
During the year, the following persons have been enrolled
at the Garden, either as recipients of scholarships or as
students registered for credits in Columbia University:
Bowers, Clement G., the Breeding of Rhododendrons and
Azaleas.
Fay, Dolores Joan, Plant Breeding.
Fiske, Winifred Amy, Plants used by Indians.
Goodlatte, Amelia R., Plant Breeding.
Krauss, Gertrude H., Plant Breeding.
Schreiner, Ernst J., Breeding, Pathology and Taxonomy
of the genus Populus.
A. B. Stout,
Director of Laboratories.

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REPORT OF THE BIBLIOGRAPHER

Dr. N. L. BRITTON, DIRECTOR-IN-CHIEF.

Sir: The usual assistance has been afforded to members
of the Garden staff and visitors consulting the library.
Appeals for bibliographic data are now received in increas-
ing number from workers in other institutions, and the
information asked is given, if possible, unless this would
require an amount of investigation that would interfere
seriously with my other routine duties, such as biblio-
graphic and editorial work.

Work on North American Flora has been progressing
rather more satisfactorily than in some recent years, but
is still far from being as rapid as is desirable. Two parts
have been issued during 1927: Volume 34, part 4, in June,
and volume 7, part 12, in October. Work is well under
way upon two volumes, 18 and 23, of which nothing has yet
been published. The first part of volume 23 will doubtless
appear in January, and more will follow quickly. No defi-
nite promises can yet be made to subscribers, however, in
the case of volume 18. Enough material for one part is
already in type and much more is in the hands of the
printers; several parts, however, will be devoted to a single
genus, Carex, and the author wishes to get as much of this
as possible into type at the same time, before any of it is
published.

Of Addisonia, five numbers have appeared during 1927:
the last of volume 11 and all four of volume 12. Of the
current volume, the first, second, and fourth numbers ap-
peared strictly on time, a record for promptness that has
not been attained since volume 5. At first glance it may
seem strange that there should be delays in getting out once
in three months a publication with only 16 to 24 pages and
8 plates; but the text is written by various contributors,
and the mechanical work is done by three different firms,
in two cities, and delay of any of those concerned makes
itself felt.

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There has been no single large collection of books pur-
chased for the library during 1927, but the number of indi-
vidual volumes bought has been more than six times the
average of recent years; these all go through the hands of
the bibliographer for his approval, and most of them are
selected by him. When the number is large, as this year,
the amount of time needed for this work merits mention,
although usually ignored in my annual report.

The bibliographer has given two lectures in the regular
public lecture courses of the Garden, and has accomplished
a very small amount of taxonomic investigation.

JOHN HENDLEY BARNHART,
Bibliographer.

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REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN

Dr. N. L. BRITTON, DIRECTOR-IN-CHIEF.

Sir: The moving of the library, which was commenced
late in 1926, was completed in the spring of the present
year. Under the new arrangement, works on general sci-
ence, both periodicals and the publications of societies and
institutions, also those on geology and palaeobotany, occupy
the rotunda and annex No. 1; general works on botany,
botanical periodicals, the publications of botanical societies
and institutions, floras and books treating of the taxonomy
of phanerogams are in the main stack-room; works on
eryptogams, pharmacognosy, and agriculture (in part) are
in annex No. 2, while the laboratory stacks are filled with
the publications of the state experiment stations and the
U. 8. Department of Agriculture and works on horticulture,
forestry, and landscape architecture.

There has been a notable increase in the number of
purchases during the past year, the greater proportion
being works on floriculture and landscape architecture.
This department now compares favorably with other
strictly horticultural libraries.

There have been added to the collection of bound volumes
by purchase, 877, including 345 items of the Barnhart
library purchased in 1926 but not hitherto accessioned; by
gift 36; by exchange and deposit 19; and by binding 501,
including 30 volumes belonging to Columbia University
(exclusive of 24 which were re-bound).

The bound additions for 1927 therefore number 1,433,
which, added to the total number in the library on December
31, 1926, 35,513, make a total of 36,946.

In addition to the 345 bound volumes of the Barnhart
library mentioned above, there have been accessioned 410
unbound volumes and pamphlets. The work of accession-
ing this library is now about half completed; it is neces-
sarily slow, since the task of cataloguing devolves entirely
upon the librarian, with occasional advice from the bibliog-
rapher and clerical assistance in typing only.

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The principal accessions have been listed, as heretofore,
in the Journal.

Approximately 2,000 pamphlets remaining from the
Geneva purchase of 1923 have been sorted and alphabetized
but the work of cataloguing still remains.

The total number of catalogue cards typewritten and
filed during the year was 2,766; those issued by the Torrey
Botanical Club and filed, 4,872. Four boxes of new species
cards issued by the Gray Herbarium have also been filed
in their special cases, which, as stated in the last report
of the librarian, are again becoming crowded.

The granting of an additional ee assistant in the
autumn has made it possible to revise the current serial
list appended to the report of the Tee for 1921 (BULLE-
LETIN 12:41-61, and supplemented in 12:139, 211-212;
13:33, 126, 208). There has of necessity been a large
amount of correspondence connected with this work, and
since replies from some distant countries have not yet
been received it is possible that some changes may have to
be made in the list before its final printing.

SARAH H. HARLOW,
Librarian.
LIST OF SERIALS

* Serials subscribed for by the Garden.

{Serials subscribed for by Columbia University and deposited at the
Garden.

t Serials received in exchange by the Torrey Botanical Club and deposited
at the Garden.

§ Serials whose receipt is temporarily interrupted.

All others are received in exchange by the Garden.

ae eal tel sa a ee Auburn, Ala. [Publications.}
‘uskegee, Ala a
. " itka, Alask -

Tucson, Ariz. “
Fayetteville, Ark. "
i 7 " Berkeley, Calif.
7 2 " Fort Collins, Colo. ae

Agricultural Experiment Station, Auburn, Ala.

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ew Haven, Conn.

Gainesville, Fla.
Experiment, Ga.

Honolulu, Hawaii
Moscow, Idaho
rbana, Ill.
Lafayette, Ind.
Ames, Iowa
Manhattan, Kan.
Lexington, Ky.
Baton Rouge, La.
Orono, Me.
College Park, Md.
Amherst, Mass.
East Lansing, Mich.

University Farm, St. Paul, Minn.

Agricultural College, Miss.
Columbia, Mo.

New Brunswick, N. J.
State College, N. M.
G a, N. Y.
Ithaca, N. Y.
Raleigh, N. C.
Agricultural College, N. D.
Wooster, Ohio
Stillwater, Okla.
Corvallis, Ore.

State College, Pa.
Mayagtiez, Porto Rico
Kingston, R. I
Clemson College, S. C.
Brookings, S. Dak.

“

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pened Se oe cniaie Ala, [Publications.]
oxville, Tenn, -
ste Station, Tex.
Logan,
Burlington, Vt. “
7 a * eee Va. ne
St. oix, Virgin Islands
7 . es ois Wash. =
Morgantown, W. Va. -
Madison, is,

Laramie, Wyo.

aia eae of New South Wales, Sydney, N. S. W.

Alabam eological Survey, University, Ala. Bulletin, Report,
Monogra

A Lavoura: see Sociedade Nacional de Agricultura, Rio de Janeiro.

Algiers. Société d’Histoire Naturelle de ae rique du Nord: see Société
d'Histoire Naturelle de l’Afrique du Nor

*+Allgemeine Botanische Zeitschrift, aa Germany.

Amateur des Champignons: see L’Amateur des Champignons.

America. Botanical Society: see Botanical Society of America.

America. Geological Society: see Geological Society of America.

American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Boston, Mass. Proceedings.
American Association of Museums, Washington, D. C. Afusenm Work,
Museum News.
*American Botanist, Joliet, Ill.
*American Eagle, Estero, Fla.
*American Fern Journal, a Mass.
*American Florist, Chica 1
American Forests and Forest Life, Washington, D.C.
i N

American Gladiolus Society: see Gladiolus Review
American Institute of Park Executives: see Parks and Recreation.
American Journal of Botany, Lancaster, Pa.
American Journal of Pharmacy, Philadelphia, Pa.
*American Journal of Science, New Haven, Conn.
*American Microscopical Society, Urbana, Ill. Transactions
tAmerican Midland Naturalist, Notre Dame, Ind.
erican Museum of Natural History, New York, N. Y. Bulletin,
Report, ai: Histor
American Nature Accocianons see Nature Magazine
American Peony Society, Lancaster, Pa. Bulletin of Peony News.

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American Philosophical Society, oe Pa. Proceedings.

American Rose Society, Harrisburg, Pa. American Rose Annual.
*American Society for peed Science, College Park, Md. Pro-
ceedings.

Amsterdam. Koloniaal Institut, Amsterdam, Holland. Jaarverslag.
icht

mary.
+Annales des Sciences Naturelles: Botanique; Paris, France.
Annales Mycologici, Berlin, Germany.
Annali di Botanica, Rome, Italy,
*Annals of Applied Biclogy: eae England.
*Annals of Botany, London, Englan
Annals of the Bolus Herbarium: see Bolus Herbarium.
Antwerp. Jardin Botanique, Antwerp, Belgium. Seed i
Appalachian Mountain Club, Boston, Mass. Appalach
Arcachon, Société Scientifique d’Arcachon: see Société Scientifique
d’Arcachon.
*Archiv der Pharmazie und oe der deutschen pharmazeutischen Ge-
sellschaft, Berlin, m.
*Archiv fir W sence Boake Berlin, Germany.
Archivio Botanico, Forli
Archivos de Botanica de ee de S. Paulo, S. Paulo, Brazil.
oo Sociedad Cientifica Argentina: see Sociedad Cientifica
Arge
Arkiv oe Boinile Stockholm, Sweden
Arnold Arboretum, Jamaica Plain, Mace. Bulletin of Popular Informa-
tion, Journal,
Asiatic Society of Bengal, Calcutta, India. Journal, Memoir.
* Association ees pour l’Avancement des Sciences, Paris, France.
Compte Ren
Barcelona. ae de Ciéncies Naturals, Barcelona, Spain. Anuari.
Barcelona. sv Academia de Ciencias y Artes, Barcelona, Spain. Me-
morias, Bol
Basel. Nata forsee Gesellschaft, Basel, Switzerland. Verhandlungen.
Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Minchen; mathematisch-
physikalische ae Munich, Bavaria. Sitsungsberichte.
Bayerische botanische Gesellschaft zur Erforschung der heimischen Flora.
Munich, Bavaria. Berichte, Mitteilungen, Kryptogamische Forschungen.
*Beitrage zur Biologie der Pflanzen, Breslau, Germany.
*Beitrage zur Pflanzenzucht, Berlin, Geemany.
tBelgium. Société Royale de Botanique de Belgique, Brussels, Belgium.
Bulletin,
Bengal. Asiatic Society: see Asiatic Society of Bengal.

u . Aarbok.
Dergianska Tradgaarden, Stockholm, Sweden. dcta Horti Bergiani.

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Berlin. Botanischer Garten, Berlin, Germany. Notigblatt.
Bermuda. Department of Agriculture, Paget East, Bermuda. Report.

Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii. Occasional papers.
Better Homes and Gardens, Des Moines, a
{Bibliotheca Botanica, Stuttgart, Germany.

rm.
lus Herbarium (University of Cape Town). Anna

Boston. Meech District Commission. retin Ness: Annual
eport.

tBoston Society of Natural History, Boston, Mass. Proceedings.
Botanical Gazette, Chicago,
+Botanical Magazine, London, Eng
Botanical Society and ee a ‘Club of the British Isles, Arbroath,
dias Report.
anical Society of America. fac
any.

*Botanisches Centralblatt, ee,

*Botanisches Centralblatt, Beihefte, ai Germany.

tBotanisk Tidsskrift, Copenhagen, Denm

tBotaniska Notiser, ra Sweden

Botaniste: see Le Bet

Boyce Thompson ae a Plant Research, Yonkers, N. Y. Contri-
butions, Professional P

Brandenburg. ae che Verein der Provinz Brandenburg, Berlin,
Germany. Verhandlungen.

Bremen. ee Oe Verein, Bremen, Germany. <Abhand-

lungen.
British Columbia. Provincial Museum, Victoria, B. C. Report.
British Guiana. epartment of Science and Agriculture, Georgetown,

British Guiana. Report, Journal.
*British Mycological Society, Cambridge, England. Transactions.
pea ca Garden, Brooklyn, N. Y. Record, Contributions, Leaf-

Mer
oa. Heeb foe of Arts and Sciences, Brooklyn, N. Y. Report, Science
Bulletin, eee Museum News.
Br ersité; Faculté des Sciences. Brno, Czechoslovakia. Pub-
iepations (bot ue].
russels. titut Botanique Léo Errera, Brussels, Belgium. Recueil.
Brussels. i din Botanique de lEtat, Brussels, Belgium. Bulletin.
Bryologist, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Budapest. Museum Nationale Hungaricum, Budapest, Hungary. Annales.
Buenos Aires. Museo de Farmacologia, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

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Buenos Aires. Museo Nacional, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Anzales.
§Buffalo Park Commissioners, Buffalo, N. Y. Ann ‘
Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences, Buffalo, N. Y. Bulletin.
*Buitenzorg. Jardin Botanique, Buitenzorg, Java. Annales.
Buitenzorg. Jardin Botanique, Buitenzorg, Java. Bulletin.
Bulletin of Peony News: see American Peony Society.
Calcutta. Royal Botanic Gardens, Calcutta, India. Annals.
California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, Cal. Proceedings.
California State Department of Aguicaltice, Sacramento, Cal. Monthly
Bulletin.
California, University of, peed Cal. Publications in Agricultural
Sciences, Publications in Bot
California, University of; Gas School of Tropical Agriculture and
Citrus Experiment Station, Riverside, Cal. Publications.
Canada. Biological Board of Canada, Toronto, Canada. Contributions to
Canadian Biology.
*Canadian Field oe Ottawa, Can.
Candollea: see Geneva, Conservatoire et Jardin Botanique > Genév
Carnegie eee By Washington, Washington, D. C. Year Book,
Botanical Publica
Carnegie ee tion = ‘Washington Department of Botanical Research,
Tucson, Ariz. Repor
Carnegie ice aren of aes Department of Genetics, Cold Spring
Harbor, N. Y. Papers, Report.
Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, Pa. Annals, Annual Report, Memoirs.
Cellule: see La Cellule.
*Centralblatt fiir Bakteriologie: Abtheilung I, Jena, Germany.
*Centralblatt fiir Bakteriologie: Abtheilung II, Jena, Germany.
Charles University: see Prague. Charles University.
Charleston Museum, Charleston, S. C. Contributions, Que
Chicago. i of, Chicago, Ill. Contributions pte 7 Hull
Botanical Labora
Cincinnati Society of Natural History, Cincinnati, Ohio. Journal.
Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Cleveland, Ohio. Bulletin.
Cluj. Jardin Botanique, Cluj, Roumania. Bulletin, Seed Lists.
Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Colo. ee Science Series,
Colorado. University of, Boulder, Colo. Studies.
Columbia University, New York, N. Y. Arp nee Report, Catalogue.
Connecticut. Geological and Natural History Survey, Hartford, Conn.

etin.
Copenhagen. Botanic Gardens, Copenhagen, Denmark. Arbejder.
Copenhagen. Société Botanique: see Botanisk Tidsskrift.
ordeba. Academia Nacional de Ciencias, Cordoba, Argentina, Boletin.
Cracow. Académie Polonaise des Sciences et des Lettres, pe Poland.
Bulletin International B.

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Cuba. Estacién Experimental Agronémica, Santiago de las Vegas, Cuba,
W. Bulletin, Circular.
Cuba Review, New Y N.Y.
Cuba. Sociedad Cubana de Historia Natural “Felipe Poey”: see Socie-
Poey.’

Dansk Botanisk Arkiv, Copenhagen, Denmar
Davenport Academy of Sciences, Davenport, Ia. aes
§Delaware County iasdieste of Science, Media, Pa. Proce
Denison University, Granville, O. Journal of the S Aenkfc iene:
ek Botanical Laboratory: see Carnegie Institution, Department of
anical Resear
rae Botanische Gesai Ischaft, Berlin, Germany. Ber
Deutsche Dendrologische Gesellschaft, au Germany.
Mitteilungen.
Deutscher ee Medicinischer Verein fiir Béhmen.
“Lotos” in Prag: see “Lot
Direccion de Estudios Biotoeicees see Mexico, Secretaria de Fomento.
Dorpat. Jardin Botanique de Université, Dorpat, Esthonie. Seed Lists.
Dublin. Royal Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Dubli in, Ireland. Seed Lists.
Durham. University of Durham Philosophical Society, New Castle-upon-
Tyne, rhs Proceedings.
Dutch Guiana: see Suriname.
Ecological cia of America, Tucson, Ariz. Bulletin, Ecology.
Economic Geography, Worcester, s
{Edinburgh Botanical Society, Edinburgh, Scotland. Transact
are Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, Scotland. Seed Lists,
Note.
Elisha areal Scientific Society, Chapel Hill, N. C. Journal.
Empire State Forest Products Association, Alban : :
Field Museum of he ural History, Chicago, Ill. Publications: Botanical
Series, Report Ser
Finland. eee Geselischaft: see Forstwissenschaft-
liche Gesellschaft in Finland.
*Flora, Jena, Germany.
Florence. Istituto Agricolo Coloniale Italiano, Florence, Italy. L’Agri-
niale.

Florida. Department of Agriculture, Tallahassee, Fla. Florida Quarterly
por

Florida State Geological Survey, Tallahassee, Fla. Annual Report.
k, N.Y.

Flo 7 Y.
Folia Cryptogamica, eeired Hungary.

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Forest Leaves: see Pennsylvania Forestry Association.
Seamed Gesellschaft in Finland, Helsingfors, Finland.
naib Fen
pean Perea de France, Paris, France. Bulletin,
§France. Sat Dendrologique de France, Paris, France. Bulletin,
tFrance. Société Mycologique de ae Paris, France. Bulletin.
Frankfurt am Main. Senckenber oo Gesellschaft: see
Senckenbergische Narertorcticaae i schaft.
*Garden and Home Builder, New Yor

Gardeners’ Chronicle of America, New York, N. Y.

Bulletin: see Singapore. Botanic Gardens.

*Gartenflora, Munich, Bavaria, aie

*Genetica, ’"S-Gravenhage, Hollan

*Genetics, Brooklyn, N. Y.

Geneva. Copcervaroire et Jardin Botanique de Genéve, Geneva, Switzer-
oll

Geneva. Deb neal horticole ie (Jardin d’Acclimatation
Alpin.) Geneva, spe nd. See

Geneva. Société Botanique: see Be ee lee nique de Gené
Geneva. Université Fi poate Institut de Botanique, Gas Switzer-
land. nea t

Geographical Review, New York.

Geological Society of America, New York. Bullet:

Geological Survey of patie Peking, China. Bal eaeee Sinica.
Gladiolus Review, , N.

us Naterforshende Cease see Naturforschende Gesellschaft

u Gorlit

a nee Botanic Garden, meee Sweden. Acta, Seed Lists.

Gray Herbarium: see Harvard Univer

oe Jardin ae de ne Groningen, Holland. Seed
ist,

ists,

Hamburg. Naturwissenschaftlicher Verein, Hamburg, Germany. Ver-

handlungen. eae papers from the Abhandlungen.)

Hamburgische Institut ftir allgemeine Botanik, Hamburg, Germany.
en

*Hardwood Record, Chicago, Il.

Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. Contributions and Memoirs from
the Gray Herbarium

Havana. Academia de — Medicas, Fisicas y Naturales de la
Habana, Havana, Cuba. Ana

Havana. Universidad de la ae Havana, Cuba, Revista de la
Facultad de Letras y Cien

Hawaii. Board of aoe of Agriculture and Foresty, Honolulu,
T. H. Report, Hawatian Forester and Agriculturist.

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Hawaii, Sugar Planters’ Association Experiment Station, Honolulu, T. H.
Bulletin.

tHedwigia, Dresden, Germany.

Helsingfors. Universitets Botaniska Institution, Helsingfors, Finland.
(Miscellaneous botanical reprints and papers.)

*Hereditas, Lund, Sweden
olland, Société Botenique Néerlandaise: see Société Botanique Neéer-
landaise.
ome Acres, Pleasantville, N. Y
oker’s Icones Plantarum: see Icones Plantarum.

, Englan

§Illinois Academy of Science, Sprineheld: Hl. Pee rare
Illinois State Natural History Survey, Urbana, Ill. m ulletin.
Hilinois, University of, Urbana, Il. eee ‘Monsen

Imperial College of Tropical evicditure: see Tropical vee aie
Indi Records.

India. neal of ‘Apticultare in India, Pusa, India. Memoirs, Bo-
tanical Ser

*India ene “World, New York, N. Y.

Indiana Academy of Science, Tratanapolis Ind. Proceedings.
diana er Society, Lafayette, Ind. Transactions, Hoosier
Horticultu

mee anne of Agriculture, Rome, Italy. International Crop
Report and rua ees International Review of the Science
and Practice a Agriculture, International Review of Agriculture.

Iowa Academy of Sciences, ae Moines, Iowa. Proceedings.

Iowa Department of Agriculture, Des Moines, Iowa. Yearbook.

Iowa State College of Agriculture and — Arts, Ames, Iowa.

se

Jalta. Jardin Botanique de Nikita, Jaita, U.S. S. a Bulletin de V Her-
bier, Delectus Plantarum Exsiccatarum, Delect een Journal,

Jamaica. eae of Agriculture, Hope Ga a Kingston, Jamaica.
Annual Repor

Japanese Journa : of Botany, Tokyo, Jap

Java. Proefstation voor Suikerriet in West "Java, Pasoeroean, Dutch East

sti es
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md. Circulars.
S Cc.

m , Eng
Journal of the Arnold Arboretum: see Aaiold en

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*Journal of Bacteriology, Baltimore, Md.
*Journal of Biological Chemistry, ea , Md.
Journal of Botany, British and F eign, i onlen England.

*Journal of Forestry, Washington, D. C.

*Journal of General Physiology, Baltimore, Md.

*Journal of Genetics, Cambridge, Eng.

*Journal of Heredity, Washington, D.

*Journal of the Indian Botanical Society, Madea

*Journal of nies and Horticultural Science, a England.

Jurjeff : see Dor

ple Boaricier ‘Jahresbericht Leipzig, Germany.

cademy of Sciences, Topeka, Kans. Transe

ae i Boar of A ee Tooele. Kans, eas Report,
Biennial Repor

Kansas aa Science Bulletin, Lawrence, Kans

Kew. Royal Gardens, Kew, England. Bulletin oF Miscellaneous Infor-
mation.

Kief. Botanic Garden, Kief, U. S. 5. R. Bulletin, Seed Lists

Krasnodar. State Institute for Tobacco Investigations, Krasnodar,

8.5 i

*La Cellule, Lierre, Belgium.

L’Agricoltura Coloniale: see cee ee Agricolo,
§*L’Amateur des Champignons, Le Carr

a Murithienne: see Société Vatesane des Sciences Natirelies

kline, Mas.
lata. Univers ae Nac car Facultad de Agronomia, La Plata,

La Plata. Univers ad ee Facultad de Ciencias Quimica, La
Plata, Argentina. Revt.

elke oe Bae Garden: see Riga. Universitas Latviensis,
Hortus Botanicu

neeee of Piss Botany, Manila, P, I.

*Le Botaniste, Paris, France

Leland Stanford Junior University: see Stanford University.

Le Midi Horticole, Nice, France

Le Naturaliste Canadien, Quebec, “Cited,

Leningrad. Académie des Sciences, Leningrad, U. S.S. R. Traveux du
Musée Botanique.

Leningrad. Jardin Botanique Principal de 'U. S. S. R. Acta, ie

“Morbi Plantarum,” Scripta Sectionis Phytopathologiae, Notulae Sys-

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REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF
BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS

Dr. N. L. BRITTON, DIRECTOR-IN-CHIEF.

Sir: I have the honor to submit the following report for
the year 1927.

REGULATING AND GRADING

During the past year considerable regulating and grading
of the paths of the Garden has been accomplished. The two
sides of a path that was built on the western border from
the plaza of the New York Central Railroad to the 200th
Street Entrance were graded and sodded. At the Linnaeus
Bridge Entrance the gutters on the two sides of the road
were graded and sodded for a distance of 500 feet, and a
gutter 175 feet long was graded and sodded in the Rose
Garden.

Contractors working in the vicinity of the Garden who
were looking for a convenient place to dispose of soil un-
earthed from excavations have continued to cart large
amounts of this soil into the grounds. During the past year
they brought in about 10,000 yards of earth. We have been
filling in the bottom of the valley of the Long Lake and
8,500 yards of this soil were placed along its eastern side.
To complete the grading at the 200th Street entrance, 300
yards were used. There were 1,200 yards of excellent top-
soil taken from the excavations, which have been stacked
for potting purposes.

From January to April and during the month of Decem-
ber, eight men were assigned to continue the work of filling
in the Long Lake, which is now about one-half filled.

DRAINAGE
One catch-basin and 42 feet of 6-inch drainage pipe were
used for drainage at the Iris Garden Entrance. Three cul-
verts 12 inches by 18 inches by 40 feet were built to drain
the gutter north of the Linnaeus Bridge Entrance. At the
200th Street entrance a catch-basin and 54 feet of 6-inch

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drain-pipe were used to drain the guiters. In order to make
a connection with the sewer from the pump-room at Power
House 2, a cut 12 feet deep, 8 feet wide, and 50 feet long
was made. Wherever it was necessary, repairs were made
to the culverts and catch-basins throughout the Garden.
WATER SUPPLY

The water systems of the Museum Building, Conserva-
tory Ranges 1 and 2, the Propagating Houses, the stables,
the comfort stations, and all of the drinking fountains
around the grounds received extensive repairs. A new fire
hydrant has been installed on the main driveway east of
the Museum Building to replace one broken by an auto-
mobile.

PATHS

In order to connect the plaza of the New York Central
Railroad entrance with the 200th Street entrance, a 10-foot
path 336 feet long was built and a branch path running
from this path to Conservatory Range 1, 10 feet wide and
267 feet long was constructed. At Model Garden 3 a 10-foot
path 120 feet long and a flagged path 45 feet long and 4
feet wide were built. The path at the Linnaeus Bridge
Entrance was extended for a distance of 240 feet along the
Bronx River. A 10-foot path 150 feet long was built to
complete the connecting path to the west gate. At the Iris
Garden Entrance the paths were changed to meet the new
gate-post and the path at the north side of the Rose Garden
was extended 175 feet in an easterly direction. At Power
House 2 a 10-foot path 210 feet long was made ready for
Telford stone. The hill paths leading to Conservatory
Range No. 1, Iris Garden, and Japanese Cherry Collection
were given a coat of Tarvia and a light cover of ashes.

BUILDINGS

The steam and water systems of the Museum Building
and the window sashes and doors received necessary re-
pairs. The lecture hall, the east wing of the basement, and
the top floor of the Museum Building have been wired and

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are now ready for the use of electricity. Two coats of paint
were given to the east wing on the second floor of the
Museum Building. A wall case 38 feet 6 inches long, 5 feet
9 inches high, and 15 inches deep, and four herbarium
cases were built and placed in the herbarium. A new tele-
phone monitor with five new extensions was installed on the
first floor of the Museum Building.

The interior and exterior of Houses 12, 14, and 15 of
Conservatory Range 1 received two coats of paint; the roofs
of these houses were reglazed and the sash bars replaced.
The three-inch copper leaders were replaced in Houses 9,
10, 12, 14, and 15. In House 11, four concrete benches
were installed. There is now a total of 65 feet of concrete
benching 3 feet 6 inches wide in House 11. The broken
glass at Conservatory Ranges 1 and 2 and at the Propagat-
ing Houses was replaced by the painters.

The chimney of Power House 1 was extended to a height
of 100 feet. In order to accomplish this we added 35 feet
of brick work. At Power House 2, a 6-inch steam pump was
replaced and the fire-box of boiler 7 was reconstructed.

The steam engineers repaired the heating systems of the
Museum Building, Conservatory Ranges 1 and 2, the Propa-
gating Houses, and the comfort stations.

GROUNDS

A two-rail fence, 1,052 feet long, was erected around the
hill north of the Allerton Avenue Entrance, and another
two-rail fence 595 feet long was built north of the Iris
Garden Entrance. A one-rail fence 392 feet long was erected
around the Lily Pond. The Pelham Parkway Entrance at
the Iris Garden corner has been completed. On each side
of the driveway two posts 36 inches by 15 feet two inches
high were erected and on each side of the paths two posts
20 inches by 22 inches by 4 feet 4 inches were built. At
each end of the cast-stone wall two posts 30 inches by 380
inches by 9 feet high were erected. A cast-stone wall 12
inches wide, 4 feet high and 32 feet long was laid, which
connects the last-mentioned posts. Four posts 20 inches by

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20 inches, by 8 feet high, and 125 feet of 6-foot iron fencing
were used to connect the entrance with the Pelham Parkway
fence. Twenty-five posts 20 inches by 20 inches, by 8 feet
high, and 650 feet of an iron fence 6 feet high were used
to connect the Southern Boulevard fence with the entrance.

A wire-mesh fence 1,170 feet long and 7 feet high, with
a foundation 6 by 30 inches, has been erected around a con-
siderable part of the nursery. About 600 feet of a base for
this wire fence have been built.

Repairs were made to the cedar, one- and two-rail iron
fencing throughout the grounds, and the maps and signs
were repaired or replaced wherever necessary.

The Propagating Houses were supplied with fuel for four
months from wood cut from dead or fallen trees. Nearly
forty tons of hay were cut during the warm weather. Three
new carts and a team of horses have been purchased.

From May until September about a dozen picnics a week
visited the Garden, the parties including from 75 to 1,000
children each. These children attended the public, private,
and Sunday schools of Greater New York, Long Island, New
Jersey, and Connecticut, and were escorted to the picnic
grounds of the Garden by our special guards, who are
assigned to these grounds daily during the summer months.

During the past year four uniformed police officers were
assigned to the Garden from ten in the morning until six
in the evening. They were assisted by two officers in civilian
clothes. On Sundays and holidays ten guards, selected from
the gardeners and laborers, assisted the keepers in patrol-
ing the grounds. About 340 summonses were served by the
police officers for violations of park ordinances. The offen-
ders were arraigned in the magistrates’ courts and were
fined from one to twenty-five dollars each.

The number of visitors to the Garden has greatly in-
creased this last year.

For twenty-four hours every day, special guards were
assigned to the rose, gladiolus, and dahlia collections during
the summer months.

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Due to the watchfulness of our employees, very little
damage has been done to the plantations throughout the
grounds.

Respectfully submitted,

ARTHUR J. CORBETT,
Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds.

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REPORT OF THE PALEOBOTANIST

Dr. N. L. BRITTON, DIRECTOR-IN-CHIEF.

Sir: I have the honor to report as follows upon paleo-
botanical and other matters that have received my atten-
tion during the year 1927.

My principal item of research was concerned with the
fossil flora of Porto Rico. The study of the Tertiary flora
of the Collazo shales was continued. Identifications and de-
scriptions of species, based upon comparisons with the
existing flora of the region as exemplified by herbarium
specimens, were made, and the larger part of this work
was completed. The mechanical work of arranging the
manuscript and plates in the form and sequence desired
remains to be done.

Attention was also given to studies of the lithological
characters of the several different kinds of matrix in which
the plant remains occur, in order to infer and to visualize,
as far as possible, the ecological conditions that probably ob-
tained in connection with the flora; and in this connection
I am indebted to Professor H. N. Coryell and associates, of
Columbia University, for the lithological analyses and for
interpretations of the same.

Another series of Porto Rican fossil plant remains, from
the vicinity of Aibonito, collected during your sojourn on
the island in the early part of the year, was subjected to
careful examination, and the results attained may be found
listed in the record book under Lot No. 56 (Accession
No. 24).

I also examined and reported upon a series of specimens
of semi-lignitic woods and fruits, of Pleistocene age, from
Cuba, collected by Mr. Barnum Brown of the American
Museum of Natural History. These became the property
of the Garden, in exchange for the examination and report,
and may be found listed in the record book under Lot No.
57 (Accession No. 25).

An especially noteworthy accession to the paleobotanical
collections was a shipment of forty-five specimens of Euro-

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pean Mesozoic plants, containing forty-two identified spe-
cies, from Professor Rudolf Florin of the State Museum at
Stockholm, Sweden, sent in exchange for equivalent Amer-
ican material. These specimens may be found listed in the
record book under Lot Nos. 47-55 (Accession No. 23).

Accessions of paleobotanical literature, received as ex-
changes, include thirty-nine separate publications, from
fourteen foreign and eight American authors. Five of the
authors represent new contributors. Incidentally, it may
here be appropriate to note that one of the publications
received was “Plants of the Past,” a posthumous work by
Frank Hall Knowlton, one of the few American paleobota-
nists, who died November 22, 1926.

During most of the summer I was engaged in bibliogra-
phic research, correspondence, and editing of manuscript,
in connection with our joint revision of the flora of Staten
Island.

Five days, and parts of other days when time was avail-
able, were spent in field work on Staten Island and else-
where within the local flora range, and about fifty speci-
mens, including forty-four species, were collected and added
to the local herbarium.

T was in attendance at the Southern Museums Conference
at Charleston, S. C., April 7-9; the annual meeting of the
American Association of Museums at Washington, D. C.,
May 22-26; and the exercises held in connection with the
dedication of the new botanical laboratory building at Wel-
lesley College, Wellesley, Mass., November 3-5.

It was also my privilege to deliver a lecture in the regular
Garden course, on February 26, on “Some geological fea-
tures of The New York Botanical Garden.”

Finally, it is satisfactory to report that our facilities for
paleobotanical study in connection with the library and
collections, and incidentally in connection with the her-
barium, were recognized, and apparently appreciated, by a

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number of investigators interested in fossil plants, as evi-
denced by correspondence received and by visits from stu-
dents engaged in critical paleobotanical research.
Respectfully submitted,
ARTHUR HOLLICK,
Paleobotanist.

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REPORT OF THE HONORARY CURATOR OF THE
ECONOMIC COLLECTIONS FOR
THE YEAR 1927

Dr. N. L. Britton, DIRECTOR-IN-CHIEF.

Sir: I have the honor to submit the following report of
the Economic Collections, during the past year.

It is a pleasure to say that satisfactory progress has been
made toward completing the labeling of the specimens in
the Museum. In several previous reports, I have referred
to the increasing number of specimens that were supplied
only with the original record slips required for identifica-
tion, and have urged the importance of supplying formal
printed labels. The cost of printing single labels of this
kind has been prohibitive, so far as our resources are con-
cerned, so that my suggestions could not be followed. We
have now resorted to the method of typewriting labels, in
large type, on stiff paper. Although this must be regarded
as merely a temporary expedient, it is regarded as an im-
portant step in rendering the specimens more intelligible
and the Museum more educational.

Although the work is not completed, hundreds of labels
have been prepared and are ready for distribution. The
affixing of these individual labels will be followed by the
preparation of group labels, of a more explanatory char-
acter.

As I have been closely occupied with the study of tropical
American plants, especially with a large collection from
Bolivia, collected by Mr. G. H. H. Tate, of the Ladew Expe-
dition, this label work has been prepared by Mr. Alexander
under the direction of Dr. Small.

number of specimens, secured from time to time, have
been installed during the year.

H. H. Russy,
Honorary Curator of the Economic Collections.

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REPORT OF THE HONORARY CURATOR OF MOSSES

Dr. N. L. BRITTON, DIRECTOR-IN-CHIEF.

Dear Sir: During the year 1927 some notable additions
have been made to the moss collections. By the gift of Dr.
George N. Best of his large private collection the Garden
has acquired many interesting specimens, which are being
mounted and accessioned, and so far total 1,578 packets.
In addition, 2,095 specimens have been mounted. These
include the regular exsiccatae distributed by Dr. Grout and
by Professor Holzinger. Several large collections have been
received from the National Herbarium in Washington,
including Paul Standley’s Costa Rica mosses, Dr. Maxon’s
from Jamaica, Brother Arséne’s from Mexico and Louisi-
ana, and Mr. Leonard’s from Haiti.

Mr. Williams has devoted much time to the study of sev-
eral large South American collections, and Mr. E. B. Bar-
tram, with our assistance, to the Central American species.
The Field Museum at Chicago has continued to send its
collections from Peru; and accessions have been received
from Venezuela and Colombia, collected by Pittier, Killip,
and others. An interesting collection from the Galapagos
Islands, made by Alban Stewart, was received from Miss
Alice Eastwood. The museum of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, has
also sent specimens for study. Miscellaneous North Amerti-
can mosses have been added, notably from Kentucky, New
Mexico, Louisiana, Wyoming, Utah, Alabama, and Florida.
Few Canadian and Alaskan mosses have been received.

Mr. Williams has been very faithful in his devotion to
the collections and has supervised the mounting and trans-
ferring of the whole moss herbarium during our absence
in Porto Rico.

The death of Miss Olivia Phelps Stokes removes one of
our honorary members of the Advisory Council. The gen-
erous gift by Miss Stokes and her sister in 1902 of a fund
to be devoted to the protection and study of wild flowers,
has enabled the Garden to give great help toward the con-
servation of our native flora. The demand for information,

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lectures, and literature has become constant and widespread
and has laid a broad foundation for the Garden Club of
America, and the National Wild Flower Preservation So-
ciety to continue the work already started.

I have continued to supervise the care of the lantern-
slide collection and wish to express our thanks to Mrs.
Bodman and Mrs. Peckham for their interest and help. Dur-
ing the year 240 slides have been added, 219 of which were
colored, and thirty-nine lectures have been given in which
our slides were used. The demand from garden clubs and
other associations for talks continues to increase and a
large correspondence occupies much of our time. Requests
for the loan of lantern-slides are frequently made and the
accumulated interest of the Stokes Fund could not be used
to a better purpose than the making of slides to meet such
demands.

Respectfully submitted,
ELIZABETH G. BRITTON,
Honorary Curator of Mosses.

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REPORT OF THE HONORARY CUSTODIAN OF
THE LOCAL HERBARIUM

Dr. N. L. BRITTON, DIRECTOR-IN-CHIEF.

Sir: My report as Honorary Custodian of the Local Her-
barium is necessarily brief for the year 1927.

I have been able to do only a little collecting in the vicin-
ity, chiefly of species of Orchidaceae. Mrs. Mitchell, my
efficient helper, has prepared the following statement of
work done in the Herbarium:

Some distributing and sorting was done and during the
summer each specimen from Staten Island was located and
checked by the Staten Island list, according to the Direc-
tor’s instructions; a number were taken out for inspection
and later redistributed.

The work carried on in the Bicknell Herbarium consisted
largely of the sorting of the unmounted specimens of Salica-
ceae to Fabaceae inclusive and the laying out into sets and
label-writing of the same. Seventy hours outside assistance
during the summer completed the label-writing of the ap-
proximately twenty-five families, some small, some large,
such as Brassicaceae and Rosaceae. There are now 8,545
sheets written in the Bicknell Herbarium.

The accessions for the Local Herbarium amount to 199
specimens.

H. M. DENSLOW,
Honorary Custodian of the Local Herbarium.

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REPORT OF THE CHAIRMAN OF THE
SCIENTIFIC DIRECTORS

ARDEN

Gentlemen: The Scientific Directors have held their reg-
ular meetings through the year, and have considered many
matters relating to the adequate maintenance and further
development of the Garden. The scientific and educational
activities of the Garden are fully summarized in the report
of the Director.

We especially regret to have to record the resignation of
our colleague, Doctor F. S. Lee. Doctor Lee has always
given freely of his time and has shown unbounded interest
in the problems involved in the continued growth and im-
provement of the Garden. To his initiative and untiring
efforts we owe the movement which led to the Olmsted
Report and the plans under which the Garden has had over
$1,000,000 added to its endowment.

The Scientific Directors have continued to give much time
to the consideration of the problem of adequate protection
of the plantations from plant diseases and insect pests. In
common with all other public parks and gardens as well as
the owners of estates with forests and decorative planting,
the Garden is confronted with the necessity of continually
increasing its efforts for protection against epidemic out-
breaks of insect and fungous parasites.

With the growth of the city to and around the Garden we
are also confronted with more insidious and physiologically
dangerous atmospheric, soil and moisture conditions, con-
trol of which is yet largely to be worked out.

The New York Botanical Garden is well situated to take
the lead in the study and solution of all these great prob-
lems, not only for our own metropolitan district but for
city planting generally.

To THE BOARD OF MANAGERS OF THE NEW YORK BOTANICAL
G :

Respectfully submitted,

R. A. HARPER,
Chairman of the Scientific Directors.

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TREASURER’S REPORT FOR THE YEAR ENDING
DECEMBER 31, 1927
EXHIBIT I

BALANCE SHEET
December 31, 1927

JoHN L. Mrrrinyu, Treasurer

ASSETS
Permanent Fund Assets:
Investments (Exhibit III).............. $2,261,947.79
Cash awaiting investment............... 8,710.69
———— $2,270,658.48
Permanent fund assets expended for cur-
rent uses (See current fund liability
per contra) ...... cc cc cee cece eee e ees 44,592.01
————_-— $2,315,250.49
Current and Working Assets:
Cash in banks and on hand:
1 purposes ........... eee eee $ 13,378.38
Special purposes ...........2.02..0008 17,105.28
——§|_—— $ 30,483.66
Account receivable—City maintenance.... 17,464.11
Interest and dividends _ receivable
CExhibit- LID) fe.skeaaieease Sawa hs 30,447.77
repaid insurance premiums............. 1,716.75
——_—————— 80,112.29

$2,395.362.78

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EXHIBIT I
BALANCE SHEET
December 31, 1927

LIABILITIES
Permanent Funds (Exhibit IV):
Restricted endowments ............ccccccceeeeeseene $ 179,367.47
Unrestricted endowments, including unconditional be-
quests set aside a the Board of Managers as
permanent: funds 2.43 ve se aie eee neres sen ttas sees s 2,118,411.82
Special endowment, we life interest in respect of

income therefrom ........0cccccee tcc cn eeeeeeaeeee 17,471.20
—————_—. $2,315,250.49
Current Liabilities oe Special Funds:
ae rent Pes nee
fs peak ee ame aw Cale ecole eee oe eae $ 3,320.61
Sie “ings. (Exhibit V
Unexpended income ti restricted
Bde bee Ge a relat asc eeaNeametnchat $ 5,071.16
Unexpended contributions set aside by
the ard of Managers for specific
Sane beevse Roses aweea Pekin eas 12,034.12
——_—___—— 17,105.28
Deferred income credits
Membership ne paid. in advance...... $ 700.00
Subscriptions paid in advance......... 215.00
—_—_——_—- 915.00
Indebtedness to permanent funds for ex-
penditures of fund assets for current
USES). . ccancceerds) Snslslavitldw wie tk wa GA bee paisie 44,592.01
Surplus
ate at December 31, 1926.......... $ 9,301.67
eee elas os income over expendi-
tures e year ending December
31, toap "(Exhibit 0D eee aa nan 4,877.72
14,179.39
————__ 80,112.29
$2,395.362.78

aaa WATERHOUSE & CO.
ERTIFICATE OF AUDITORS

We have examined the books and accounts of The New York Botanical Garden

year ending 1, 1927, certify that the attached balance
sheet (Exhibit I) and relative statements (Exhibits II to inclusive) are
rrectly prepared therefrom, in our opinion, set forth fairly the financial

CO.
ats of the corporation as at December 31, 1927, and the transactions for the
r ended on that dat
Prick, WaTerHousE & Co.
56 Pine Street, New York, March 20, 1928.

EXHIBIT II
Statement of Operations for the Year Ending December 31, 1927

City Restricted
: General | and special Total
maintenance funds
Inco:
Pom from investments
of permanent funds. ae be 96 | $ 8,774.66 | $115,198.62
Contributions ............ $230,000.00 996.17 10,865.41 | 246,861.58
Mem a ree
Anntial .cc2ccncdaneees 15,340.00 15,340.00
Sustaining ..........65 475.00 475.00
Sales oe “duplicate books
sundries .....+...- 316.50 316.50
Subscriptions and sales of
publications ........... 3,510.87 2,837.84 348.71
7 income ........ $230,000.00 | $132,062.50 | $22,477.91 | $384,540.41
Expen
Mee ane and general
es:
Salaries of Director-in-
chief, assistants an
gs Stall ssscens $161,155.42 | $52,555.60 $213,711.02
Saisnaes seater 22,886.25 30,685.40 |. 53,571.65
Materials and a 45, 958.33 4,497.93 50, 456.26
Stationery, printin g, ¥\
postage, etc. ........ 4,048.10 |: 4,048.10
ee and exchange. . "372.95 372.95
ere 1,465.27 ,465.27
Miceli SAaaewass 3,632.12 3,632.12
$230,000.00 | $97,257.37 $327,257.37
Improvements and exhibits :
mprov Meare to buildings »,
and grounds .......... $13,394.21 F.$ 4,885.41) $ 18,279.62
Museum conan pur-
chased ............000- 1,630.83 1,630.83
Library equipment pur-
hased ...........00005 456.00 456.00
Laboratory equipment pur-
Chased eiaccr ond caw eects 1,975.43 1,975.43
Garden equipment pur-
chased! s.ccct ty esiiekvs 2,339.00 2,339.00
Library books, bindings, .
Serene aeeacde feet 1,435.10 2,500.00 | 3,935.10
Mu a m specimens ...... 624.85 624.85
Plant purchases and ex- :
PENSES 2... ee eee eee eee 78.00 907.89 | 985.89
Botanical exploration and
collections ...........- 541.06 541.06
Model Garden prizes..... 200.00 |= 200.00
$21,849.63 | $ 9,118.15 | $ 30,967.78
Education and research:
Public aa and in- |
instruction ............ $ 1,660.50} $ 19.384 1,679.88
Scholarships prizes, etc. 150.00 150.00
Publications ............ §,759.40 5,525.89 11,285.29
ree 507. 507.
Investigation and eser-
vation of native ae 14.84 14.84
$ 8,077.78 | $ 5,560.11 | $ 13,637.89
Total expenses ...... $230,000.00 | $127,184.78 | $14,678.26 $371,863.04
Excess of income over ex-
penses for the year...... — $ 4,877.72 | $ 7,799.65 | $ 12,677.37

Summary of Investments, December 31, 1927

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EXHIBIT III

Preferred ...
Common ....

Special Trust
und:
Common stock

Aver-
age
yield
Par value Accrued for
(No par value] Approximate Book imterest year
stocks at book arket value and on
value dividends basis
Dec. 31, 1927 | of
boo
value
$ 549,000.00 | $ 554,140.00 | $ 534,919.63 $ 7,243.95 | 4.92%
45,000.00 54,125.00 50,602.50 687.50 | 5.43
14,700.00 21,756.00 17,091.67 220.50 | 5.16
$ 608,700.00 | $ 630,021.00 | $ 602,613.80 $ 8,151.95 | 4.97%
5.43%
$ 515,000.00 | $ 518,641.25 | $ 462,613.81 $ 9,041.24
112,500.00 142,206.25 121,787.51 1,356.25 | 5.83
72,200.00 183,326.50 93,762.50 1,805.00 | 7.78
$ 699,700.00 | $ 844,174.00 | $ 678,163.82 $12,202.49 | 5.80%
$ 220,000.00 | $ 226,843.75 | $ 220,158.75 $ 2,708.33 |5.00%
614,137.50 790,125.00 733,656.89 7,250.00 | 5.42
9,000.00 11,160.00 9,900.00 135.00 | 5.44
$ 843,137.50 | $1,028,128.75 | $ 963,715.64 $16,093.33 | 5.32%
$ 23,600.00 | $ 34,928.00 | $ 17,454.53 _ 8.69%
$2,175,137.50 | $2,537,251.75 | $2,261,947.79 $30,447.77 | 5.40%

Summary of Average Yields of Investments for
Bon

Year

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EXHIBIT IV

Statement of Permanent Funds, Showing Changes During the Year Ending
December 31, 1927

Restricted endowments :

Olivia Ea ati
helps Stokes Fund.
Charles Budd etal

Unrestricted endowments :
Fun

David Lydig Fund..

alas Research
Win R Sands Fucd
pees Ogden Mills
cee Iden Fund es
Fanny Bridgham Fund
ties Lynde Stetson

Russell Sage and Mar-
aret Olivia Sage
Memorial Fun

Frances Griscom Par-

velopment Fund .

crymser Fund .
The
Fun

Special endowments:
Special Trust Fund....

Balance at es Balance at
Jan. 1, 1927 Additions | Transfers Dec. 31, 1927
$ 89,115.49

21,149.31 a ren
10,347.63 | $ 25,000.00 rts Bae
25,000.00 25,000.00
3,000.00 3,000.00
755.04 755.04
5,000.00. 000.
$ 154,367.47 | $ 25,000.00 “$179,367.47
$ 228,513.54 | $ 929.52
34,337.86 ° aa
5,186.00 470.00 5656.00
10,000.00 10,000.00
48,099.17 48,099.17
10,000.00 10,000.00
30,000.00 0000.00
25,000.00 25,000.00
723 832.39 1,180.00 725,012.39
2,304.67 2304.67
565,951.00 | 397,221.33 $963,172.33
463,172.33 463,172.33
500,000.00 500,000.00
19,636.34 19,636.34
12,750.00 12,750.00
S000. 3,000.00
$1,702,860.97 | $415,550.85 sles $2,118,411.82
$ 17,000.00 | $ 471.20 $ $ 17,471.20
$1,874,228.44 | $441,022.05 = $2,315,250.49

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EXHIBIT V

SpsciaL Funps

Statement of Application of Income From Restricted Permanent Funds and
Special Contributed Funds Designated for Specific Purposes

Restricted permanent funds:
Endowment for science

#
Publication of “Addi-
SOMA’ eae sie eos
John Innes Kane Fund:
een oe and ex-

Maria "DeWitt Jesup

Bounical collections ...
Olivia E. and Caroline
und :

Fund:
Development of model

Special Funds contributed
for specific purposes :
ruts of Trustees

negie Corporation

for program of public
education ..........605
Gontebution K.
nan for construction
arden entrance

Con for Garden
Club lectures .........

Helen C. Inslee bequest
balance = oa
of Linnaean Bridge

Bal.
J Fe ae Additions |Expenditures| Dee 31, 1927
$ 869.04 | $ 4,359.53 | $ 3,653.43 | $ 1,975.14
3,872.46 3,872.46
$18.58 1,729.21 907.89 1,339.90
1,405.49 1,223.00 1,124.85 1,503.64
301.48 146.76 14.84 433.40
2.00 36.94 38.94
135.54 244.60 200.00 180.14
$3,232.13 | $11,612.50 | $ 9,773.47 | $ 5,071.16
$6,000.00 | $ 6,000.00 $12,000.00
4,865.41 | $ 4,865.41
53.50 19.38 34.12
20.00 20.00
$6,073.50 | $10,865.41 | $ 4,904.79 | $12,034.12
$9,305.63 | $22,477.91 | $14,678.26 | $17,105.28

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REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON PATRONS,
FELLOWS AND MEMBERS FOR THE
YEAR 1927

The number of new members who have qualified is 212.
The number of annual members is now 1,648; life members
120; sustaining members 2

Of the annual members 57 are now in arrears for dues
for 1927, 33 for dues for 1926 and 1927, 24 for dues for
1925, 1926 and 1927.

Dues have been collected to the amount of $16,070.

Two persons have qualified as life members by the pay-
ment of $250 each. These sums have been transmitted to
the treasurer.

A complete list of all classes of members to date is here-
with submitted

BENEFACTORS
Edward D. Adams, *Mrs. John Innes Kane,
*Mrs. Fanny Bridgham, =D. O. Mills,
*Hon. Addison Brown, J. P. Morgan,
*Andrew Carnegie, =J. Pierpont Morgan, Sr.,
Columbia University, John D. Rockefeller,
“Hon. Charles P. Daly, John D. Rockefeller, Jr.,
Daniel Guggenheim, | 4 *\Mrs. Russell Sage,
Murry Guggenheim, *Francis Lynde Stetson,
Edward 8S. Harkness, *Cornelius Vanderbilt.
Patrons
Oakes Ames, *Charles Deering,
George F. Baker, Henry W. de Forest,
*Miss Catherine A. Bliss, Dr. Robert W. de Forest,
Dr. N. L. Britton, *William E. Dodge,
*Hon, Addison aa James B. Ford,
*Andrew Carneg *George J. Gould,
*Mrs. George waa Collord, Edward 8. Harkness,
*Mrs. Louisa Combe, *Mrs. Esther Herrman,
*James M. Constable, Frederick Trevor Hill,

* Deceased.

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Archer M. Huntington, *William Rockefeller,

*Henry Iden, *William R. Sands,

*Mrs. Helen C. Inslee, *William C. Schermerhorn,
*Mrs. John Innes Kane, Mortimer L. Schiff,

*John Stewart Kennedy, *James A. Servicer

*Mrs. Mary J. Kingsland, *Mrs. Mary C. Scrymser,

Prof. Frederic 8. Lee, Mrs. Finley J. Shepard,
Mrs. Frederic S. Lee, *Samuel Sloan,

*J. Pierpont Morgan, Sr., *Mrs. Frederick F,. Thompson,
*Oswald Ottendorfer, *W. K. Vanderbilt,

*Lowell M. Palmer, 49 Mrs. Antoinette Eno Wood.
* Deceased.
FELLows For Lire

Edward D. Adams, Prof. Frederic 8S. Lee,
J. E. Aldred, Mrs. Frederic 8. Lee,
George I. Baker, William J. Matheson,
Miss Elizabeth Billings, Ogden Mills,

Dr. N. L. Britton, J. P. Morgan,

Mrs. N. L. Britton, Mrs. Lewis R. Morris,
Mrs. Andrew Carnegie, Mrs. George W. Perkins,
James W. Cromwell, E. A. Richard,

Mrs. W. Bayard Cutting, Mis. John A. Roebling,
Dr. Robert W. de Forest, Mortimer L. Schiff,
James B. Ford, Leon Schinasi,

Childs Frick, Mrs. Arthur H. Scribner,
Daniel Guggenheim, Mrs. John T. Terry,
Murry Guggenheim, Charles G. Thompson,
S. R. Guggenheim, Louis C. Tiffany,
William Halls, Jr. Tiffany & Company,

Mrs. William L. Harkness Felix M. Warburg,
Mrs. John Stewart Kennedy, Mrs. William H. Woodin.

Lire MEMBERS .-

Edward D. Adams, Dr. John Hendley Barnhart,’
Dr. Felix Adler, George A. Barron,

Dr. S. T. Armstrong, Aurel Batonyi,

Edward W. C. Arnold, Gustav Baumann,

Mrs. Hugh D. Auchincloss, Samuel R. Betis,-

William G. Bibb, °

Miss Elizabeth Billings, -
Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss,
George Blumenthal,’

G. T. Bonner, “

Mrs. Addison Brown,
Mrs. Andrew Carnegie,
T. Morris Carnegie,

Miss Marian Roby Case,
Frank R. Chambers,
Hugh J. Chisholm,

Hugh J. Chisholm, Jr.,
George C. Clark,

Banyer Clarkson:

Dr. James B. Clemens, ‘
William F. Cochran,

W. R. Coe,

William Colgate,

Miss Georgette T. A. Collier,
W. E. Conner’

Mrs. F. A. Constable,

S. Wilbur Corman,:

R. N. Cranford,

Melville C. Day, >>

Mrs. John Ross Delafield,"
Maturin L. Delafield, *
Rev. H. M. Denslow,”

W. B. Dickerman,*

Dr. George N. Miller,*~
Miss Josephine W. Drexel,.
Isaac W. Drummond;
Miss Ethel DuBois,
William A. DuBois,
George E. Dunscombe,
Thomas Dwyer, ‘
Ambrose KE. Ely,-
Dr. Jchn F. Erdmann,’

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(326)

Edward J. Farrell,
Marshall Field,

Mrs. H. J. Fisher,
Charles R. Flint,
Eugene G. Foster,
Mrs. John French,
Childs Frick,

Daniel Guggenheim,
Bernard G. Gunther,
Franklin L. Gunther,
Charles J. Harrah,

Mrs. ae O'D. Iselin,
Miss Annie B. Jennings,
Mrs. David J. Kelley,
Nathaniel T. Kidder,
W. B. Kunhardt,
Charles Lanier,

W. V. Lawrence,

Mrs. George Lewis,
Joseph Loth,

Louis Marshall,

Edgar L. Marston,
William J. Matheson,

C. W. MeAlpin,

Dr. George N. Miller, .
A. G. Mills, ~

Mrs. William F. Milton,
Dr. Lewis R. Morris,
Newbold Morris,
Sigmund Neustadt,

A. Lanfear Norrie,
Gordon Norrie,

George M. Olcott,

Mrs. Charles Tyler Olmstead,

William Church Osborn,

Gustavus A. Pfeiffer,

M. Taylor Pyne,

Miss Florence E. Quinlan,
John J, Riker,

J. C. Rodgers,

Thomas F, Ryan

Mrs. Herbert L. ‘Saienies:
Dr. Reginald H. Sayre,
Edward C. Schaefer,
Mortimer L. Schiff,

Mrs. I. Blair Seribner,
George Sherman,

James Shewan,

Miss Marion Smith,

(327)

Dr. Nelson Smith,
James Speyer,”

Miss Ellen J. Stone,
Albert Tag,

Paul G. Thebaud,
Charles G. Thompson,
Robert M. Thompson,
William Thorne,
Oswald W. Uhl,

Miss Anna Murray Vail,
F. T. Van Beuren,

Mrs. C. Vanderbilt,

F. M. Warburg,

John I, Waterbury,

8S. D. Webb,

Dr. W. Seward Webb,
John D. Wing,

Mrs. Anna Woerishoffer.

Sustaining MEMBERS

Miss Elizabeth Billings,
Miss Mary T. Bryee,
John Greenough,

Mrs. E. V. C. Hawkes,
O. H. Kahn,

Mrs. Frida Merz Krollpfeiffer,

Edgar L. Marston,
George Grant Mason,
Arthur M. Mitchell,
William Chureh Osborn,

Mrs. Mabel Prell,
Edward Prizer,

Mrs. James T. Pyle,
Mrs. M. Taylor Pyne,
Mrs. Stanley Resor,

J. E, Spingarn,

Dr. Edward H. Squibb,
William R. Stewart,
Charles Strauss,

Arthur Hays Sulzberger.

ANNUAL MEMBERS

Dr.. Robert Abbe,

E. F. Abell,

Benjamin Abert,

Miss Elisabeth Achelis,
John Achelis,

C. E. Adams,

Mrs. Elbridge L. Adams,
F. B. Adams,
Henry S. Adams,
Maurice D. Adams,

Mrs. George B. Agnew,
J. E. Aldred,

Mrs. Richard Aldrich,
Spencer Wyman Aldrich,
Mrs. Winthrop W. Aldrich,
Mrs. W. H. Aldridge,

Sir Douglas Alexander, Bart.,
Mrs. John W. Alexander,
Mrs. Frederick Allen,

Mrs. Alexander L. Anderson,
Mrs. Arthur M. Anderson,
P. Chauncey Anderson,

J. M. Andreini,

Miss Charlotte L. Andrews,
D. A. Ansbacher,

Mrs. John F. Archbold,
Francis J. Arend,

Reuben Arkush,

Mrs. H. O. Armour,
Benjamin Walworth Arnold,
Dr. William Aronstein,

B. M. Asch,

Mrs. M. Ascher,

Mrs. George H. Ashdown,
Mrs. Eugene Atwood,

Mrs. E. 8. Auchineloss,
Mrs. E. 8. Auchineloss, Jr.,
John W. Auchincloss,
Harmon Spencer August,
Chellis A. Austin,

Charles F. Ayer,

Frank L. Babbott,

Jules S. Bache,

Isaac D. Bachmann,

Mrs. T. L. Bailey,

(328)

Mrs. Earle Bailie,
Charles Baird,

Miss Charlotte 8. Baker,
George F. Baker,

Mrs. George F. Baker, Jr.,
Stephen Baker,

Albert H. Baldwin,
George V. N. Baldwin, Jr.,
William D. Baldwin,
Ancell H. Ball,

Mrs. D. C. Ball,

Edward L. Ballard,
Louis Bamberger,

Mrs. Thomas H. Barber,
Percival M. Barker,

Mrs. John Hampton Barnes,
George P. Bartholomew,
Mrs. H. G. Bartol,
George de Forest Barton,
Mrs. Martha Battle,
Felice Bava,

Mrs. L. P. Bayne,
Jeremiah Beall,

John D. Beals,

Edward E. Bechtel,
Lewis Bechtold,

Miss M. Elizabeth Beers,
Frank Begrisch, Jr.,
Hernand Behn,

Mrs. A. Frederick Behre,
Dr. Otto F. Behrend,
Frank N. Bell,

Mrs. Louis V. Bell,
William B. Bell,

A. Beller,

Alex. Benecke,

Andre L. Benel,

Mrs. W. W. Benjamin,
J. Philip Benkard,
Bruno Benziger,

Mrs. Charles F. Berger,
E. R. T. Berggren,

Dr. Alice R. Bernheim,
Mrs. Henry J. Bernheim,
Isaac J. Bernheim,
Charles L. Bernheimer,
Dr. Israel I. Bernstein,
Milton L. Bernstein,
Philip Berolzheimer,
Edward J. Berwind,
Miss Ellen I. Betty,
Mrs. George Biddle,
Mrs. Sylvan Bier,
Nathan I. Bijur,
Samuel H. Bijur,
Edward Lyman Bill,
Raymond Bill,

C. K. G. Billings,
Richard Billings,

Cecil Billington,

Mrs. John F. Birch,
Mrs. Stephen Birch,
Miss Katherine H. Birchall,
Maynard §8. Bird,

Mrs. Charles E. Birge,
James C. Bishop,
George H. Bissinger,
Mrs. Robert C. Black,
Mrs. Roger Derby Black,
Frederick 8. Blackall,
H. C. Blackiston,

Mrs. Dexter Blagden,
Mrs. Emmons Blaine,

J. Insley Blair,

(329)

Isidore Blauner,

C.N. Bliss, Jr.,

Miss 8. D. Bliss,

Mrs. Walter P. Bliss,
Delos A. Blodgett, 2nd,
Samuel Shipley Blood,
Lewis M. Bloomingdale,
Mrs. M. J. Bluen,

Dr. Richard Blum,

Hugo Blumenthal,

Sidney Blumenthal,

Mrs. Albert B. Boardman,
Bradford Boardman,

Miss R. C. Boardman,
Mrs. Edward C. Bodman,
Henry W. Boettger,
Robert Boettger,

Theodore Boettger,
Walter L. Bogert,
William H. Bolton,

Miss Rose Bondy,

Dr. Samuel Bookman,
Mrs. Howard S. Borden,
Mrs. Sydney C. Borg,
Louis Boury,

L. R. Bowden,

Miss Edith G. Bowdoin,
George T. Bowdoin,
Spotswood D. Bowers,
John Hall Bowman,

John McE. Bowman,

R. E. Boyd,

Mrs. Marius de Brabant,
Dr. Bernard Braveman,
Mrs. John C. Breckinridge,
Mrs. Jennie M. Breitenbach,
Mrs. Mollie F. Breitenbach,

(330)

George P. Brett,
Edward R. Brevoort,
George S. Brewster,
Hans V. Briesen,

Mrs. James E. Briggs,
John R. Brinley,

Mrs. Willard C. Brinton,
Jno. I. D. Bristol,

Miss H. Louise Britton,
Richard H. Britton,

Mrs. Harlow Brooks,
Thornhill Broome,
Ernest C. Brower,

Miss Aneita D. Brown,
Mrs. Archibald M. Brown,
Charles Hilton Brown,
Dickson Q. Brown,
Edwin H. Brown,
Franklin Q. Brown,

Mrs. Franklin Q. Brown,
Mrs. George McKesson Brown,
Mrs. Harold Brown,
Ronald K. Brown,

Mrs. Thatcher M. Brown,
Vernon C. Brown,
Warren D. Brown,

Mrs. J. Hull Browning,
Charles E. Bryant,

Miss Emily Buch,

Miss Anna J. Buechner,
Mrs. Jonathan Bulkley,
Dr. L. Duncan Bulkley,
Dr. C. V. R. Bumsted,
W. Douglas Burden,
Louis Burk,

Thomas Burkhard,

Mrs. F. A. Burlingame,

E. R. Burnett,
Algernon T. Burr,
Albert C. Burrage,
William F, Burt,
Donald F. Bush, Jr.,
Irving T. Bush,

Mrs. Wendell L. Bush,
Charles 8. Butler,
Miss Emily O. Butler,

Mrs. Leopold Cahn,

E. T. Caldwell,

Prof. Otis W. Caldwell,
Mrs. R. J. Caldwell,
Miss Emma W. Calkins,
W. R. Callender,
Henry L. Calman,
Henry L. Cammann,
Mrs. John Campbell,
Mrs. Robert James Campbell,
Henry V. Cann,

Henry B. Cannon,

H. W. Cannon,

Mrs. Charles F. Cantine,
Harry Caplin,

Mrs. Lister Carlisle,
Arthur L. Carns,

Mrs. J. Henry Carson,
Mrs. Ernest T. Carter,
Mrs. Robert J. Cary,
Dr. Louis Casamajor,

Mrs. William E. Cassell,
Frank J. Cassidy,
Robert M. Catts,

Mrs. E. Gerry Chadwick,
Joseph P. Chamberlain,
Norman Wilmer Chandler,
Mrs. Chamberlain Chanler,
Robert W. Chanler,

Mrs. Winthrop Chanler,

Mrs. Charles Merrill Chapin,
Miss Cornelia Van A. Chapin,

Miss Maria Bowen Chapin,
Mrs. Clarence E. Chapman,
John Jay Chapman,

José Edward Chaves,

D. Durant Cheever,

Mrs. George L. Cheney,
Miss Mary Cheney,

Paul H. Cheney,

Noah Chertoff,

8. W. Childs,

George E. Chisholm,

B. Ogden Chisolm,

Miss Caroline Choate,
Mrs. Joseph H. Choate,
Miss Mabel Choate,

Perey Chubb,

Charles T. Church,
Richard N. L. Church,
John Claflin,

Miss E. Mabel Clark,

F. Ambrose Clark,

Mrs. George Halford Clark,
James L. Clark,

William Clark,

E. A. S. Clarke,

Lewis L. Clarke,

Albert Clayburgh,

Mrs. Newcomb Cleveland,
A. Polhemus Cobb,

(331)

G. D. Cochran,

Mrs. Edward T. Cockroft,
Miss Mary T. Cockroft,
Edmund Coffin,

E. W. Coggeshall,

H. Z. Cohen,

William N. Cohen,
William W. Cohen,
Mrs. Rufus Cole,
Charles B. Colebrook,
C. Philip Coleman,
Miss Fannie Coleman,

Mrs. Richard C. Colt,
Miss Mary Compton,
Martin Conboy,

T. G. Co ;

Herman Conheim,

Miss Katherine A. Conner,
Joseph Conners,

Mrs. EH. C. Converse,

J. N. Conyngham,

Dr. Robert A. Cooke,
Robert Anthony Cooke,
James Bliss Coombs,

Marin LeBrun Cooper,
Mrs. Martin LeBrun Cooper,
George Eustis Corcoran,
H. C. Cornwall,

J. George Costello,

Mrs. Charles Henry Coster,
Mrs. Frank A. E. Cott,
Mrs. Winthrop Cowdin,

(332)

Mrs. Clarkson Cowl,

J. Howard Cowperthwait,
Mrs. Lewis J. Cox,

Mrs. John E. Coyle,

Miss Louise G. Crabbe,
Charles R. Crane,

George I. Crane,

Mrs. Jonathan H. Crane,
Mrs. Robert L. Crawford, 8rd,
William Crawford,

Miss Mary C. Crimmins,
Mrs. Thomas Crimmins,
George A. Crocker, Jr.,
Mrs. W. H. Crocker,

Rev. W. T. Crocker,

Dr. William Crocker,
James W. Cromwell,

Mrs. E. P. Cronkhite,
Miss Mary R. Cross,

W. Redmond Cross,

W. D. Crouch,

Mrs. Moses Crystal,

Mrs. Joseph F. Cullman,
Mrs. E. B. Currier,

F. Kingsbury Curtis,

B, A. Cushman,

Paul Cushman,

Mrs. Fulton Cutting,

R. Fulton Cutting,

Miss Eleanor De Graff Cuyler,
Mrs. Chester Dale,
Frederic A. Dallett,
Harold A. Danne,

Mrs. Ira Davenport,
DeWitt A. Davidson,

J. Clarence Davies,

Mrs. Ora Harkness Davis,

Mrs. R. C. Davis,

Alvah Davison,

Clarence B. Davison,
Mrs. Henry P. Davison,
Clarence M. Day,

Joseph P. Day,

Mrs. Walter L. Day,
Henry Dazien,

D. B. Dearborn, Jr.,

Mrs. Hiram E. Decker,
Henry L. de Forest,
Johnston de Forest,

Dr. Robert W. de Forest,
Mrs. Robert W. de Forest,
John F. Degener, Jr.,
Mrs. Carl] A. de Gersdorff,
Mrs. G. de Hasperg,

Mrs. Carlos de Heredia,
George T. Delacorte, Jr.,
Lyman Delano,

Moreau Delano,

William Adams Delano,
William C, DeLanoy,
Edwin H. Denby,

John B. Dennis,

Wilham P. Deppe,

J. L. De Rosset,

Thomas C. Desmond,
Julian F, Detmer,

Lee Deutsch,

Miss Harriet N. Devotion,
William G. DeWitt,
Fairman R. Dick,

Mrs. Watson B. Dickerman,
Mrs. A. H. Diebold,
George H. Diehl,

Charles F. Dieterich,

(333)

H. O.

Miss oe A. Dill,

Dr. William E. Diller,
Mrs. Alfred P. Dix,

Miss Gertrude Dodd,
Mrs. Cleveland E. Dodge,
Mrs. Cleveland H. Dodge,
Mrs. Murray W. Dodge,
Mrs. Robert L. Dodge,
Mrs. Washington Dodge,
Edward L. Doheny,

John Louis Dohme,
Bayard Dominick,

Gayer G. Dominick,

L. W. Dommerich,

Otto L. Dommerich,

Mrs. John W. Donaldson,

Mrs. Frank Nelson Doubleday,
Miss Elizabeth Douglas,

Mrs. George William Douglas,
Walter Douglas,

Joseph Dowd,

William J. ooo

Tracy Dow

Mrs. B. F. ee

S. F. Dribben,

Rev. William J. Duane, 8. J.,
Mrs. Matthew B. DuBois,

F. L. Du Bosque,

Mrs. William B. Dudley,
Mrs. Edward K. Dunham,
H. F. du Pont,

Pierre 8. du Pont,

Mrs. P. 8. du Pont,
Mrs. T. Coleman du Pont,
William du Pont,
Mrs. Theresa Mayer Durlach,
Mrs. Beatrice Durlacher,
Joseph A. Duross,
Miss Amy C. Duryee,
Mrs. Maitland Dwight,
Mrs. Winthrop Dwight,
Joseph N. Early,
Mrs. Frederick H. Eaton,
Henry J. Eckstein,
Mrs. James A. Eddy,
Mrs. Charles N. Edge,
Thomas C. Edmonds,
Mrs. Franklin Edson,
Harold T. Edwards,
Mrs. J. 8. Ehrich,
Mrs. Ernest Ehrmann,
Karl Eilers,
August Eimer,
Max Eisman,
Vladimir Eitingon,
Mrs. Robert G. Elbert,
Howard Elliott,
John 8. Ellsworth,
Mrs. Leonard Knight Elmhirst,
Miss Lydia F. Emmet,
Robert Temple Emmet,

rs. Arthur B. Emmons,
Mrs. William C. Endicott, Jr.
Louis A. Engler,
Mrs. William E. English,
R. Erbsloh,
Albert J. Erdmann,
Mrs. Frank H. Erisman,
Miss Katherine V. R. Erving,

Henry Esberg,

Mrs. Shepard Fabbri,
Eberhard Faber,

Harris Fahnestock,
Kenneth C. Faile,

G. Failla,

Arthur S. Fairchild,
Benjamin T. Fairchild,
Mrs. Charles 8. Fairchild,
Mrs. De Witt Clinton Falls,
Mrs. Max Farrand,
Mrs. Louise Fatton,

Dr. St. George Fechtig,
Mrs. Joseph Fuller Feder,
Leo Feist,

Herman Feldman,

E. Fellman,

Mrs. Henry Ferguson,
Louis Ferguson,

William C. Ferguson,
Mansfield Ferry,

Mrs. T. C. Figgatt,
Frank H. Filley,

Oliver Filley,

Mrs. Hamilton Fish,
Edwin A. Fisher,
Frederick T. Fisher,
Miss Ruth B. Fisher,
Samuel H. Fisher,
Benjamin F, Fitch,

Mrs. Benson Flagg,
Harry Harkness Flagler,
Horace C. Flanigan,
¥red T, Fleitmann,

(334)

Harry A. Florsheim,
Edward H. Floyd-Jones,
Julius H. B. Fogg,
Herbert Fordham,
Mrs. G. Lisle Forman,
Mrs. Harry Forsyth,
James B. A. Fosburgh,
Pell W. Foster,

W. F. Foulk,

Carl H. Fowler,
Robert L. Fowler, Jr.,
Frederick P. Fox,
George I. Fox,

Mrs. Irma A. Fox,

Mrs. M. J. Fox,

Mrs. William Fox,
Joseph S. Frank,
David J. Frankel,

R. A. Franks,
Alexander V. Fraser,
Mrs. George C. Fraser,
Miss Jane K. Fraser,
Miss 8. Grace Fraser,
Mrs. Leopold Frederick,
Mrs. Charles D. Freeman,

Mrs. Frederick Frelinghuysen,

Mrs. Childs Frick,
Mrs. Angelika W. Frink,
A. 8. Frissell,

John W. Frothingham,
John H. Fry,

John H. Fulle,

E, A. Funke,

Mrs. E. V. Gabriel,
Eugenio Galban,
Albert Gallatin,

H. W. Gamble,

Mrs. Howard S. Gans,
Mrs. Curtiss Gardiner,
Warren A, Gardner,
Francis P. Garvin,
Mrs. Walter Geer,

S. Gernsback,

Fred P. Geyer,

R. W. Gibson,

Prof. William J. Gies,
Mrs. William J. Gies,
R iffen,

J. Waldron Gillespie,
Mrs. Bernard F.. Gimbel,

cae E. Gledhill,
John M. Glenn,

John J. Glynn,

Mrs. E. D. Godfrey,
Harold Godwin,

Mrs. Mary R. Goelet,
Dr. 8S. Ormond ee
Julius Goldm

Dr. Alfred N. Calas:
Frederick Goldsmith,
Jonah J. Goldstein,
Louis Goldstein,
Abraham L. Goldstone,
Mrs. M. L. Goldstone,
Philip J. Goodhart,
James C. Goodrich,
Philip L. Goodwin,
Walter L. Goodwin,
Mrs. Philip Gossler,
Edwin Gould,

M. K. Goulder,

Mrs. Hugh J. Grant,

(335)

Joseph W. Grant,

Mrs. William Steele Gray, Jr.,

Miss Eleanor M. Greacen,

Mrs. Walter Greacen,

Mrs. C. Douglass Green,

Mrs. Frederick Voorhis Green,

Jerome D. Greene,

Mrs. William A. Greer,

Henry E. Gregory,

William M. Greve,

Mrs. John Gribbel,

aay E. Griffin,
Griffin,

— Susan D. Griffith,

E. Morgan Grinnell,

George Bird Grinnell,

Mrs. William E. 8. Griswold,

Miss Ethel Grow,

Willam C. Gruner,

Mason Fitzhugh Grymes,

Mrs. E. C. Gude,

Louis Guenther,

A. M. Guinzburg,

Mrs. Ralph Guinzburg,

Archibald A. Gulick,

Mrs. Charles 8. Guthrie,

William D. Guthrie,

Ralph W. Gwinn,

Miss Edith Haas,

John G. Haas,

Mrs. Harold W. Hack,

John A. Hadden, Jr.,

John H. Hall, Jr.,

Mrs. John H. Hall, Jr.,

M. J. Halligan,

Mrs. Charles W. Halsey,

William Hamann,

L. Gordon Hamersley,
Miss Elizabeth 8. Hamilton,
Lester A. Hamilton,

Mrs. Morgan Hamilton,
Mrs. Harry L. Hamlin,
Lyman P. Hammond,
Perey L. Hance,

George F. Handel,
Ferdinand Hansen,
Vivian Harcourt,

Mrs. W. P. Hardenbergh,
William B. Hardin,
James G. Hardy,

J. Montgomery Hare,
Miss Josephine T. Harriot,
Milton W. Harrison,

Dr. Allis F. Hascall,

Mrs. Jacob Hasslacher,
Joshua A. Hatfield,

Dr. Louis Hauswirth,
Henry O. Havemeyer,

T. A. Havemeyer,

J. Woodward Haven,
Carroll Hayes,

Mrs. O. H. Hayes,

Mrs. William Valzah Hayes,
Miss Caroline C. Haynes,
W. de F. Haynes,

David Hays,

Rowland Hazard,

Mrs. R. G. Hazard,

Mrs. W. R. Hearst,
Charles Hecht,

Dr. W. A. Heckard,
John Heitmann,

Jacob Hekma,

David Helier,

(336)

Henry Hellman,

Charles Henderson,

Mrs. E. C. Henderson,
Harmon W. Hendricks,
Miss Margaret Hendrie,
Hon. Joseph P. Hennessy,
Philip W. Henry,

Mrs. A. Barton Hepburn,
Mrs. Frederick T. Hepburn,
Mrs. Henry 8. Herman,
B. F. Hermann,

Frank J. Hermes,

W. UL. Hernstadt,

Royal V. Hersh,

Andrew H. Hershey,
Samuel A. Herzog,
Arthur M. Hess,

Mrs. Cooper Hewitt,
Mrs. Henry B. Heylman,
Henry Hicks,

Mrs. James J. Higginson,
Frederick Trevor Hill,
George Washington Hill,
Mrs. James Norman Hill,
Mrs. Robert Hill,

Miss Anne Hinchman,
Miss Blanche Hirsch,
George E. Hite, Jr.,
Harold K. Hochschild,
Anton G. Hodenpyl,
Mrs. Frederick C. Hodgdon,
Miss Eleanor Hodges,
Mrs. Joseph M. Hodson,
Mrs. Richard March Hoe,
Mrs. Robert Hoe,

Mrs. Robert Hoe, Jr.,
Albert L. Hoffman,
Miss Mary U. Hoffman,
Mrs. Edward Holbrook,
John Swift Holbrook,
Mrs. L. Dean Holden,
Charles W. Holton,

A. Holzman,

Elkan Holzman,

Mrs. Elon Huntington Hooker,

Charles H. Hoole,

Mrs. George B. Hopkins,

Ernest Hopkinson,

Frederick 8. Hoppin,

Horace Mann Elementary
School,

Mrs. Edward M. House,

Nathan C. House,

C. J. Housman,

Thomas H. Howard,

Miss Lucy Howe,

Richard F. Howe,

M. D. Howell,

Mrs. Henry E. Howland,

Miss Anne Hoyt,

John Sherman Hoyt,

Miss V. S. Hoyt,

Lewis McB. Hubbard,

Mrs. Anna Huber,

Conrad Hubert,

Mrs. Thomas Hunt,

Jeremiah Hunter,

Henry E. Huntington,

Henry S. Huntington,

Mrs. R. P. Huntington,

George F. Hurd,

Miss Margaret C. Hurlbut,

(337)

Mrs. William A. Hutcheson,
H. D. Hutchins,

R. G. Hutchins,

Mrs. Ida May Hutchison,
Mrs. Edward F. Hutton,
Frank DeK. Huyler,

A. F, Hyde,

Mrs. Clarence M. Hyde,
Henry St. John Hyde,
Mrs. F. N. Inglehart,
Edwin W. Inslee,
Stanley M. Isaacs,
Adrian Iselin, Jr.,
Arthur Iselin,

C. Oliver Iselin,

Miss Georgine Iselin,
Mrs. John H. Iselin,
Lewis Iselin,

William E. Iselin,

Mrs. William E. Iselin,
Miss Flora E. Isham,
William B. Isham,

A. C. Israel,

Dr. Leopold Jaches,
Frederick W. Jackson,
Samuel K. Jacobs,

John 8. Jacobus,

Mrs. Robert Jaffray,

A. C, James,

Mrs. Arthur Curtiss James,
Mrs. Henry James,

Mrs. Philip James,

Mrs. Walter B. James,
Mrs. Wortham James,

E. C. Jameson,

Miss Martha A. Jamison,
Mrs. Alfred Jaretski,

Alfred W. Jenkins,
William B. Jenkins,
Mrs. Robert I. Jenks,
Mrs. William P. Jenks,
O. G. Jennings,
Walter Jennings,
George S. Jephson,
Mrs. Bradish Johnson,
Gilbert H. Johnson,

J. Herbert Johnston,
Francis C. Jones,

Miss Helen Swift Jones,
Rodney Wilcox Jones,
Louis M. Josephthal,

Mrs. Delancey Kane,

Frank E. Karelsen, Jr.,

Miss Alice Kauser,

Mrs. Charles Kaye,

Mrs. H. F. Kean,

Mrs. Frank Browne Keech,

Henry F. Keil,

William W. Kelchner,

Nicholas Kelley,

Mrs. F. R. Kellogg,

Dr. Howard A. Kelly,

Mrs. H. Van Rensselaer
Kennedy,

John D. Kennedy,

Mrs. John 8. Kennedy,

Mrs. Sinclair Kennedy,

Miss Martha M. Kennerly,

David Keppel,

Chichester C. Kerr,

John B. Kerr,

(338)

J. Keur,

Emil L. Kieger,

S. E. Kilner,

Van Evrie Kilpatrick,
Abel King,

Miss Ethel King,
Mrs. D. P. Kingsford,
Darwin P. Kingsley,
Morris Kinney,

Dr. William B. Kirkham,
Mrs. Gustav E. Kissel,

Mrs. Charles E. Knoblauch,
Roland F. Knoedler,
Frederick William Kobbe,
Mrs. 8. H. Kohn,
Alexander Konta,

Dr. Samuel J. Kopetsky,
Mrs. Max Kops,

William Korn,

Arthur Korth,

Mrs. Claude Kress,
Samuel H. Kress,
Richard G. Krueger,
George L. Kumpf,

Mrs. Henry R. Kunhardt,
Dr. George F. Kunz,

Arthur F. Lafrentz,

s. James lL. Laidlaw,

. Walter Laidlaw,

rs. Gerard B. Lambert,
. Samuel W. Lambert,
rs. J. H. Lancashire,
Dr. Samuel H. Lanchner,
Frank Landi,

Francis G. Landon,

Mrs. Edward V. Z. Lane,
Mrs. Carl Lang,
Mrs. Woodbury G. Langdon,

. Valeria Langeloth,

John Burling Lawrence,

Miss Margaret Lawrence,

Mrs. Richard W. Lawrence,

Henry Goddard Leach,

Mrs. George Leary,

Charles W. Leavitt,

Lederle Antitoxin
Laboratories

Prof. Frederic 8. Lee,

Dr. Marguerite T. Lee,

R. C. Leffingwell,

George Legg,

James M. Lehmaier,

S. M. Lehman,

Emil Leitner,

Miss Maud Aguilar

Dr. L. M. Lesser,

A. Edward Lester,

William C. Lester

George Levi,

B. E. Levy,

Louis Samter Levy,

Mrs. Louis 8. Levy,

Leland,

(339)

Willy Levy,

C. Lewis,

Adolph Lewisohn,

Mrs. Allan Lexow,

Alfred F. Lichtenstein,

Dr. Charles C. Lieb,

E. K. Lincoln,

Mrs. Frederick W. Lincoln,

Arthur H. Lippincott,
Frederick J. Lisman,
Lucius N. Littauer,

Frank L. Liveright,

Miss Anna P. Livingston,
Henry S. Livingston,

Mrs. Francis G. Lloyd,
Wilton Lioyd-Smith,

Mrs. William C. Lobenstine,
. A. H. Lockett,

Mrs. Frederick R. Lockwood,
Mrs. Luke Vincent Lockwood,
Mrs, William A. Lockwood,
Homer L. Loomis,

Edward C. Lord,

Lord & Burnham Co.,

P. Lorillard, Jr.,

Mrs. A. A. Low,

Ethelbert I. Low,

Mrs. Seth Low,

Solomon Lowenstein,

Mrs. Clarence M. Lowes,
Albert E. Lownes,

C. G. Lueder,

E. L. Lueder,

Prof. Graham Lusk,

John C. Lyeth,

J. M. Richardson Lyeth,
Miss Grace G. Lyman,
Mrs. John H. Lynch,
Milton A, Maas,

James B. Mabon,

John F. MacEnulty,
Clarence H. Mackay,
Kenneth K. Mackenzie,
Mrs. Charles F. Machean,

Mrs. John 8. Maeder,
F. Robert Mager,

Mrs. J. H. Maghee,

Miss Helaine Magnus,
Edward Mallinckrodt, Jr.
Mrs. Robert Mallory, Jr.
L. William Malone,

W. A. Manda,

Dr. Morris Manges,
Howard Mansfield,

Mrs. H. Edward Manville,
Miss Delia W. Marble,
John Markle,

Mrs. Francis H. Markoe,
Alfred E. Marling,

Otto Maron,

Mrs. Allan Marquand,
Mrs. Henry Marquand,
John B. Marsh,

Miss Emma L. Martin,
Frank Gilbert Martin,
Mrs. Horace H. Martin,
R. W. Martin,

Walton Martin,

Walter R. Marvin,
Charles N. Mason,

(340)

William J. Matheson,

Dr. D. H. MeAipin,

Mrs. D. H. McAlpin,
George MeAneny,

Dr. George C. McBride,
W. Peck McCaffray,
George V. A. McCloskey,
Prof. Nelson G. McCrea,
Henry Forbes McCreery,
Miss Alice B. McCutcheon,
Mrs. Alfred McEwen,
Paul McEwen,

Mrs. John R. McGinley,
Mrs. Robert T. McGusty,
Edward A. McIlhenny,
Tompkins Mellvaine,

Mrs. Charles W. McKelvey,

Edward F. McManus,
Francis W. McMillan,
William MeNair,

H. E. Meeker,

S. A. Megeath,

Mrs. T. M. R. Meikelham,
Morton H. Meinhard,
Mrs. 8. Stanwood Mencken,
Mrs. William R. Mercer,
Miss Ella J. Merrifield,
John L. Merrill,

I. J. Merritt,

Herman A. Metz,

David Metzger,

Arthur 8S. Meyer,
Charles G. Meyer,
Eugene Meyer, Jr.
Fredrik Fischer Meyer,
Mrs. Albert G. Milbank,
Jeremiah Milbank,

John G. ga

W. W. Mill

Mrs. ee v. G. Millhiser,
M. F. Millikan,

Mrs. Gerrish Milliken,
Dr. Adelaide Mills,
Henry E. Mills,

Grafton W. Minot,
Alexander S. Mitchell,
Mrs. Clarence B. Mitchell,
Mrs. John Murray Mitchell,
R. Milton Mitchill, Jr.
Walter Mitschke,

Mrs. John H. Mohlman,
George A. Molleson,
John Monks,

H. de la Montagne, Jr.
Carleton Montgomery,
Mrs. H. E. Montgomery,
Robert H. Montgomery,
Barrington Moore,
Benjamin Moore,
Clement Moore,

J. C. Moore,

Mrs. Kenneth W. Moore,
Mrs. Paul Moore,
William 8. Moore,
Victor Morawetz,

B. Mordecai,

Miss Anne Morgan,
Miss C. L. Morgan,

(341)

E. D. Morgan,

Wm. Fellowes Morgan,

Mrs. Henry Morgenthau,

J. C. Morgenthau,

Mrs. Dave Hennen Morris,

Dr. Robert T. Morris,

Mrs. Charles King Morrison,
Dwight W. Morrow,

Mrs. John B. Mott,

Edwin H. Mulford,

John P. Munn,

Frank J. Murphy,

G M. P. Murphy,

Mrs. John F. Murray,

Fred A. Muschenheim,

George A. Mussmann,

Sol Mutterperl,

Mme. Elie Nadelman,

Harold Nathan,

National Association, Boards
of Pharmacy,

Mrs. Elsie M. B. Naumberg,

Mrs. William J. Neal,

A. G. Nesbitt,

Mrs. Russell H. Nevins,

Miss Elizabeth T. Nicholas,
George D. Nicholas,

Mrs. Acosta Nichols,
William B. Nichols,

Mrs. William G. Nichols,
William H. Nichols,

Mrs. Hoffman Nickerson,
Mrs. Benjamin Nicoll,
William Nilsson,

(342)

Dr. Charles Norris,
Miss Fanny Norris,
George Notman,
Jansen Noyes,

L. W. Nuttall,

Miss Dorothy Oak,
Morgan J. O’Brien,
Mrs. Adolph Obrig,
Adolph 8. Ochs,
John Offerman,
Mrs. Clinton Ogilvie,
Mrs. Ponsonby Ogle,
P M. Ohmeis,

E. E. Olcott,

Miss Mary Olcott,

Robert Olyphant,

John B. O’Reilly,

Ars. Maleolm H. Ormsbee,
William C. Orr,

Mrs. Charles E. Orvis,
Prof. Henry F. Osborn,
Hiram Osborn,

Mrs. William Church Osborn,
Charles Otis,

Mrs. George L. Otis,
Charles K. Ovington,

Miss Elizabeth H. Packard,
Mrs. Eugene H. Paddock,
Mrs. Jean Aitken Paddock,

Tenaz Panzer,

Mrs. John W. Paris,
Henry Parish,

Mrs. F. A. Park,

Mrs. Hobart J. Park,
Junius Parker,

Mrs. Willard Parker, Jr.
Winthrop Parker,

Charles W. Parsons,

Mrs. Edgerton Parsons,
Mrs. Joseph Parsons,

Mrs. J. Graham Parsons,
Miss Katherine de B. Parsons,
Miss Mary Parsons,
Schuyler L. Parsons,

W. U. Parsons,

Mrs. Joseph Paterno,
Rufus L. Patterson,

T. H. Hoge Patterson,
Mrs. Foster Paul,

J. R. Paull,

Adolf J. Pavenstedt,

Mrs. Charles 8. Payson,
Mrs. Horace E. Payson,
Mrs. Charles A. Peacock,
E. Pennington Pearson,
Mrs. Frederick Pearson,
Charles E. Peck,

William Halsey Peck,
Mrs. Wheeler H. Peckham,
Dr. James Pedersen,

Mrs. Sarah G. T. Pell,

B. Henry Pelzer,

Miss Isabelle Pendleton,
J. C. Penney Foundation,
Mrs. Paul Geddes Pennoyer,
Comtesse de Périgny,
George W. Perkins,

Miss Hattie W. Perkins,
Mrs. F. A. C. Perrine,
Mrs. Charles G. Peters,

W. R. Peters,

Walter Peterson,

Carl Schurz Petrasch,
Mrs. William C. Peyton,
Arthur Pforzheimer,
Carl H. Pforzheimer,
Walter Pforzheimer,
Mrs. Sheffield Phelps,
Henry Phipps,

W. Paul Pickhardt,
Henry Clay Pierce,
Winslow 8. Pierce,

J. Fred Pierson,

John T. Pirie,

Mrs. J. O. H. Pitney,
Mrs. Charles Howard Platt,
Mrs. Frank H. Platt,
John Platt,

Edward Plaut,

Alfred F. Poggenburg,
Rudolph Pokorny,

Miss R. A. Polhemus,
Frank L. Polk,

Mrs. Theodore L. Pomeroy,
Charles Lane Poor,

Mrs. James ie Poor,
James E. Pop

Mrs. ae © Popper,
Alexander J. Porter,
Mrs. Frank B. Porter, Jr.
H. Hobart Porter,

Louis H. Porter,

Mrs. William H. Porter,
Abram 8S. Post

Miss Blanche Potter,
Mrs. Frank H. Potter,
Mrs. Halle 8. Potter

(343)

Dr. Lillian Delger Powers,
John H. Powrie,

Rev. Dr. William Prall,
Mrs. C. H. Pratt,

Mrs. Herbert Lee Pratt,
John Pratt,

Mrs. John T. Pratt,

Mrs. Frank Presbrey,
Edgar 8. Pretzfeld,

Mrs. BE. F. Price,

Julius Prince,

H. B. Prindle,

R. L. Pritchard,

Mrs. T. P. Prout,

Mrs. Kate Davis Pulitzer,
Miss Mary Stuart Pullman,
Miss Eva C. Putney,
Robert Pyle,

Perey R. Pyne,

Percy R. Pyne, Jr.

L. M. Rabinowitz,

Mrs. J. A. Rainier,
Samuel Raisler,

Mrs. Francis F. Randolph,
Stanley Ranger,

William T. Rasmus,
Eugene A. Rau,

G. B. Raymond,

H. E. Raymond,

Mrs. Henry R. Rea,
Newbury Frost Read,

Mrs. William A. Read,
Robert C. Ream,

Mrs. Louis J. Reckford,
Miss Emily Redmond,
Henry H. Reed,

Mrs. Augusta Bliss Reese,

Mrs. Whitelaw Reid,

E. Allan Reinhardt,
Franklin Remington,
William Remsen,
William Rennult,
Samuel W. Reyburn,
Mrs. H. Newell Reynolds,
Thomas A. Reynolds,
Miss N. Rhoades,

Miss Elvine Richard,
Harold C. Richard,
Oscar L. Richard,

Miss Edith G. Richards,
Ellis G. Richards,

E. O. Richards,

Mrs. Albert 8S. Ridley,
Bernard Riegel,

Dr. Abraham Rieger,
Mrs. Samuel Riker, Jr.
Mrs. J. W. Riley,

Dr. A. I. Ringer,

F. Bayard Rives,

G. Barclay Rives,

Dr. William C. Rives,
Miss Emeline Roach,
Mrs. Charles H. Roberts,
Frederick Young Robertson,
Louis J. Robertson,

A. G. Robinson,

Mrs. Douglas Robinson,

Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

Perey A. Rockefeller,

F. L. Rodewald,

Edward H. Roehrs,

John Roger,

Hubert E. Rogers,

Mrs. James Gamble Rogers,

(344)
Henry 8. Rokenbaugh,
A. J. Rolle,
Nicholas Roosevelt,
W. Emlen Roosevelt,
Mrs. W. Emlen Roosevelt,
Elihu Root
Miss Rosalie Rosenberg,
Mrs. Henry C. Ross,
Miss Sara Rossmoore,
Albert Rothbart,
Peter W. Rouss,

William Edwin Rudge,
J. Louis A. Ruhl,
Justus Ruperti,

Jacob Ruppert,

Miss M. L. Russell,
John Barry Ryan,
William J. Ryan,
Arthur Ryle,

Miss Julia Ryle,

Harry Sachs,

Samuel Sachs,

Reuben Sadowsky,
Mrs. T. Shaw Safe,
Mrs. Henry W. Sage,
Mrs. Walter J. Salmon,
Charles E. Sampson,
Mrs. Ralph Samuel,
Mitchell Samuels,

H. T. Sands,

H. Sanhagen,

F, A. Sarg,

Miss Georgiana W. Sargent,
Herbert L. Satterlee,
Mrs. Herbert L. Satterlee,

(345)

Mrs. Thomas E. Satterthwaite, Hewlett Scudder,

Mrs. Theodore Sattler,
Goddard Weld Saunders,
William M. Savin,
Oliver H. Sawyer,
Hermann Schaaf,
Frederick Miller Schall,
Jacob Schapiro,

John Scheepers,

Anton Schefer,

O. Boto Schellberg,
Miss Florence L. Schepp,
Dr. William J. Schieffelin,
Charles A. Schieren,
Gustave H. Schiff,

Max Schling, Inc.

Miss Jane E. Schmelzel,
Emil Sehmitz,

D. Schnakenberg,

Harry Schneider,
Henrich Sehniewind, Jr.
Carl Schoen,

W. D. Scholle,

William Schongalla,
Mrs. Anthony Schulte,
Richard Schuster,

Mrs. C. Albert Schwab,
C. M. Schwab,

Miss Emily Schwab,
Raymond J. Schweizer,
Miss Marion Scofield,
Mrs. Frank Hall Scott,
Miss Grace Scoville,
Herbert Scoville,

Robert Scoville,

Mrs. Arthur H. Scribner,
Edward M. Scudder,

Mrs. Samuel Seabury,
Mrs. Joseph H. Seaman,
Alonzo B. See,

Edwin Sefton,

Prof. Edwin R. A. Seligman,
Mrs. Isaae N. Seligman,
Jefferson Seligman,

Mrs. Norrie Sellar,

Mrs. George H. Semken,
Mrs. Charles H. Senff,
Frederick W. Senff,
Alfred Seton,

Frank G. Shattuck,

Mrs. Quincey A. Shaw,
Finley J. Shepard,

Miss Corinne A. Sherman,

Mrs. Ellen Shipman,
George W. Short,

Hiram W. Sibley,

Mrs. Rega Rolain’
Benjamin Sie

Mrs. J. A a

Samuel M. Siegman,

Simon Siegman,

Benjamin F, Simmons,
Charles H. Simmons,
Alfred L. Simon,

Robert E. Simon,

Mrs. Roswell Skeel, Jr.
Mrs. Alburn E. Skinner,
Francis Louis Slade,

Mrs. O. H. Slade,

Mrs. William A. Slater,
Mrs. HE. Frederick Slauson,

Benson B. Sloan,

Samuel Sloan,

Thomas W. Slocum,
Thomas Smidt,

Daniel Smiley,

C. Harold Smith,

Mrs. Charles Herbert Smith,
Charles R. Smith

Mrs. Charles Stewart Smith,
Daniel Cranford Smith,
Miss Fanny A. Smith,
James B. Smith,

Mrs. Milton Smith, Jr.
Mrs. R. Penn Smith, Jr.
Mrs. John W. Smyth,
Frederick Snare,
Frederick A. Soldwedel,
Phineas Sondheim,

Mrs. William M. Spackman,
Mrs. H. B. Spalding,

Mrs. Edward W. Sparrow,
Mrs. Joseph McK. Speer,
Mrs. John E. Speller,

Mrs. Gino C. Speranza,
Edgar Speyer,

Mrs. B. G. Spiegelberg,
Charles Edward Spratt,
Mrs. William F.. Stafford,
A. T. Stanley,

Howard W. Starr,

E. Vail Stebbins,

Mrs. J. Rich Steers,

Mrs. Mary P. Eno Steffanson,
Dr. Charles Steffens,

Louis Steinam,

William H. Steinkamp,
Fred T. Steinway,

(346)

William R. Steinway,
Olin J. Stephens,
Roderick Stephens,
Benjamin Stern,
Sereno Stetson,

Mrs. Edward R. Stettinius,
Mrs. Byam K. Stevens,
Frederic W. Stevens,
Mrs. Weld M. Stevens,
Lispenard Stewart,
Mrs. George J. Stier,

Ralph George Stoddard,
Charles H. Stoll,
Alfred W. Stone,
Charles A. Stone,
Robert G. Stone,

Mrs. Charles H. Stout,
Mrs. M. Stransky,
Albert T. Strauch,

H. Grant Straus,

Mrs. Nathan Straus, Jr.
Roger W. Straus,
Albert Strauss,

Mrs. Daisy Strauss,
Frederick Strauss,
Martin Strauss,

Samuel Strauss,
William H. Strawn,
Miss Florence E. Strickland,
Dr. George T. Strodl,
Mrs. Gustaf Stromberg,
Benjamin Strong,
John R. Strong,

Nat. C. Strong,

Richard A. Strong,

Mrs. Pauline . Stroock,
Francis Lee Stuart,
Miss Susan M. Sturges,
Frank K. Sturgis,
Henry S. Sturgis,

Miss Margaret L. Suckley,
Mrs. James Sullivan
Edwin 8. 8. Sunderland,
Frank M. Swacker,
Mrs. Edward H. Swan,
Mrs. J. Andrews Swan,
Dr. F. J. Swanson,
Mrs. 8. A. Swenson,
Maurice Switzer,
Gerard Swope,

Walter H. Sykes, Jr.
Miss Mary Taber,
Henry W. Taft,

Moses Tanenbaum,
Edwin Tatham,
Charles G. Taylor,
Frederick C. Taylor,
Moses Taylor,

W. A. Taylor

Miss Gaanide M. Telke,
S. Frederick Telleen,
Mrs. John T. Terry,
Mrs. Thomas Thacher,
Mrs. T. D. Thacher,
Mrs. Bayard Thayer,
H. B. Thayer

E. Thiele,

Mrs. H. M. Thomas,
Mrs. Hector W. Thomas,

(347)

Mrs. Howard L. Thomas,
Percival Thomas,
Dr. William 8. Thomas,
L. S. Thompson,
Mrs. R. H. Thompson,
Samuel A. ae
William B. Thom
Mrs. William at ch ae
John C, Thorn,

rs. Edwin Thorne,
Mrs. Landon K. Thorne,
Samuel Thorne,
Sherman Thursby,
Louis C. Tiffany,
Mrs. Henry M. Tilford,
Dr. Walter Timme,
R. H. Timmermann,
James Timpson,
Mrs. Edward R. Tinker,
Alexander Tison, Jr.
Mrs. Norman E. Titus,
Mrs. Margaret T. Tjader,
Edward R. Tolfree,
George H. Townsend,
Mrs. George H. Townsend,
W. C. Trageser,
Mrs. John B. Trevor,
John Trounstine,
E. Kellogg Trowbridge,
Carll Tucker,
Mrs. Carll Tucker,
Paul Tuckermann,
George E. Turnure,
Lawrence Turnure,
Harry F. Turtle,
Mrs, Mary A. Tuttle,
Mrs. Charles H. Tweed,

(348)

Harrison Tweed

Mrs. Walter M. Underhill,
Samuel Ungerleider,

Miss Martha C. Vail,

Mrs. Henry C. Valentine,
Augustus Van Cortlandt,
William H. Vanderbilt,
Francis 8. van der Veer,
Barend van Gerbig,

Miss Anne H. Van Ingen,
Miss Louise Van Ingen,

Dr. Philip Van Ingen,

John Vanneck,

Mrs. Warner M. Van Norden,
Mrs. E. van Raalte,

George Van ae
Irving Van Zandt,

Mrs. Wilbur Linwood Varian,
Mrs. James M. Varnum,
Mrs. A. C. Veatch,

Ludwig Vogelstein,

Mrs. Owen M. Voight,

Dr. Antonie P. Voislawsky,
William von Phul

Mrs. Anna M. von Zedlitz,
Frederick K. Vreeland,
Montgomery Waddell,

Mrs. W. Austin Wadsworth,
Dr. A. F. Wahi,

Anton E. Walbridge,
Justus I. Wakelee,

Arthur T. Walker,

Mrs. Joseph Walker, Jr.
Miss Miriam Dwight Walker,
Robert 8. Walker,
Stuart Walker,
Mrs. W. K. Wallbridge,
Alfred Wallerstein,
Leo Wallerstein,
Dr. Max Wallerstein,
Mrs. Frederick A. Wallis,
Thomas J. Walsh,
William I. Walter,
James P, Warburg,
Dr. Francis R. Ward,
Mrs. Randolph S. Warner,
Mrs. John I. Waterbury,
C. W. Watson,
Harry Wearne,
Mrs. E, H. Weatherbee,
Mrs. V. Webb,
Mrs. W. Seward Webb,
Jules Weber,
Mrs. Orlando F. Weber,
Mrs. Hamilton Fisher Webster,
Mrs. Alden H. Weed,
Miss Alice D. Weekes,
Dr. Eugene Wehmeyer,
George A. Weigel,
S. H. Weil,
Mrs. Walter L. Weil,
Mrs. Charles Weiss,

J. Weiss,
Mrs. Samuel W. Weiss,
Mrs. Oliver J. Wells,
William Y. Wemple,
Sanders A. Wertheim,
Miss Edith Wetmore,
Mrs. Frederick S. Wheeler,

Mrs. George C. Wheeler,
Mrs. William E. Wheelock,
Miss Amelia E. White,
Miss Caroline White,

Mrs. E. Lawrence White,
Harold T. White,

Mrs. William T. White,
Miss Lucile Whitehurst,

Mrs. Howard F. Whitney,
Miss Margaret 8. Whitney,
Mrs. Arnold Whitridge,
Howard Whittemore,

F. B. Wiborg,

H. Wickenhauser,

Mrs. D. O. Wickham,

Miss Alice Wilson Wilcox,
Walter R. Wilder,

Ernest J. Wile,

Dr. Ira 8. Wile,

C. Robert Wilhelm,

J. Yale Wilkins,

Mrs. Matthew Astor Wilks,
Elmore A. Willets,

J, Macy Willets,

Mrs. Charles B. Williams,
Mrs. Clark Williams,

Mrs. Perey H. Williams,
Richard H. Williams,
William H. Williams,

Mrs. G. DeWitt Williamson,
W. P. Willis,

James R. Williston,

Mrs. L. K. Wilmerding,
Mrs. A. Chalmers Wilson,

(349)

Mrs. Ernest H. Wilson,
Dr. Margaret B. Wilson,
Orme Wilson, Jr.

Charles A. Wimpfheimer,
Jesse Winburn,

Mrs. Keyes Winter,
Bronson Winthrop,
Grenville L. Winthrop,
John C. Wister,

Mrs. Frank 8. Witherbee,
Joseph Wittman,

Dr. William H. Woglom,
Henry F. Wolff,

Lewis S. Wolff,

M. Wolff,

Mrs. T. Wolfson,

Ernest Wolwitz,

Mrs. Willis D. Wood,
Miss Martha BE. Woodbury,
Mrs. William H. Woodin,
Chauncey C. Woodworth,
George C. Woolf,

Park M. Woolley,

Mrs. I. Maurice Wormeer,
Martin Wortmann,

Miss Julia Wray,
Richardson Wright,
Gustave A. Wuefel,

Dr. Peter B. Wyckoff,
Mrs. Irene 8. Wyle,

Miss Annette Young,

Mrs. A. Murray Young,
Owen D. Young,

Mrs. Cornelius A. Zabriskie,
George A. Zabriskie,
Charles H. Zehnder,
Albert G. Zimmerman,

August Zinsser,

Mrs.

Charles Zoller,

(350)

Mrs.
Frida Zinsser,

Osear F. Zollikoffer,

Christian F. Zoylner,
Henry Zuckerman,

MEMBERS OF THE ADVISORY COUNCIL
Mrs. ArtHur H. Scrisner, Chairman
Mrs. Samuet Sioan, Secretary

Mrs. Robert Bacon, Mrs.
Miss Elizabeth Billings, Mrs
Mrs. Edward C. Bodman, Mrs
Mrs. N. L. Britton, Mrs
Mrs. Andrew Carnegie, Mrs
Mrs. Frederick A. Constable, Mrs.
Mrs. Carl A. de Gersdorff, Mrs
Mrs. Charles D. Dickey, Mrs
Mrs. John W. Draper, Mrs
Miss Elizabeth S$. Hamilton, Mrs
Mrs. A. Barton Hepburn, Mrs
Mrs. Robert C. Hill, Mrs
Mrs. Frederick C. Hodgdon, Mrs
Mrs. Walter Jennings, Mrs
Mrs. Bradish Johnson, Mrs
Mrs. Delancey Kane, Mrs
Mrs. Gustav E. Kissel, Mrs
Mrs. William A. Lockwood, Mrs

Honorary MEMBER OF THE

A. A. Low,

. David Ives Mackie,
. Pierre Mali,

. Henry Marquand,
. John R. McGinley,

Roswell Miller,

. Wheeler H. Peckham,
. George W. Perkins,
. Harold I. Pratt,

. Wm. Kelly Prentice,
. dames Roosevelt,

. Charles H. Stout,

. Theron G. Strong,

. Henry O. Taylor,

. John T. Terry,

. Harold M. Turner,

. Louise Beebe Wilder,
. William H. Woodin.

Apvisory CouNncIu

Mrs. E. Henry Harriman.

VOL. 13 No. 50

BULLETIN

OF

THE NEW YORK

BOTANICAL GARDEN

ISSUED MAY 31, 1929

CONTENTS

No. 50. May 31, 1929

REPORT OF THE SECRETARY AND DiRECTOR-IN-CHIEF FOR

THE YEAR 1928 ©1000... eee 351
Report of the Head Curator of the Museums and

Herbarium .......00...00000..00 0000 eee 355
Report of the Head Gardener ....................... 861
Report of the Honorary Curator of Iris and Narcissus

Collections, 1928 ............00.000. 000000000200. 364
Report of the Director of the Laboratories for the

Neeab 1028 Se. 2 tease, oe a Aer tera ce 368
Report of the Plant Pathologist ..................... 378
Report of the Supervisor of Public Education ......... 376
Report of the Bibliographer ........................ 379
Report of the Librarian ............................ 380
Report of the Paleobotanist .....................00.. 382

Report of the Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds 385
Report of the Honorary Curator of the Economic

Collections 20.0.0... .00 000 ne 388
Report of the Honorary Curator of Mosses ............ 389
Report of the Honorary Custodian of the Local

Herbarium: 2 cacti eeu ee eons oe eee ees 391

REPORT OF THE CHAIRMAN OF THE SCIENTIFIC Drrectors ... 392
REPORT OF THE TREASURER ............00. 000.000. 00 e cues 394
CERTIFICATE OF AUDITORS ..............0 0.0.00 e eee eee 395

REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON Patrons, FELLOWS, AND
MEMUERS FoR THE YEAR 1928 ..........0.......... 400

BULLETIN

The New York Botanical Garden

Vol. 13 No. 50

REPORT OF THE SECRETARY AND DIRECTOR-
IN-CHIEF FOR THE YEAR 1928
(Accepted and ordered printed January 14, 1929)

TO THE BOARD OF MANAGERS OF THE NEW YORK BOTANICAL
GARDEN.

Gentlemen: Progress has been made during the past year
in path-construction, grading, and drainage; in the expan-
sion of the plantations; in repairs to buildings; in the in-
‘crease of the collections of plants, books, lantern-slides, and
specimens; in improved and increased floral displays; in
the more complete organization of public education and the
distribution of information; and in research and publica-
tion by members of the staff and by students.

Path-construction, with accompanying necessary grading
and drainage, was prosecuted in the undeveloped part of
the grounds between the southern end of the Hemlock
Grove and Pelham Avenue; about 3,000 lineal feet of Tel-
ford path, ten feet wide, surfaced with coal ashes, were
completed; railings were obtained for parts of these paths
and are being set up during the winter; this development
will operate to restrict trampling and diminish danger of
damage to these fine natural woodlands. It is very desir-
able that path-building and railing be continued the next
season in several parts of the reservation.

Work in earth-filling of the former lake at the long
valley in the southeastern part of the grounds, suggested
for a Rhododendron Glade, made necessary by the blockage
of a drainage culvert, has been continued and approximates
completion; through a Park Departinent contract, awarded

51)

(352)

by Commissioner Hennessy, a sewer-connection was built
during the summer at the southern end of this valley,
providing a new drainage level about eight feet higher than
the old one, the least that could be had in connecting with
the only sewer available in Bronx Park East; it will now
be possible to determine surface grades for this valley, and
a plan for its planting and paths. A large amount of top-
soil will ultimately be required, as well as much leaf-mould
and some fertilizers; we have collected and stacked leaves
this autumn in larger quantities than ever before, looking
ahead to this need. Large expenditure for plants will also
be necessary.

All existing plantations have been maintained, modified
by additions and substitutions, and floral displays have been
largely increased. A fourth model garden was built and
planted, based on a plan obtained in competition through
income of the H. H. Memorial Fund. Considerable expan-
sion of the rock garden collection was effected. Through
critical pathological attention, by repeated spraying, the
rose garden was improved, and similar work on the cherry
collection will, it is expected, increase its flowering; great
success was had with water-lilies, both tender and hardy;
the Dahlia display was good, but we shared in the general
experience of this part of the country in having a relatively
poor season for Dahlias; the Gladiolus collections were
greatly increased and flowered profusely; the tulip displays,
through continued codperation of the Dutch Bulb-Growers’
Association, maintained their accustomed elegance; co-
éperation with the American Iris Society continued the fine
displays of irises; both hardy and tender chrysanthemums
provided attractive autumn displays; plantations of daffo-
dils were considerably extended, and through funds mostly
obtained through subscriptions, about 88,500 bulbs of cro-
cuses, squills, and Chionodoxa were purchased, and planted
on Pinetum hillsides near the southeastern end of Con-
servatory Range No. 1

Some preliminary work in preparing land for a new
herbaceous flower-garden at the eastern end of Conserva-

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tory Range No. 1, and in planting there, was accomplished
during the autumn. The whole Pinetum was checked up
and largely recatalogued and relabeled, showing about 250
kinds of coniferous trees and shrubs in this collection, and
also indicating desiderata for its more complete installation.

Police protection has not been increased; the rapid build-
ing up of the area east of Bronx Park, with greatly in-
creased population, and continuously more and more usage
of the reservation from this direction and others, is rapidly
making more surveillance necessary to ensure the safety
of plantations, buildings, and natural features. It is already
desirable that the number of keepers and of night watch-
men employed should be considerably enlarged, as police
supervision cannot be depended upon.

Public education and information were reorganized and
expanded through the appointment at the middle of the
year of a Supervisor of Public Education, and one assist-
ant was later provided for him, and additions were made to
appropriations for lectures and educational materials. His
duties were assigned to include arrangements for public
lectures at the Garden and lectures elsewhere to garden
clubs, schools, and other organizations; the care and
increase of the collection of lantern-slides; oversight of
docentry and photography; participation in publicity, which
has been widely expanded, and in giving out information
to visitors and by letters.

To provide for more complete development of public edu-
cation, additional assistants are needed, especially for
docentry, which is as yet being given by employees whose
duties are primarily along other lines of usefulness and for
which their full time is required.

Museum and herbarium collections have been improved
by study and classification, and additions of many desirable
specimens have been made, principally by exchanges of
duplicates with other institutions. Through purchases and
exchanges the library has been increased by about 1,400
bound volumes and very many pamphlets; the number of
bound volumes is now about 38,500; the card catalogue has

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been posted nearly up to date. All the serial publications
have been continued.

The maintenance and development of the Garden, have
been effected in close codperation with the Commissioner
of Parks, Borough of The Bronx, and his staff; the city
appropriation for maintenance was increased and recom-
mendations of the Commissioner for improvements and
developments have been transmitted by him to the Board
of Estimate and Apportionment.

The reports of members of the staff, hereto appended,
present detailed accounts of operations, administrative, edu-
cational, financial, and scientific.

N. L. BRITTON,
Secretary and Director-in-Chief.

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REPORT OF THE HEAD CURATOR OF THE
MUSEUMS AND HERBARIUM

Dr. N. L. BRITTON, DIRECTOR-IN-CHIEF.

Sir: I submit herewith my report as Head Curator of the
Museums and Herbarium for the calendar year 1928:

The collections and exhibits under my supervision were
conserved by the same methods and developed through the
same channels as in preceding years.

Through the agencies of

Gifts and purchases..............00e eee 10,951
ExchangeS ..........ccc cece cceaceeees 11,412
Exploration ..........cc cence eceeeees 11,476

A total 0f:65456225406018 222 3 254e es 33,839

specimens was added to the resources of the Garden.

Collections totaling 5,635 duplicate specimens were sent
to other institutions in exchange for other specimens.

The specimens accessioned came from a wide geographic
range. Small but valuable series were received from the
Old World, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia being rep-
resented. The New World contributed the great bulk of
the additions, especially those regions whose floras and
floristics the Garden is actively engaged in interpreting.
Consequently, the former plant representations of several
states of the United States, Mexico, Central America, West
Indies, and northern South America were strongly
augmented.

MUSEUMS

The six units comprising the public museums—the fossil-
plant museum, the economic museum, the synoptic collec-
tion, microscope exhibit, plant-picture collection, and local-
flora exhibit of the systematic museum—were improved by
specimens interpolated and renovated. The additions made
to the economic collections were mostly derived from explo-

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ration and from economic plants grown in the garden
plantations.

The fossil-plant museum was under the supervision of
Dr. Arthur Hollick, Paleobotanist. (For details see his
report.)

The development of the economic museum was under the
supervision of Dr. H. H. Rusby, Honorary Curator of the
Economic Collections. (For details see his report.)

HERBARIA

Specimens incorporated in the permanent herbaria were
derived from current accessions and from accumulation
of stored materials received in former year

A total of 15,860 herbarium sheets, carrying about 19,000
specimens, were added to the permanent collections. Most
of the material mounted came from continental North
America, the West Indies, and northern South America.

A limited number of specimens received for the Columbia
University herbarium were mounted and incorporated in
that collection.

Two collections of a special character were:

I. The moss herbarium, which was under the supervision
of Mrs. N. L. Britton, Honorary Curator of Mosses. (For
details see her report

ITI. The local flora herbarium, which was under the super-
vision of Dr. H. M. Denslow, Honorary Curator of the Local
Flora Yerbarium. (For details see his report.)

INVESTIGATION AND COOPERATION

Dr. P. A. Rydberg, Curator, was in charge of the flower-
ing-plant herbarium. Besides the usual routine in sorting
and distributing herbarium specimens, determining plant-
material, and answering inquiries, he began to verify and
revise the determinations in the herbarium material of the
Rocky Mountains, the Great Plains, and prairies west of
the Mississippi River. His taxonomic work during the year
has been divided between two families: Fabaceae and Por-

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tulacaceae. In the former, he has revised the manuscript
of Astragalus and related genera and enough for one part
of the North American Flora is in the hands of the printers.
The manuscript of another part and a half is ready, and the
remaining half, comprising the genus Oxytropis, is well
under way. In connection with this work he has also pub-
lished preliminary papers in the Bulletin of the Torrey
Botanical Club, under the title: “Notes on Fabaceae—X &
—XI1” treating the genus Atelophragma. Two more papers
are in the hands of the editor. Two illustrated papers on
the same family, prepared in 1927, entitled “Genera of
North American Fabaceae—III & IV—Psoraleae” appeared
in the early part of the year in The American Journal of
Botany, with 5 plates, illustrating 20 genera. Number V
of the same series, the first of three papers with the sub-
title “Astragalus and Related Genera,” is going through the
press. The monographing of the family Portulacaceae
was undertaken in conjunction with Mr. Percy Wilson, who
has been preparing the manuscript for the genera Portu-
laca, Talinum, and Talinopsis. The rest of the family is
treated by Dr. Rydberg and this part is about half ready.
Dr. H. A. Gleason, Curator, devoted, his main energies to
the care and development of our collections from northern
South America. Our most important accessions during the
period have been several hundred plants from Venezuela,
over five hundred from Mount Roraima, and over six thou-
sand from Colombia, all of which have been prepared for
the herbarium and distributed under his supervision, while
large numbers of these and of earlier collections have been
identified by him personally. His chief scientific activities
while in residence have been the study and revision of our
northern South American material of the genera Maripa
and Hypericum, of certain groups in the Melastomataceae,
and of the Tate collection from Mount Roraima. This work
has included the detection and description of numerous
hitherto undescribed species, which have either been pub-
lished or are awaiting publication at the present time. Dr.
Gleason spent about six months in Europe, where he de-

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voted the time to the preparation of manuscript for the
proposed Flora of British Guiana, undertaken by the Gar-
den in codperation with the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew.
During this time abroad the manuscript for the Monocotyle-
dons was completed, with the exception of four families
assigned to specialists and one upon which work was post-
poned. In addition to his regular duties he delivered two of
our public lectures and assisted several times with the in-
struction of visiting classes of high-school students.

Dr. Fred J. Seaver, Curator, continued in charge of the
routine work connected with the mycological collections. A
part of his studies on the Discomycetes has been published
in the form of an illustrated manual consisting of 284
pages of text and 46 plates, two of which are in color. The
text of this work will later be incorporated in North Ameri-
can Flora. He is continuing his research work on other
groups of the Discomycetes, which will be treated in the
same manner. He also continued to edit Mycologia, the
volume for the year comprising 364 pages of text, including
a number of research papers contributed by the editor. In
connection with insect control, the new spray apparatus
was put into action during the winter and an especial effort
made to control, by dormant spray, the scale insects on
various trees and shrubs, including the Japanese cherries.
This resulted in about a 909 control. An effort was also
made to supplement artificial control by the introduction of
the natural enemy of the scale. On the first of May all
insect control work was turned over to the newly appointed
Plant Pathologist. The usual lectures were given in con-
nection with the Saturday afternoon courses and in the
spring Dr. Seaver took charge of the Garden’s exhibit at
the Parents’ Exposition in the Grand Central Palace from
April 21 to April 28.

Mr. Percy Wilson, Associate Curator, gave considerable
attention to the study and determination of West Indian
plants, especially those from the Island of Cuba. He has
also studied and named large collections from northern
South America. A considerable number of dissections and

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slides have been made of plants representing the various
genera in the family Mimosaceae. His work as docent has
continued as in former years.

Mrs. William Mitchell, Associate Curator, devoted her
attention to the better arrangement of the specimens of all
the Gymnosperms and to the renovation of the specimens of
about twenty plant-families, and also to the installing of
various convenient labeling devices. She also attended to
the recording of the specimens of certain collections and to
the sorting and distribution of specimens both in the gen-
eral herbarium and the local flora herbarium. Mrs. Mitchell
prepared the specimens of many plant-families of the Bick-
nell herbarium and other local collections for incorporation
in the herbarium and for exchanges. She also made trans-
lations into English of articles and letters from European
countries.

The undersigned, in addition to curatorial details and
routine, devoted all the available time to botanical investi-
gations, some of which are referred to in the following
items; (a) studies in the living collections of Iris, Hymeno-
callis, and miscellaneous plants brought together in the
plantations during former explorations and through sev-
eral correspondents in the southern states; many of these
specimens flowered and were painted by Miss Eaton, artist,
as subjects for future illustration in Addistonia; (b) devel-
oping two outdoor duplicate plantings, with the assistance
of Mrs. Wheeler H. Peckham, Honorary Curator of the Iris
and Narcissus Collections, of the iris plants from the south-
ern States; (c) an intensive study of the flora and plant-
geography of the southeastern States and the continuation
of the taxonomic and geographic interpretation of the vege-
tation begun several years ago; (d) through the codpera-
tion of Mrs. Arthur Curtiss James, two exploration trips
were made to Florida, where studies were continued in the
field, both in peninsular and northern Florida. However,
a large part of the time was devoted to coédperation with
Mr. Thomas A. Edison in his rubber studies at Fort Myers
and other points. Information resulting from former field-

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work and from some of the activities enumerated above,
furnished materia] for eighteen articles which were printed
during the year.
Respectfully submitted,
JOHN K. SMALL,
Head Curator of the Museums and Herbarium.

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REPORT OF THE HEAD GARDENER

Dr. N. L. BRITTON, DIRECTOR-IN-CHIEF.

Sir: I have the honor to submit my annual report for the
year 1928.
HORTICULTURAL OPERATIONS

The outside force of 18 gardeners under the direction of
Mr. John Finley, Foreman Gardener, in addition to main-
tenance work in grounds, gardens, and hemlock forest, car-
ried out several extensive plantings. Trees and shrubs were
added to the grounds during both spring and fall planting
seasons, including more than 80 new species and varieties
added to the collections; many for street and path decora-
tions or woodland and thicket groups in newly opened sec-
tions, and as decorative flowering groups such as the flower-
ing crabs and hawthorns which were planted near the Iris
Garden Entrance, these plants the gift of Mr. Samuel
Moffitt. The daffodil naturalization scheme was extended,
the new planting of crocus, scilla and other small bulbs
effected, and the maintenance and changes in the iris garden
carried out under the direction of Mrs. Wheeler H. Peck-
ham. The éxtensive gladiolus collections of Dr. Forman T.
McLean were planted, another large assortment of tulips,
gift from the Holland Bulb-Exporters’ Association, was put
in place, the 1928 Prize Garden begun, and the usual plant-
ings and replacements around the conservatories were

ade.

Dr. Southwick has completely rebuilt a great portion of
the southeast side of the rock garden, and replanted much
of the rest, using new plants, many of which he has raised
from seeds or cuttings. The Rose Garden was very gener-
ously replanted again by Bobbink & Atkins, under the per-
sonal direction of Mr. Peter Kooy.

GREENHOUSE OPERATIONS

The greenhouse force of 17 gardeners, under direction of
Mr. H. W. Becker, Foreman Gardener, maintained the con-

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servatories as usual. A portion of House No. 6, Range
No. 1, was emptied of plants, and the space devoted to the
Mojave Desert exhibit shown by Mrs. Sherman Hoyt of
Pasadena at the 1928 International Flower Show, and after-
wards given by Mrs. Hoyt to the Garden. This exhibit was
brought here and placed in House No. 6 in remarkable time
and fashion, under Mr. Becker’s direction. During repairs
on Houses 9 and 10, at Range No. 1, the plants in these
houses were placed in other houses and in the tender water-
lily tank; they were returned later after complete reno-
vation, resoiling, and retubbing, thus making houses and
plants as good as new. Plants in all other houses and
ranges were rearranged, repotted, pruned, and otherwise
cared for. Flowering plants for the Central Display House,
Range No. 2, were raised, among them 158 varieties of
Chrysanthemums, including 50 new varieties given to the
Garden by Mr. Elmer D. Smith of Adrian, Michigan.

SUMMARY FROM ANNUAL REPORT

Accessions:
Plants received 5,648
Bulbs “ 143,850
Seeds (packets) received 1,054, including 100 col-
lected by members of this Department.
Collections:
Conservatories 26,531 plants
Arboretum and Fruticetum :
Pinetum 2,960 “ 234 species
Herbaceous Collections 4,000 <“
Displays: Plants Varieties
Tulips 68,750 160
Narcissus 200,000 150
Tris 1,200
Peony 5038 240
Rose 5,000 280
Dahlia 1,000 350

Chrysanthemum 570 158

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Displays: Plants Varieties
Cannas 1,060 64
Lilac 560 85
Mallow 560
Variegated Plants 510 68
Dwarf Plantation 66 28
Fall-flowering Shrubs 85 11
Gladiolus 4,000 400
Rock Gardens 5,150

Planting Additions:
oe Scilla, ete. ,000
(Naturalized) 83,500
10

Lilies 0 bulbs

Arboretum and Fruticetum 456 plants

Pinetum 20 =“

Fruticetum Decorative 50 =“

1928 Prize Garden

Conservatory Beds 250 “

Conservatory Beds 75 “ of Hemerocallis
from Dr. Stout

West Border 100

Road and Paths 50)“

Morphological Garden 25 *

We have been almost continuously throughout the year
engaged in supplying exchange collections to other institu-
tions and schools, and furnishing materials for classwork.

I have given five lectures in the regular courses at the
Garden. The following labels have been put in place and
specimens collected.

SVECIMENS voc ccc cence ence sennneane 150
We are ee indebted to Mr. Percy Wilson for relabel-
ing the Rock Garden and to Mr. E. H. Fulling for recatalog-
ing and relabeling the Pinetum.
Respectfully submitted,
KENNETH R. BOYNTON,
Head Gardener.

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REPORT OF THE HONORARY CURATOR, IRIS AND
NARCISSUS COLLECTIONS, 1928

IRIS

The large collections of Irises made by Dr. Small in
Florida and the Mississippi delta and planted in the Nursery
in the late spring of 1927, gave a wealth of bloom this last
summer. The plants had made a considerable growth dur-
ing the autumn, and, not feeling willing to lose the whole
of the “upperworks,” we decided to give some protection
over winter. This was done by placing boards on edge
each side of, and along the rows. With a roof of maple
branches and a thin sprinkling of hay, our plants came
through quite well. Dr. Small and Mr. Alexander were
thus able to describe many of the plants, putting on record
some gorgeous new things that should have good garden
value. Among these are a pale, ashen-mauve form of Iris
violipurpurea, worthy of a name and a place in any flower-
border; a very tall, light sky-blue, with immense flowers;
a deep, red-purple; and a handsome white. The already
described I. vinicolor showed up as a rival for anything that
is in commerce among the Beardless Irises at the present
time. Dr. Stout used these plants for hybridizing, making
unusual crosses which should aid very materially in the
study of this genus being carried out under the auspices of
the American Iris Society. As many seedlings result from
these crosses, ground to grow them is needed. It would be
a pity to have to discard some certain “families” now
started before it can be noted how their great-grandchildren
will behave.

In the Bearded-Iris Garden we suffered from inroads of
the so-called “root-rot” disease and have lost a great many
plants. Dr. Dodge is working on this problem and two beds
have been sterilized, the soil treated, healthy stock being
planted there to determine the effect of “winter killing” as
compared with the plants in beds that have received no care.
Some drastic treatment will have to be given to the large
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worked out by Dr. Dodge and his suggestions carried out
throughout the year. It seems certain that we shall have to
clear these beds and take out the soil, giving entirely new
soil with fertilizer and every attention to make what we
have in the way of plants survive.

The Alphabetical Garden was completely gone over and
replanted, the divisions of plants being sent to many test
and display gardens, some going a long distance, even to the
University of Saskatchewan at Saskatoon, Canada, and
others to Ames, Iowa, the Missouri Botanical Garden, Cor-
nell University, Morton Arboretum, Yale University, Har-
vard University; McPherson, Kansas; Redding, Connecti-
cut; Staten Island; Forest Park, Springfield, Massachu-
setts; Trenton Park Department, Trenton, New Jersey; the
University of Minnesota, etc.

The plants in the Trial plot at the nursery were judged,
dug, and distributed, or returned to the originators. Some
were destroyed in accordance with the policy of the Ameri-
can Iris Society to try to raise the standard of these plants
as used by the horticultural world.

Among gifts of plants this year we received a large col-
lection of Japanese varieties (two hundred and fifty plants
in fifty varieties) from John Lewis Childs, Inc., of Flower-
field, Long Island. Two new beds were made for these and
two old beds were emptied of their occupants, some Siberian
Irises that had not been doing well in that location, so we
now have four beds of good Japanese Irises which we are
fairly certain are correctly named and which we know to
be the best to be had in this country. This was a handsome
gift and one the visitors to the Garden will be sure to
welcome.

The Sibirica varieties were put in a slightly damper posi-
tion, which will probably suit them much better, and they
took the place of some miffed creatures from Florida that
had not enjoyed wet feet during winter. It seems certain
that southern swamp plants cannot be placed in swampy
locations in this locality if they are to persist. The actual
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alternate freezing and thawing. Early springs with late
frosts are an added handicap.

Many other plants were received and a list of the donors
follows:

DONORS OF IRISES, 1928

Edgar Anderson A. C. Moore

W. A. Anderson, Jr. Mrs. E. J. O’Connor
Dr. W. McL. Ayres Aug. J. Pauls

J. H. Bratt Mrs. W. H. Peckham
John Lewis Childs, Inc. Mrs. W. A. Plecker
Mrs. Louise K. Clabough C. A. Raynal

L. J. Egelberg Mr. Read

Farr Nursery Co. Dr. P. A. Rydberg
Thos. M. Fendall Mrs. Arthur H. Scott
Miss Louise Given Mrs. Eleanor Sherewood
Gray & Cole J. Marion Shull

J. H. Grinter W.N. Suksdorf

Mrs. A. B. Hamilton Mrs. Sara Toedt

A. A. Heller University of Tennessee
A. M. Hudelson Robert Wayman

Dr. Nancy Jenison Howard Weed

Talbot D. Jones Dr. E. T. Wherry

ih. G. Lapham J. C. Wister

Longfield Iris Farm Brother Wolf

Bruce C. Maples

NARCISSI

There is not much to report in this connection except that
there were more flowers than ever. The normal increase
took place and having so many, we thinned them here and
there to get a supply to continue our planting down the path
from the Alphabetical Iris Garden to the Iris Garden
entrance. We also planted the bank facing Fordham Hos-
pital to give the patients and staff a more attractive vista in
springtime.

It was noted that the bicolor trumpet variety, Victoria,
which is growing in a position shaded during a very small

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part of the day, had few flowers and the rainy summer
before with late frosts this last spring is blamed. The
flower-buds were probably not well developed and what were
in the bulbs may have been frozen after pushing up too
early. As there has been a very wet season this year also,
it will be interesting to see, if the coming spring is normal,
whether these plants will behave in the same manner or
return to what should be their normal behavior. Other
years this particular spot has been very floriferous and the
lack of flowers could not be caused by crowding, as the plot
has been judiciously thinned.

Thousands of people visited the collection during the
blooming season and with a very few exceptions they
behaved well and respected the plants.

Respectfully submitted,
ETHEL ANSON 8S. PECKHAM,
Honorary Curator, Iris and Narcissus Collections

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REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR OF THE
LABORATORIES FOR THE YEAR 1928

Dr. N. L. BRITTON, DIRECTOR-IN-CHIEF.

Sir: I submit herewith my annual report for the year
1928.

THE LABORATORIES

Early in the year all the microscopes belonging to the
Garden (except the exhibition microscopes) were cleaned
and repaired and a new microscope and two cameras were
purchased. Later, to meet the needs for work in pathology,
there were purchased two microscopes, an autoclave, a
refrigerator, and a photomicrographic apparatus. We now
need, as soon as the purchase can be made, a new water still
and several lenses and oculars. For maintenance and gen-
eral supplies during 1929 some expenditure above that of
1928 is logical on account of the increase in laboratory work.

COGPERATION IN THE LILY-DISEASE INVESTIGATION

The codperation in the investigation of lily diseases, out-
lined in my report for 1927, has been continued throughout
the year with very gratifying results. The scholarship
established for this research will be continued under the
present plan until next autumn, when a complete report of
the results will be published.

Bulbs of various of the more hardy lilies are being sup-
plied by Mr. John T. Scheepers for planting in our grounds.
Special effort will be made to keep these plantings free from
disease in order to maintain a good public display of lilies
in the border plantings.

COOPERATION WITH THE AMERICAN IRIS SOCIETY

The scholarship awarded by The American Iris Society
for this year was granted to Miss Katie Kirkpatrick, and
her efforts were directed to further breeding work along
lines desired by the Society. Her report has been submitted
to The American Iris Society.

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A report of the work of 1927 has been published*. The
Iris seedlings grown from the seed obtained in 1926 bloomed
during the year; a few of the best ones were selected for
special study; some were planted in display beds; and all
that were judged of no special value were discarded. The
seedlings from the breeding work of 1927 have thrived and
most of these will probably flower next year.

INVESTIGATIONS WITH POPLARS

The hybrids (about 13,000) obtained in the breeding
work with species of Populus are now being grown in Maine
and the selected seedlings are being propagated in a nursery
established and maintained by The Oxford Paper Company.
Various problems involved in the work, such as the
taxonomy and the pathology, are being studied in our
laboratories by Mr. E. J. Schreiner as a registered student
of the Garden.

PERSONAL RESEARCH

My personal investigations continue to be directed chiefly
to problems of sterility and fertility and to a few projects in
breeding that may be combined with the studies of sterility
and which have naturally developed in connection with
them.

Studies with Hemerocallis. Work with the daylilies has
become my major effort. This genus is being utilized very
fully (1) for critical studies of all the species, (2) for
studies of all the species and varieties as to their horticul-
tural values, (8) for cytological studies with reference to
sterility, (4) for experimental studies of sterilities, and
(5) for breeding to produce new types of horticultural
merit. The genus is not a large one but I know of no group
of plants that affords better material or promises greater

* Report of 1927 iris breeding experiment at The New York Botanical
Garden, by Clyde Chandler and A. B. Stout. Bulletin of The American Iris
Society No. 27, pp. 31-49. Contribution from The New York Botanical
Garden No. 299.

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returns of scientific and horticultural interest along the lines
indicated above.

Several seedlings of outstanding merit have been ob-
tained. A new species that produces as many as seventy-
five to one hundred flowers per scape has been discovered
among wild plants obtained from China, and a new race of
H. fulva has been found that has fiowers of light red and
almost pink shades of color. From the latter, a red-flowered
plant of remarkable beauty and richness of color has been
obtained by selective breeding. I wish to use these new
types in further breeding in the effort to develop stiil finer
daylilies.

Cytological Studies. During the year special cytological
studies have been made in reference to sterility and to
fertilization. Pollen-tube behavior in several cases of self-
and cross-incompatibility has been determined. A report on
the irregularities in chromosome number in plants of the
cultivated clon of H. fulva is now in manuscript ready for
publication. This particular study is being extended to all
the species of Hemerocallis and to numerous of the hybrids.

Research in Cooperation with the New York Agricultural
Experiment Station. The main effort in this codperation is
for the breeding of hardy seedless grapes. The one seedling
of high merit already obtained has continued to thrive, and
it is being propagated for distribution and general] trial.
Several hundred seedlings of this breeding effort are yet to
come to fruiting age. The pollinations made in 1928 were
highly successful and gave over 2,000 seeds to crosses in
which pollens of seedless grapes were used. A few vines of
tender vinifera seedless grapes (Sultanina, Sultanina Rose,
Black Corinth, and Black Monukka) are being grown in the
court areas between greenhouses at Range No. 2. Some of
these plants have bloomed fairly well and early enough to
supply pollen for use at Geneva. The progress of this
project warrants further effort and codperation.

During the season of the blooming of the fruit crops, I
spent a week at Geneva in continuing studies of the botani-
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the important fruits. It is now planned to prepare a bul-
letin on these studies for publication. At least another
season of codperation in this particular project is desirable.

The Transmission of the Infectious Variegation of
Abutilons through Seed. In connection with certain studies
of the incompatibilities in fertilization among Abutilons, it
has been determined that this virus disease may be trans-
mitted to as many as one-third of the seedlings. But the
point of special interest is that the variegation of the seed-
lings is paler and somewhat less pronounced than that of the
parent type, a result which suggests that the virus may be
weakened by passing through the seed or that different
plants respond differently to the virus.

Experiments with Convallaria. It has now been fully
determined that sterility from self-incompatibility is oper-
ating in various types of Lily of the Valley. Seed has been
obtained to compatible crosses and methods of successful
germination of the seed have been determined. Seedlings
are now being grown in the attempt to improve and inten-
sify the color of the pink-flowered type.

REGISTERED STUDENTS AND SCHOLARS

During the year, the following persons have been enrolled
at the Garden, either as recipients of scholarships or as
students registered for degrees:

ANDERSON, (Mrs.) GLADYS POMEROY, aged of Algae.

BONISTEEL, WILLIAM JOHN, Plant Breedin

BOWERS, CLEMENT GRAY, Breeding of nie eaendeous and
Azaleas.

Fay, DOLORES JOAN, Plant Breeding.

GOODLATTE, AMELIA R., Plant Breeding.

J aa DONALD ALEXANDER, Cytology of the Ona-
gracea

ae KATIE CLEO, Breeding of Irises.

ORTON, OLIVER SMALL, Breeding of Hemerocallis.

ROBERTS, CHARLES M., Taxonomy of Mosses.

KEuR, JOHN YAK, Research with Abutilons.

ROMANOFF, HERBERT M., Taxonomy.

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SCHREINER, ERNST J., Breeding, Pathology, and Taxonomy
of Populus.
VARRELMAN, FERDINAND ARMIN, Chromoplasts of Cuscuta.
Respectfully submitted,
A. B. Stout,
Director of the Laboratories.

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REPORT OF THE PLANT PATHOLOGIST
Dr. N. L. BRITTON, DIRECTOR-IN-CHIEF.

Sir: I have the honor to submit herewith my annual
report for the year 1928.

Owing to the hearty codperation extended by Mr. Kenneth
R. Boynton, Mr. John Finley and others, the routine work
of combating such insect pests as have made their appear-
ance in the Garden has been carried out without particular
effort on my part.

It may be pointed out that a species of beetle, Trirhabda
vittata on Baccharis, a snout beetle, Prionomerus calceatus
on sassafras, and a flea beetle, Chaetocnema quadricollis on
Hibiscus, not noted heretofore as doing particular damage
to these plants in this vicinity, were rather numerous this
year. The European willow-beetle also required special
attention. The appearance of these four beetles another
year will be anticipated and contro] measures applied at an
earlier date.

A shot-hole leaf-spot disease of Japanese cherry, appar-
ently caused by Bactertum Pruni, developed on several trees
during the summer. This disease has not been reported on
Japanese cherries and to what extent it may become in time
a menace to these ornamentals is uncertain. In any event
a promising method of contro! has just been reported for
the same disease on the common peach.

About 10% of the scale insect, Aulacaspis pentagona, on
the Japanese cherries survived the winter in spite of the
three applications of commercial lime-sulphur, applied as
dormant sprays. Two broods were hatched out during the
summer. The first hatch occurred about June 10. The trees
were sprayed June 17 with a solution of nicotine sulphate
and soap, with very satisfactory results. The few insects
that survived or hatched out later gave rise to a second
brood during the first weeks in August. It was thought they
were not more numerous than was desired to serve as hosts
for certain parasites, which, it was hoped, would become
established.

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The irises in some of the beds in the variety plantings
have continued to die out during the summer. It has Been
learned that the fungus Sclerotium Delphinit is one of the
principal agents at work here. Later in the season the
common bacterial rot was evident. As a species of Fusa-
rium was also frequently found in decaying rhizomes, some
experiments on the effect of soil sterilization were carried
out

A maggot of a fly, Chaetopsis, was found doing some
damage to the irises, particularly the Japanese varieties.
It is desirable that the work of this insect should be studied
further, and a method of control worked out in the event
that it should increase materially in numbers.

Particular attention has been given to the control of black
spot and brown canker of roses. Beginning June 11, and
continuing until September 13, a commercial preparation
consisting mainly of ammoniacal copper-carbonate was
applied to most of the roses at five-day intervals. The
fungicidal value of this material proved to be fairly satis-
factory and it left no unsightly residue on the foliage. A
few varieties which are very susceptible to black spot de-
veloped some spotting in spite of the regular treatments.
This was no doubt due to the fact that in July and August
there were periods when rain fell on several consecutive
days.

There were over 200 varieties in the Rose Garden which
showed no black spot whatever up to the first week in
October, which was at least two weeks after protection was
withdrawn. These varieties may be considered fairly re-
sistant, and it seems that black spot on them can be readily
controlled. About 200 varieties showed some spotting dur-
ing the summer at one time or another, but not enough to be
of any consequence. A smaller number of varieties (45)
proved to be rather highly susceptible to black spot, so that
a very thorough application of the fungicide was necessary.

A certain number of beds of hybrid tea roses were dusted
regularly with a sulphur dust, the particles of which had
been dyed green. This dust is not particularly noticeable

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on the foliage and it gives excellent control over black spot.
All the roses dusted with this sulphur came through in
splendid condition. The plants grew vigorously, retained
their foliage, and blossomed fully.

Certain experiments tried out in August and September
point to the benefits due to dusting with sulphur. It is
planned another year to obtain further evidence as to the
relative merits of these two fungicides. Details of the work
on roses will be published in another connection.

I have continued research on various species of fungi in
the laboratory, giving particular attention to the problems
of sex in the fungi. Further progress has been made in
hybridizing certain species.

B. O. DODGE,
Plant Pathologist.

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REPORT OF THE SUPERVISOR OF PUBLIC
EDUCATION

Dr. N. L. BRITTON, DiRECTOR-IN-CHIEF.

Sir: I have the honor to submit the following report for
the year 1928. Since I came on duty July 1, this deals prin-
cipally with the last half of the year.

LECTURES

Illustrated public lectures on botanical and horticultural
subjects were given in the Museum Building on Saturday
afternoons from February to November. The attendance
has averaged 121 for the 43 lectures. The new projector,
installed in July, has made it possible to show pictures much
more satisfactorily than heretofore, and the attendance at
lectures has noticeably increased. The maximum attend-
ance was 239, on September 22, but exceeded 200 on July
14 and March 381 also.

Winter lectures at the Central Display Greenhouse were
given as in previous years, in December and January. This
winter these have been made strictly horticultural, since the
greenhouse offers excellent opportunity to show the prac-
tical handling of plants. The attendance at these winter
gardening lectures has been small, but made up largely of
gardening enthusiasts. The average number during De-
cember was 54.

DEMONSTRATIONS FOR STUDENTS

In codperation with the grammar and high schools, col-
leges and universities, thousands of students have received
instruction at the Garden. These have usually come with
their teachers and have had one or more guides from the
Garden staff to accompany them. Mr. Wilson, Mr. Wil-
liams, Mr. Boynton, Mr. Fulling, or myself have usually
accompanied these parties. In response to an invitation
transmitted to them by Mr. Van Evrie Kilpatrick, of the
Department of Education, nearly one thousand pupils of the
public schools arranged for visits to the Garden during one

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month this autumn. Large classes came also from the
Roosevelt High School, the Evander Childs High School, the
Teachers Training School, Hunter College, and Columbia
University.

DOCENTRY

A considerable number of visitors, coming both singly and
in parties, have received the personal attention of the De-
partment of Public Education during the past half year.
Among the larger groups were the Dutchess County Horti-
cultural Society, the National Gardeners’ Association, the
American Nature-Study Society, and members of the
Fourth International Congress of Entomology and of the
American Phytopathological Society.

PUBLICITY

In order to reach the people in the suburbs of New York
who are interested in gardening and in the activities of The
New York Botanical Garden, weekly notes about lectures,
flower displays, interesting plants, gardening operations
and other timely matters have been sent to a large number
of the local newspapers published within fifty miles of New
York. This was begun the first of September, by sending
items to 125 newspapers; and the same material was also
forwarded to Mr. Grady at Columbia University, for the
Associated Press and the metropolitan dailies. The response
from this service, which has been continued up to date, and
extended to garden clubs and to other newspapers on their
request, has been most satisfactory, and has helped to keep
the public informed about the activities at the Garden.
From three to five items have been sent each week, totaling
more than forty items during the past four months. Occa-
sional articles have also been published from this depart-
ment, in Horticulture, The Gardeners’ Chronicle, The
American Florist, and other magazines.

OUTSIDE LECTURES

In response to requests from garden clubs, schools, and
other organizations, illustrated lectures have been given

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from time to time by other members of the staff of the
Botanical Garden as well as myself. Thus, lectures about
the Botanical Garden and its work were given at the Bridge-
port, Connecticut, Garden Club, the Teachers Training
School, and the American Nature-Study Society at the
American Museum of Natural History, and lectures on the
Gladiolus were given at several meetings.
PERSONAL INVESTIGATIONS
Studies of inheritance in the genus Gladiolus and cross-
breeding experiments were continued, though this work was
interrupted by the transfer of my collection of seedlings and
varieties to the Botanical Garden so late in the summer. A
report of previous work on incompatibilities of Gladiolus
varieties, was published in The Gladiolus Review, Sep-
tember, 1928.
Respectfully submitted,
FORMAN T. McLEAN,
Supervisor of Public Education.

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REPORT OF THE BIBLIOGRAPHER

Dr. N. L. BRITTON, DIRECTOR-IN-CHIEF.

Sir: Besides the usual bibliographic work, including
assistance to those consulting the library, answers to queries
received by mail, and approval of library purchases, the
time of the bibliographer during the year 1928 has been
taken up almost entirely by work on North American Flora
and Addisonia.

Of North American Flora, the first three parts of volume
23 appeared during this year: Part 1, in February; part 2,
in September; and part 3, in December. This has been pos-
sible only by the fact that these parts were edited chiefly
by one of the authors (yourself), the bibliographer acting
merely in an advisory capacity. Work on the manuscript
of volume 18, which has proven unusually difficult, has
progressed steadily throughout the year, and it should be
possible to issue several parts of this volume, as well as a
few parts in continuation of others, during 1929.

All four numbers of volume 13 of Addisonia have been
issued during 1928. With the new volume, the bibliographer
will be relieved of any editorial work in connection with this
publication, with which he has been identified since its
inception in 1916.

JOHN HENDLEY BARNHART,
Bibliographer.

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REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN

Dr. N. L. BRITTON, DIRECTOR-IN-CHIEF.

Sir: The chief occurrence of interest to the library during
the past year has been the installation of electric lights.
Those placed between the stacks in the main stack room are
a great convenience, while the large and beautiful one sus-
pended from the summit of the rotunda is sufficiently power-
ful to light the entire reading room. It would, however,
seem to be more practical to have reading lamps upon the
tables and smaller lights for the consultation of the cata-
logues, since there are few occasions when a general illumi-
nation is necessary.

There have been no extensive purchases of books during
the past year, the two largest single ones being 150 works
on horticulture and floriculture and 24 volumes of the
Journal of the Swedish forestry society.

The principal accessions, with names of the donors in
case of gifts, have been listed as heretofore in the Journal.

In accordance with the decision of the Scientific Directors,
the annual census of the books will be omitted in the future,
the statistics being compiled from the records alone.

The cataloguing of the Barnhart library purchased in
1926 is now completed, there having been accessioned dur-
ing the past year 458 bound volumes and 456 unbound
volumes and pamphlets.

There have been added to the library in addition to the
458 bound volumes just mentioned: by purchase, 206; by
gift, 32; by exchange, 15; and by binding 739, including 15
volumes belonging to Columbia University and exclusive of
82 Garden books which were rebound, making a total of
1,450.

From the 36,946 bound volumes in the library at the
close of 1927, there should be deducted 11 which were
returned to Columbia in January, leaving a balance of
36,9385, which, added to the 1,450 gained this vear, make a
total of 38,385 volumes at the close of 1928.

Approximately 260 pamphlets remaining from the

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Geneva purchase of 1923 have been catalogued. Work upon
the others will now progress as rapidly as time will permit.
The arrangement of collections of other pamphlets for bind-
ing has been begun and will be continued during the coming
year. ,

The total number of catalogue cards typewritten and filed
during the year was 2,012; those issued by the Torrey
Botanical Club and filed, 3,519; those issued by the Gray
Herbarium and filed 4,927.

The following additions and corrections should be made
to the serial! list published in the Report of the Librarian
for 1927. (Bulletin N. Y. Bot. Gard. 13: 285-303.)

Omit the pales
*Bolus Herbarium (University of Cape Town) Anna
International aa ute of Agriculture, Rome, Italy. eee

Add the following:

*Annales Bryologici. The Hague, Holland.
Beitrage zur geobotanischen Landesaufnahme, Ztirich, Switzerland.
*Die Pflanzenareale, Jena, Germany.
Liége. Institut Botanique de 1’ Université, Liége, Belgium. Archive
New Zealand Institute, Wellington, N. Z. Transactions and Cane
*Svenska Skogsvardsforeningens Tidskrift, Stockholm, Sweden
Voronezh. Society of Naturalists, Voronezh, U. S. S. R. Bullet:
Change the following:
*Garden and Home Builder to Aas Hom
Buenos Aires. Museo de pee aces Trabajo to Buenos Aires. Instituto
de Botanica y Farmacologia, Trabaj
ei submitted,
SARAH H. Harlow,
Librarian.

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REPORT OF THE PALEOBOTANIST

Dr. N. L. BRITTON, DIRECTOR-IN-CHIEF.

Sir: I have the honor to report as follows upon matters
that have received my attention during the year 1928.

The most important item was the completion of my work
on the paleobotany of Porto Rico, which was put through
the press, and was issued October 1, as part 3 of volume 7 of
the Scientific Survey of Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands.

A collection of about forty specimens of Tertiary plants,
transmitted from the American Museum of Natural History
for identification, was examined, and all identifiable speci-
mens were named and labeled. Seven of the specimens,
including three duplicates and four undescribed species,
were donated in exchange for the work of identification.
These may be found recorded under Lot No. 58 (Accession
No. 26).

Several requests were received, from various sources,
for identification of paleobotanical and supposed paleo-
botanical material, including fossil woods and a supposed
fossil apple. All were given careful attention and were
duly reported upon.

From named duplicate material in the fossil plant collec-
tions we furnished fourteen specimens for educational pur-
poses to the Childrens’ Museum at Saint Joseph, Mo., and
eight specimens to the Department of Public Education of
the American Museum of Natural History.

Accessions of paleobotanical literature included forty-five
octavo and twelve quarto separates received as exchanges;
one octavo donated, and one purchased. The fifty-seven
pieces received as exchanges were from eighteen different
authors, six of whom represent new contributors. This is
the largest number of such accessions yet recorded for any
one year. Incidentally it may be pertinent to note that only
two of the eighteen authors are located in America.

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During the later part of the year, as time permitted, I
was occupied with the preparation of the manuscript of our
joint work on the revision of the flora of Staten Island. This
is now almost completed and will be ready for printing in
the near future.

Five days were spent in the field—each one with a definite
object in view, viz.: Annadale, Staten Island, collecting
specimens of Isotria verticillata for the herbarium and for
the rock garden; Dongan Hills (Todt Hill), Staten Island,
to obtain photographs of the few remaining trees of Ilex
opaca; Kensico Dam and contiguous territory, collecting
specimens of Liparis Loesleii for illustration in Addisonia;
Ulster County, N. Y., in the vicinity of New Paltz, investi-
gating the sand dunes of the region and their accompanying
flora; Bronx Park area, to obtain photographs of tree-root
growth and rock disintegration for illustrations and for
lantern slides. The item first mentioned was made the sub-
ject of an illustrated article in the August issue of Torreya;
and articles based upon the other items are in preparation
for publication. The successful accomplishment of the
object of each of these field days was rendered possible
through the courtesy and the enthusiastic codperation of
Mr. and Mrs. Henry C. Hartmann; and to the former I am
also indebted for expert photographic work, whenever
requested, in the field and indoors.

During the early part of the summer I had the pleasure
of receiving and entertaining Dr. Richard Krausel, Pro-
fessor of botany and paleobotany at the University of
Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany, who was on a visit to the
United States and Canada, in order to study the Devonian
flora of North America, both in the field and as represented
in museum collections.

On July 7, I delivered a lecture, in the summer course of
the Garden, on “The Story of the Redwoods.”

I was in attendance at the Washington, D. C., meeting
of the American Association of Museums, May 15-22: and

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at the New York meeting of the American Association for
the Advancement of Science and affiliated societies, during
convocation week, December 26-31.
Respectfully submitted,
ARTHUR HOLLICK,
Paleobotanist.

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REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF
BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS

Dr. N. L. BRITTON, DIRECTOR-IN-CHIEF.

Sir: I have the honor to submit the following report for

the year 1928: ,
REGULATING AND GRADING

During the past year considerable regulating and grading
of the paths of the Garden has been accomplished. This
was on the western side of the Bronx River along the Wood
Road from the Iris Garden to the Linnaeus Bridge En-
trance, where two paths were built.

The contractor working for the Empire Subway Company
delivered about 5,000 yards of fill to the valley of the Long
Lake.

During the year five men and two carts were assigned to
the work of filling in the Long Lake, which is now about
three-quarters filled.

DRAINAGE

One catch-basin and 6 feet of 6-inch drainage pipe were
used for draining the side of the road at the Herbaceous
Grounds. Two culverts and 40 feet of 6-inch drainage pipe
were used to drain the sides of the path at south end of
grounds near the Linnaeus Bridge. On the east side of the
Bronx River south of the Long Bridge, the catch-basin and
drainage pipe were moved to meet the change of grade.
Wherever it was necessary, repairs were made to culverts
and catch-basins throughout the Garden.

WATER SUPPLY

The water systems of the Museum Building, Conservatory
Ranges 1 and 2, the Propagating Houses, the stables, the
comfort stations, the Power Houses 1 and 2, and all of the
drinking fountains around the grounds received extensive
repairs.

PATHS

In order to connect the Linnaeus Bridge Entrance with

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the Iris Garden, a path 10 feet wide and 1,150 feet long
was built on the western side of the Bronx River. On the
western side of the Wood Road a path 10 feet wide and 664
feet long was built to the Iris Garden, with three branch
paths east and south, one branch path 10 feet wide and 120
feet long, one 10 feet wide and 100 feet long, and the other
10 feet wide and 110 feet long. On the east side of the
Wood Road north of the Iris Garden a path 10 feet wide
and 500 feet long, with a branch path 10 feet wide and 300
feet long into the Hemlock Grove. The hill paths leading to
the Elevated Railway Entrance, Conservatory Range 1,
Iris Garden, and the Japanese Cherry Collection were given
a coat of Tarvia and a light cover of ashes.
BUILDINGS

At the Museum Building, the steam and water systems
and the window sashes and doors received necessary repairs.
Two coats of paint were given to the main hall at entrance
to building. Four herbarium cases were built for the
herbarium and one lantern-slide case was installed.

At the Conservatory Range 1 the interior and exterior of
Houses 9 and 10 received two coats of paint; the glass and
sash bars were removed and replaced; all the copper leaders
of Houses 9 and 10 were replaced; the broken glass at Con-
servatory Ranges 1 and 2 and at the Propagating Houses
was replaced by the painters.

At Power House 1, the fire-boxes were replaced in the
five boilers.

At Power House 2, the fire-box of boiler No. 7 was
replaced.

All necessary repairs were made to the steam system by
our engineers.

GROUNDS

We have built and distributed on the grounds 100 con-
crete benches 7 feet long and 2 feet wide. The foundation
6 by 30 inches and 570 feet long for the nursery fence was
completed.

Repairs were made to the one- and two-rail cedar fence.

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The iron fencing received two coats of paint, and the maps
and signs were repaired or replaced wherever necessary.

The Propagating Houses were supplied with fuel for four
months from wood cut from dead or fallen trees. Nearly
forty tons of hay were cut during the warm weather. The
quarry at the Museum Building was worked for three
months, to supply stone for new path work.

From May until September about a dozen picnics a week
visited the Garden, the parties including from 75 to 1,000
children each. These children attended public, private, and
Sunday schools of Greater New York, Long Island, New
Jersey, and Connecticut and were escorted to the picnic
grounds of the Garden by our special guards, who are
assigned to these grounds daily during the summer months.

During the past year four uniformed police officers were
assigned to the Garden from ten in the morning until six in
the evening. They were assisted by two officers in civilian
clothes. On Sundays and holidays ten guards, selected from
the gardeners and laborers, assisted the keepers in patrol-
ing the grounds. About 325 summonses were served by the
police officers for violations of park ordinances. The
offenders were arraigned in the magistrates’. courts and
were fined from one to ten dollars each.

The number of visitors to the Garden has greatly in-
creased this last year.

For twenty-four hours every day, special guards were
assigned to the rose, gladiolus, and dahlia collections during
the summer months.

Due to the watchfulness of our employees, very little dam-
age has been done to the plantations throughout the
grounds.

Respectfully submitted,
ARTHUR J. CORBETT,
Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds.

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REPORT OF THE HONORARY CURATOR OF THE
ECONOMIC COLLECTIONS

Dr. N. L. BRITTON, DIRECTOR-IN-CHIEF.

Sir: I have the honor of submitting the following report
of the Economic Collections for the year

Owing to the large amount of work connected with my
determination of South American plants, and the naming
and describing of new forms, I have been obliged to refer
the details of economic work to others.

In connection with the installation of new specimens
received, the work of labeling specimens already installed
and of rewriting labels requiring it, has been continued.
Some hundreds of labels have been placed, and the manu-
script for hundreds of others has been prepared for
printing.

Special attention has been given to our collection of proxi-
mate principles of plants. The completion of this collec-
tion, generously undertaken by Messrs. Merck & Company,
was interrupted by the world war. A large part of the work
has now been done, and it will be completed during the
early part of the coming year.

Respectfully submitted,
H. H. Russy,
Honorary Curator of the Economic Collections.

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REPORT OF THE HONORARY CURATOR OF MOSSES

Dr. N. L. BRITTON, DIRECTOR-IN-CHIEF.

Dear Sir: The most notable gift to the collection has been
made by Eugene A. Rau of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, who
has presented to us his collection of mosses. His exchanges
with contemporary bryologists included Leo Lesquereux,
Thomas P. James, Thomas C. Porter, Coe Finch Austin,
Charles Mohr, and John Macoun. In this way he accumu-
lated a large and interesting herbarium of rare mosses,
including many from Mexico, which will be a welcome addi-
tion to our collection.

Our correspondents have continued to send mosses for
identification and comparison from various parts of the
United States and Canada. Other exchanges have added
specimens from Cuba, Jamaica, Porto Rico, Costa Rica,
Venezuela, and Dutch Guiana, also from China. The Field
Museum has contributed some mosses from Peru and two
sets of Exsiccati have also been added to the collections.

Mr. Williams has continued to serve as President of the
Sullivant Moss Society and contributed various articles to
The Bryologist. Mr. Bartram has sent mosses from Texas,
Jamaica, and Costa Rica for study and exchange and has
recently published a list of the mosses collected by Paul C.
Standley in Costa Rica, dedicating several new species to
Mr. Williams and to me, in acknowledgment of our assist-
ance in the determination of this collection.

The mounting of the George N. Best herbarium has been
continued and so far 6,225 specimens have been acces-
sioned.

In November the lantern slide collection was transferred
to the care of Dr. Forman T. McLean, Supervisor of Public
Education, and the Scientific Directors gave me a vote of
thanks for the care of this collection.

Many letters of inquiry and applications for literature on

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conservation have been received and leaflets have been
freely distributed through the aid of the Stokes Fund for
the Preservation of our Native Plants.
Respectfully submitted,
ELIZABETH G. BRITTON,
Honorary Curator of Mosses.

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REPORT OF THE HONORARY CUSTODIAN OF THE
LOCAL HERBARIUM

Dr. N. L. BRITTON, DIRECTOR-IN-CHIEF.

Sir: During 1928 various accessions were prepared for
mounting and some accumulated material was distributed.

A collection of Crooke’s Staten Island specimens here-
tofore not in the local collections was checked up with the
herbarium and about 68 sheets chosen by you for incorpora-
tion with the Local Herbarium, about twice that number
being laid aside as duplicate material.

Under your supervision the following plant families of
the Bicknell collection were prepared for mounting: Caesal-
piniaceae, Fabaceae, Cyperaceae (excl. of Carex). Dupli-
cate labels were prepared at the same time, so these dupli-
cates are available.

The work of the preliminary sorting of the unmounted
material of the Bicknell collection into genera, species, and
duplicates was carried on as usual, and the subsequent work
of recording and writing labels for the already prepared
material, and storing them away in sequence, covered the
range of 37 families: Geraniaceae to Vacciniaceae. There
are now 11,450 specimens prepared in the Bicknell
Herbarium.

Some material from various old collections was selected
for mounting during the year by Mrs. Mitchell and Mr.
Wilson, and will be mounted as soon as time permits.

The accessions for 1928 total 111.

H. M. DENSLOw,
Honorary Custodian of the Local Herbarium.

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REPORT OF THE CHAIRMAN OF THE SCIENTIFIC
DIRECTORS

To THE BOARD OF MANAGERS OF THE NEW YORK BOTANICAL
GARDEN.

Gentlemen: The Board of Scientific Directors has lost
two members during the year—Professor Herbert Maule
Richards by death, and Professor William J. Gies by resig-
nation on his retirement as Emeritus Professor of Biological
Chemistry in Columbia University. We are fortunate in
having as their successors Dr. H. M. Denslow, already Hon-
orary Curator of the Local Herbarium, and Professor
Marston T. Bogert, Professor of Organic Chemistry,
Columbia University.

The scientific work of the Garden has been notably ex-
tended during the year by the addition to our staff of
Dr. B. O. Dodge, who fills the new position of Pathologist,
and Dr. F. T. McLean, who also fills a new position—that
of Supervisor of Public Education.

The adequate care and protection from disease of our
large and highly diversified plantations is a major obliga-
tion of the Garden, if we are to develop and hand on to
coming generations unimpaired the wealth of plant life
which the Garden had as its heritage from nature and
which has been so notably increased by the gifts of its many
benefactors. The national government and the states are
expending vast sums in the attempt to protect and improve
our agricultural fruit and truck crops, but with this as
their first responsibility they have been able to give little
time and attention to equally needed work on the diseases of
ornamentals and the special problems of park and city
planting.

The Garden is to be congratulated on being able, through
the generous gift of the Carnegie Corporation, to provide
more adequately for the organization of our educational
relations, both with the school system and the general pub-
lic. The so-called garden club movement and the develop-
ment of higher standards of taste in matters of landscape

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gardening and decorative planting lays upon us, as the larg-
est and most strategically located botanical garden in the
western hemisphere, a great responsibility for leadership.
Respectfully submitted,
R. A. HARPER,
Chairman of the Scientific Directors.

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TREASURER’S REPORT FOR THE YEAR ENDING
DECEMBER 31, 1928

EXHIBIT I
BALANCE SHEET
December 31, 1928

JOHN L. MERRILL, Treasurer

ASSETS
Permanent Fund Assets:
Investments (Ex hibit IIIT)......... $2,331,889.14
Cash awaiting investment ......... 694.54
———-_— $2,332, 583.68

Balance of permanent fund assets
expended for current uses (See
current fund liability per contra) 38,752.56
$2,371,336.24
Current and Working Assets:
in banks and on hand

General purposes ............... $ 11,090.85
Special purposes ............... 21,267.51
—————-$ 32,298.36
TT receivable — City main-
NANCE! jess wes dice eos AG oe sake ee 23,833.64
ieee ee dividends receivable
(Exhibit IIT) ..........--..06-, 31,008.80
Prepaid insurance premiums ....... 922.25

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EXHIBIT I
BALANCE SHEET
December 31, 1928

LIABILITIES
Permanent Funds (Exhibit IV) :

ONS sauwie dave ieeeaas $ 184,367.47
Unrestricted endowments, including be-
uests set aside by the Board of Man-

agers as permanent funds ............ 2,169,497.57
Special endowment, with we interest in

respect of income therefrom .......... 17,471.20

Current Liabilities and Special Funds:
Current liabilities :
counts payable ............. ee eee 5,023.14
Special funds (Exhibit V) :
Unexpended income from restricted
funds: o2hida cick dihaereaed A aa deen $ 3,624.98
Unexpended contributions set aside by
the Board of Managers for specific
PULPOSES seco co G hee caseee ee ee es 17,582.53
Deferred income credits

Membership dues pa’ aid in pata Leela $ 470.00
Subscriptions paid in advanc 07

$2,371,336.24

21,207.51

———_—— 1,177.50
Balance of indebtedness to permanent
funds for eae of fund assets

Bi current USCS .......- cece enews 38,752.56
Sur :
ee at December 31, 1927.......... $ 14,179.39
of income over expendi-
tures for the year ending December
31, 1928 (Exhibit II)............. 7,724.93
—_—_————_. 21,904.32
———— 88,065.03

$2,459,401.27

CERTIFICATE OF AUDITORS
ye examined the books and accounts of The New York Botanical
sive) are c correctly prepared therefrom, and,
the financ: cial position of the corporation as at December 31, 1928, and the
transactions for the year ended on that date.
Price, WATERHOUSE & Co.
56 Pine Street, New York, March 28, 1929.

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EXHIBIT II
Statement of Operations for the Year Ending December 31, 1928
: Restricted
City :
laaintenan ees General cake Total
Income:
Income from investments :

f permanent f $115,247.43 $ 9,165.62 | $124,413.05
Contributions .........-. $243,134.50 200.00 12,599.00 | 255,933.50
ee dues

ee i cenca tied aoa 16,555.00 . , 16,555.00

eer wis Garetniislees 475.00 | 475.00
Sa is of “duplicate books ;

dries .......e6e | 322.00 | 322.00
Subscriptions aad sales of | | H

publications ............ | 2,831.23 | 440.54 | 5.27177

Total income ...... $243,134.50 | $135,630.66 | $ 24,205.16 . $402.970.32
Expenses : : |
Maintenance and general i
expenses: | |
Salaries of Director-in- |
Chief, oa and | |

ola Wbschages $171,322.30 | oo 876. 10 | $ 2,700.00 , a i

Wages .......escce eee 27,688.75 32'964.10 | 85

Morile and supplies. . 123,438 ar 93 - a 33
Stationery, ane | :

postage, etc. ......... 4,473.75 4,473.75
ernie: equipment | I

eee eae | 830.27 | 7 830.27

Interest he exchange.. | 355.98 | | 355.98

ene, . 1,406.04 "| : 1,406.04

Miscellaneous sueeeaenaccats i 950.89 ~ 3,950.89

$243,134. au $115,155.96 $ 2.700.00 | | $360,990.46
Tpovements and exhibits {
rovements to buildings :

and grounds ........... |S 459.00 S$ 439.00

as equipment pur- :
ee ee 909.30 +S 651.85 1,261.13
tabeaten equipment pare | =

AS@d ses ukuneedisanat 3,171.10 | 3,171.10
eae! books, bindings, ' ;

A seth ae dann care aie seus | | ~ 3,185.18 J 3,185.18
ere specimens ....... | ! 831.84 |> 590. 1,421.96
aio os eehases aa ex: | .

PENSES aes ceua ecard 147.05 3728.62 #4 3.875.67
Boenicl Raa and |
collections ............. 505.80 388.77 | 894.57
Model eee prizes .... | 200. 200.00
| $ 6024.09 | $ 8,744.54 ' S$ 14,768.63
Expenses: ; |
Education and research : i

lie ae and in-

Sagi sae ean $ 2582.84 $ 2,382.84

Scholarships prizes, etc. 225.00 225
Publications ........... 5,459.69 5,740.41 11,200.10

sea an eer 1,040.99 300.00 1,340:

Investigation and prese

on of native Bienes 35.14 :
$ 6725.68 | S$ 8658.39 | $ 15,384.07
Total expenses .... | $243,134.50 | $127,905.73 $ 20,102.93 ; $391,143.16

Excess of income over ex- | j |

penses for the year....... | $ 7,724.93 | $ 4,102.23 S$ 11,827.16

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EXHIBIT Ill
Summary of Investments, December 31, 1928

sold
yield for
r value pou year on
CNo par value] Approximate Book val een basis of
stocks at | market value epee dividends | Mar-
Bock vas Dec. 31, 1928) ket | Book
value| value
%o ‘0
cane funds :
onds ....... $ 542,000.00 | $ 535,293.83 | $ 527,919.63 | $ 7,120.00 | 4.88 | 4.95
aie s—
Preferred ... 63,500.00 74,591.25 71,310.00 837.50 | 5.29 | 5.53
___14.700.00 29,179.50 |__17,091.67 |___220.50 | 3.02 | 5.15
$ 620,200.00 | $ 639,064.58 | $ 616,321.30 | $ 8,178.00 | 4.84 | 5.02
pace Fund:
onds ......- $ 515,000.00 | $ 501,492.10 | $ 462,613.81 | $ 9,041.24 | 4.96 | 5.38
ee s—
Preferred .. 146,500.00 186,268.13 164,898.76 1,356.25 | 5.09 | 5.75
Common ... 71,900.00 239,512.00 106,885.10 2,339.98 | 3.59 | 8.05
$ 733,400.00 | $ 927,272.23 | $ 734,397.67 | $ 12,737.47 | 4.64 | 5.85
Special Endow-
nt Fund:
Bonds ...... $ 19,000.00 | $ 19,475.00] $ 19,398.50| $ 395.83 | 4.88 | 4.90
t $s
Preferred 360,000.00 466,865.62 beers a 4,800.00 | 5.05 | 5.42
9,000.00 11,463.75 135.00 | 4.71 | 5.45
$ 388,000.00 | $ 497,804.37 | $ ro T3038 $ 5,330.83 | 5.03 | 5.39
Jo ocke-
feller, Jr.
und :
onds ....... $ 201,000.00 | $ 198,743.75 | $ 200,760.25 | $ 2,312.50 | 5.05 | 5.00
Preferred
ocks ...... 254,137.50 325,737.50 298,825.01 2,450.00 | 4.95 | 5.42
$ 455,137.50 | $ 524,481.25 | $ 499,585.26 | $ 4,762.50 | 5.00 | 5.25
Special Trust
und :
Common Stock| $ 23,600.00 | $ 46,846.00 | $ 17,454.53 3.02 | 8.11
$2,220,337.50 | $2,635,468.43 | $2,331,889.14 | $ 31,008.80 | 4.81 | 5.43
Summary of Average Yields of Investments for Year
On basis of
Market Book
alue Value
Bonds 2casdst duet eaheauseevass 4.94% 5.12%
Stocks :
Preferred .......eeeeeeeee 5.05 5.49
Common ......eseeeeeeeeee 3.50 7.56

481%

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EXHIBIT IV
Statement of Permanent Funds, Showing Changes during the Year Ending
December 31, 1928

Balance at vas : Balance at
Jan. 1, 1928 Additions |Deductions Dec. 31, 1928
oe endowments
ent for science
and cae TION s-s.sees ee $ 89,115.49 $ 89,115.49
Addison Brown Fund.. 21,149.31 21,149.31
John Innes Kane Fund 35, 347.63 35,347.63
Maria DeWitt Jesup
Fund desc sce 33 aac ae 25,000.00 25,000.00
Olivia and a
Phelps " Stoke: es 3,000.00 3,000.00
ee Budd anes
Saas cereus 755.04 755.04
The E. H. Memorial
Fund ...........00 5,000.00 5,000.00
Alexander P. Anderson
ydia Anderson
Fund for Research.. $ 5,000.00 5,000.00
$ 179,367.47 | $ 5,000.00 $ 184,367.47
Unrestricted endowments :
d..... | $ 229,443.06 | $ 850.00 $ 230,293.06
David Lydig Fund.... 34,337.86 34,337.86
Pee Research
Peed ane 5,656.00 350.00 6,006.00
William R. Sands Fund 10,000.00 10,000.00
Darius Ogden Mills
Fund .............. 48,099. 7 48,099.17
Henry Iden Fund..... 10,000.0: 10,000.00
Fanny Bridgham Fund 30, 000. 00 30,000.00
Francis Lynde Stetson
Fund ............05 25,000.00 25,000.00
Russell Sage and Mar-
livia Sage
Memorial Fund . 725,012.39 51,783.75 2,498.00 774,298.14
Frances con Par-
ons Fund ......... 2,304.67 2,304.67
Soeeial Endowment
Fund .............. 463,172.33 600.00 463,772.33
The John D. Rocke-
feller, Jr. Fund..... 500,000.00 500,000.00
he Charles Patrick
aly an ria
Lydig Daly Fund... 19,636.34 19,636.34
The James A. Scrymser
and Mar crym-
ser Fund .......... 12,750.00 12,750.00
7 aarotee N. Best
ie ee saeleeeitnane 000.00 3,000.00
_$2,118,411.82 $53,583.75 | $ 2,498.00 | $2,169,497.57
Special endowments : ia 7
Special Trust Fund... | $17,471.20 17,471.20
$2,315,250.49 | $ 58,583.75 2,498.00 | $2,371,336.24

Statement of ese of Incom

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EXHIBIT V

SPECIAL FUNDS

ial Funds nee for Specific Purpos

e from Restricted hitored Funds and

Balance vas Expendi- Balance
Jan. 1, 1928 | “dditions Dec. 31, 1928
Restricted permanent funds:
Endowment for science
and education:
Public lectures and i
struction, research oe
publications other than
i sonia” ......... $ 1,575.14] $ 4,430.26 | $ 5,840.27; $ 165.13
Addison Brown Fund
Publicatio on of “Ad
disonia” .......... 3,487.76 3,487.76
John Inne ane
Pla: Pala and
expenses .......... 1,339.90 1,757.27 2,104.30 992.87
eee “DeWitt Jesup
Botanical collections
and binding of books 1,503.64 1,242.85 1,384.87 1,361.62
ivia E, and Caroline
Phelps Stokes Fund:
Investigation and
preservation
tive plants ........ 433.40 153.34 35.14 551.60
Gite. Budd Robinson
und:
Exploration ......... 38.94 37.54 76.48
The H. H. Memorial
Fun
Development of model
ardens ........... 180.14 248.57 200.00 228.71
Alexander P. Ande
Lydia pene
Fund for Research... 248.57 a 248.57
$ 5,071.16 | $ 11,606.16 | $ 13,052.34 | $ 3,624.98
Special Funds contributed
for specific purposes
Contributions of Trustees
of Carnegie Corporation
r Voss £ public
Seas te oe $ 12,000.00 | $ 6,000.00 | $ 5,417.47 | $ 12,582.53
Gout ations Garden
ectures .........- 34.12 34.12
pe ee nor crocus
bulbs: eisset ese heeds 1,599.00 1,599.00
Bequest of William Gil-
man Thompson, desig-
nated by Executive Com-
mittee for construction
of shelter house ....... 5,000.00 ,000.0
$ 12,034.12 | $ 12,599.00 | $ 7,050.59 | $ 17,582.53

$ 17,105.28

$ 24,205.16 | $ 20,102.93 | $ 21,207.51

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REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON PATRONS,
FELLOWS AND MEMBERS FOR THE
YEAR 1928

The number of new members who have qualified is 251.
The number of annual members is now 1,764, a net increase
of 129 during the year. Life members 121; fellowship
members 1; sustaining members 20.

Of the annual members 84 are now in arrears for dues
for 1928, 25 for dues for 1927 and 1928, 25 for dues for
1926, 1927, and 1928.

Dues have been collected to the amount of $16,900.

Three persons have qualified as life members by the pay-
ment of $250 each. These sums have been transmitted to
the treasurer.

A complete list of all classes of members to date is here-
with submitted.

BENEFACTORS

Edward D. Adams, — *Mrs. John Innes Kane,
*Mrs. Fanny Bridgham, *D. O. Mills, -
*Hon. Addison Brown,’ J.P. Morgan, a
* Andrew Carnegie, *J. Pierpont Morgan, Sr.,

Columbia University, John D. Rockefeller,
*Hon. Charles P. Daly, John D. Rockefeller, Jr.,

Daniel Guggenheim, *\Mrs. Russell Sage,

Murry Guggenheim, | *Francis Lynde Stetson,

Edward 8S. Harkness, * *Cornelius Vanderbilt.

PATRONS

Oakes Ames, *Mrs. Louisa Combe,

George F. Baker, * James M. Constable,
*Miss Catherine A. Bliss, *Charles Deering,

Dr. N. L. Britton, Henry W. de Forest,
*Hon. Addison he Dr. Robert W. de Forest,
*Andrew Carn * William E. Dodge,

*Mrs. George Whitheld Collord, *James B. Ford,
* Deceased.

*George J. Gould,
Edward S. Harkness,

*Mrs. Esther Herrman,
Frederick Trevor Hill,
Archer M. Huntington,

*Henry Iden,

*Mrs. Helen C. Inslee,

*Mrs. John Innes Kane,

*John Stewart Kennedy,

*Mrs. Mary J. Kingsland,

Prof. Frederic 8. Lee,
Mrs. Frederic 8. Lee,

*J. Pierpont Morgan, Sr.,

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*Oswald Ottendorfer,
*Lowell M. Palmer,
*William Rockefeller,
*William R, Sands,
*William C. Schermerhorn,
Mortimer L. Schiff,
*James A. Scrymser,
*Mrs, Mary C. Scrymser,
Mrs. Finley J. Shepard,
*Samuel Sloan,
*Mrs. Frederick F. Thompson,
*Dr. W. Gilman Thompson,
*W.K. Vanderbilt,

Mrs. Antoinette Eno Wood.

* Deceased.

Feiitows For Lire

Edward D. Adams, ’

J. E. Aldred,

George F. Baker,

Miss Elizabeth Billings,
Dr. N. L. Britton,

Mrs. N. L. Britton,

Mrs. Andrew Carnegie,
James W. Cromwell,
Mrs. W. Bayard Cutting,
Dr. Robert W. de Forest,
Childs Frick,

Daniel Guggenheim,
Murry Guggenheim, -

8. R. Guggenheim,
William Halls, Jr.,

Mrs. William L. Harkness,
Mrs. John Stewart Kennedy

Prof. Frederic S. Lee,’
Mrs. Frederic 8. Lee, :
William J. Matheson,
Ogden Mills, '

J.P. Morgan,

Mrs. Lewis R. Morris,’
Mrs. George W. Perkins,’
E. A. Richard,

Mrs. John A. Roebling,
Mortimer L. Schiff,”
Leon Schinasi,

Mrs. Arthur H. Scribner,’
Mrs. John T, Terry,
Charles G. Thompson,
Louis C. Tiffany,

Tiffany & Company,
Felix M. Warburg,

Mrs. William H. Woodin.

Lire Mrmpezrs

Edward D. Adams,
Dr. Felix Adler,

Dr. 8. T. Armstrong,
Edward W. C. Arnold,

Mrs. Hugh D. Auchinceloss,

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William A. DuBois,

Dr. John Hendley Barnhart, \_ George E. Dunscombe,

George D. Barron,

Aurel Batonyi,

Gustav Baumann,
“Henry Rogers Benjamin,
Samuel R. Betts,
William G. Bibb,

Miss Elizabeth Billings,
Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss,
George Blumenthal,

G. T. Bonner,

Mrs. Addison Brown,
Mrs. Andrew Carnegie,
T. Morris Carnegie,

Miss Marian Roby Case,
Frank R. Chambers,
Hugh J. Chisholm,
Hugh J. Chisholm, Jr.,
George C. Clark,

Banyer Clarkson,

Dr. James B. Clemens,
William F’. Cochran,
W.R. Coe,

William Colgate,

Miss Georgette T. A. Collier,
W.E. Conner,

Mrs. F. A. Constable,

S. Wilbur Corman,

R. N. Cranford,

Melville C. Day,

Mrs. John Ross Delafield,
Maturin L. Delafield,
Rev. H. M. Denslow,
W.B. Dickerman,

Miss Josephine W. Drexel,
Isaac W. Drummond,
Miss Ethel DuBois,

Mrs. William K. du Pont
Thomas Dwyer,
“Mrs. Thomas A. Edison,
Ambrose K. Ely,

Dr. John F, Erdmann,
Edward J. Farrell,
Marshall Field,

Mrs. H. J. Fisher,
Charles R. Flint,
Eugene G. Foster,

Mrs. John French,
Childs Frick,

Daniel Guggenheim,
Bernard G. Gunther,
Franklin L. Gunther,
Charles J. Harrah,

R. Somers Hayes,

John Hubbard,

Archer M. Huntington,
Frank D. Hurtt,

James H. Hyde,

Mrs. Columbus O’D. Iselin,
Miss Annie B. Jennings,
Mrs. David J. Kelley,
Nathaniel T. Kidder,
Wheaton B. Kunhardt,
Charles Lanier,

W. V. Lawrence,

Mrs. George Lewis,
Joseph Loth,

Louis Marshall,

Edgar L. Marston,
William J. Matheson,

C. W. McAlpin,

Dr. George N. Miller,
A. G. Mills,

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Mrs. William F. Milton,
Dr. Lewis R. Morris,
Newbold Morris,
Sigmund Neustadt,

A. Lanfear Norrie,
Gordon Norrie,

Mrs. Charles Tyler Olmstead,
William Church Osborn,
W. H. Perkins,

Curt C. Pfeiffer,
Gustavus A. Pfeiffer,

M. Taylor Pyne,

Miss Florence E, Quinlan,
John J. Riker,

J.C. Rodgers,

Mrs. Herbert L. Satterlee,
Dr. Reginald H. Sayre,
Edward C. Schaefer,
Mortimer L. Schiff,

Mrs. I. Blair Scribner,

George Sherman,
James Shewan,

Miss Marion Smith,
Dr. Nelson Smith,
James Speyer,

Miss Ellen J. Stone,
Albert Tag,

Paul G. Thebaud,
Charles G. Thompson,
Robert M. Thompson,
William Thorne,
Oswald W. Uhl,

Miss Anna Murray Vail,
F., T. Van Beuren,
Mrs. C. Vanderbilt,
F. M. Warburg,

John I. Waterbury,

8. D. Webb,

Dr. W. Seward Webb,
John D. Wing,

Mrs. Anna Woerishoffer.
FreLLowsHip MEMBER

William C. Ferguson.

SustaIninc MEMBERS

Miss Elizabeth Billings,

Mrs. Walter S. Brewster,

Miss Mary T. Bryce,

John Greenough,

Mrs. E. V. C. Hawkes,

O. H. Kahn,

Mrs. Frida Merz Krollpfeiffer,
Edgar L. Marston,

George Grant Mason,

William Church Osborn,

Mrs. Mabel Prell,
Edward Prizer,

Mrs. James T. Pyle,

Mrs. M. Taylor Pyne,
Mrs. Stanley Resor,

J. E. Spingarn,

Dr. Edward H. Squibb,
William R. Stewart,
Charles Strauss,

Arthur Hays Sulzberger.

ANNUAL MEMBERS

Mrs. T. J. Abbott,

E. F. Abell,

Benjamin Abert,

Miss Elisabeth Achelis,
John an

C.E.

dam
Mrs. Blbridee L. Adams,
F. B. Adams,
Henry 8S. Adams,
Maurice D. Adams,
Mrs. George B. Agnew,
J. E. Aldred
Mrs. Richard Aldrich,
Mrs. Winthrop Be oo
Mrs. W. H. Aldri
Sir Douglas os Bart.,
Mrs. John W. Alexander,
Mrs. Frederic M. Alger,
Mrs. Frederick Allen,
James F', Allen,
Philip Allen,
Dr. C. Ludwig Ambos,
Mrs. O. P. Amend,
Mrs. Alexander L. Anderson,
Mrs. Arthur M. Anderson,
P. aap ance ana
J.M. Andre
Miss Chaos ih Andrews,
D. A. Ansbacher,
Mrs. John F. Archbold,
Miss Elizabeth Arden,
Francis J. Arend,
Reuben Arkush,
Allison V. Armour
Benjamin Walworth Arnold,
B.M. Asch,
Mrs. M. Ascher,
H. A. Astlett,
Mrs. Eugene Atwood,
Mrs. E. 8S. Auchincloss,

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Mrs. E. 8. Auchineloss, Jr.,
John W. Auchincloss,
Harmon Spencer August,
Chellis A. Austin,

Charles F. Ayer,

Mrs. James C. Ayer,
Frank L. Babbott,

Jules 8. Bache,

Isaac D. Bachmann,

Mrs. Francis McNeil Bacon,
Mrs. T. L. Bailey,

Mrs. Earle Bailie,

Charles Baird,

Dr, A. Latham Baker,
Miss Charlotte S. Baker,
George F. Baker,

Mrs. George F. Baker, Jr.,
J. Stewart Baker,
Stephen Baker,

Albert H. Baldwin,
George V. N. Baldwin, Jr.,
William D. Baldwin,

Rdward L. Ballard,
Louis Bamberger,

Mrs. Thomas H. Barber,
Percival M. Barker,

Mrs. Cortlandt D. Barnes,
Joseph R. Barr,

Henry Bartels,

George P. Bartholomew,
Mrs. Philip G. Bartlett,
Mrs. H. G. Bartol,
George de Forest Barton,
Mrs. William H. Bassett,
Mrs. Martha Battle,
Thomas H. Bauchle, Jr.,

Mrs. L. P. Bayne,
Jeremiah Beall,

John D. Beals,

Mrs. Lisle R. Beardslee,
Edward E. Bechtel,
Lewis Bechtold,

Miss M. Elizabeth Beers,
Frank Begrisch, Jr.,
Hernand Behn,

Mrs, A. Frederick Behre,
Dr. Otto F. Behrend,
Walter Beinecke,

Mrs. Louis V. Bell,
Victor C. Bell,

William B. Bell,

A. Beller,

Charles Bellinger,

Mrs. Belle W. Bendheim,
Alex. Benecke,

Andre L. Benel,

Mrs. W. W. Benjamin,
J. Philip Benkard,
Bruno Benziger,

Mrs. Charles F. Berger,

Dr. Alice R. Bernheim,
Mrs. Henry J. Bernheim,
Mrs. Isaac J. Bernheim,
Charles L. Bernheimer,
Dr. Israel I. Bernstein,
Milton L. Bernstein,
Theodore Bernstein,
Philip Berolzheimer,
Edward J. Berwind,
Miss Ellen I. Betty,
Mrs. George Biddle,
Mrs. Sylvan Bier,

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Nathan I. Bijur,
Samuel H. Bijur,
Edward Lyman Bill,
Raymond Bill,

C. K. G. Billings,
Richard Billings,

Cecil Billington,
Alexander M. Bing,
Mrs. John F. Birch,
Mrs. Stephen Birch,
Miss Katherine H. Birchall,
Maynard 8. Bird,

Mrs. Charles E. Birge,
James C. Bishop,
George H. Bissinger,
Willard G. Bixby,
Mrs. Robert C. Black,
Mrs. Roger Derby Black,
Frederick S. Blackall,
H. C. Blackiston,

Mrs. Dexter Blagden,
Wendell P. Blagden,
Mrs. Emmons Blaine,
J. Insley Blair,
Clarence J. Blaker,
Isidore Blauner,

C.N. Bliss, Jr.,

Mrs. E. W. Bliss,

Miss S. D. Bliss,

Mrs. Walter P. Bliss,
Adolph Bloch,

Hon. Maurice Bloch,
Mrs. Isaae Block,
Delos A. Blodgett, 2nd,
Samuel Shipley Blood,
Mrs. M. G. Bloom,
Lewis M. Bloomingdale,
Mrs. M. J. Bluen,

Louis Bluhn,

Dr. Richard Blum,

Hugo Blumenthal,
Sidney Blumenthal,

Mrs. Albert B. Boardman,
Bradford Boardman,
Miss R. C. Boardman,
Walter Bockstahler,

Mrs. Edward C. Bodman,
Henry W. Boettger,
Robert Boettger,
Theodore Boettger,

Prof. Marston T. Bogert,
Walter L. Bogert,
William H. Bolton,

Miss Rose Bondy,

Dr. Samuel Bookman,
Mrs. E. L. Borden,

Mrs. Howard 8S. Borden,
Mrs. William Borden,
Mrs. Sydney C. Borg,
Louis Boury,

L. R. Bowden,

Miss Edith G. Bowdoin,
George T. Bowdoin,
Spotswood D. Bowers,
John Hall Bowman,
John McE. Bowman,
Mrs. Marius de Brabant,
Mrs. John C. Breckinridge,

Mrs. Jennie M. Breitenbach,

Julius M. Breitenbach,
Mrs. Mollie F. Breitenbach,
Miss Mary R. Brennan,
George P. Brett,

Mrs. Jules Breuchaud,
Edward R. Brevoort,
Frederick F. Brewster,

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George S. Brewster,

Hans V. Briesen

Mrs. James E. Briggs,

Dr. Abraham A. Brill,
John R. Brinley,

Mrs. Willard C. Brinton,
Jno. I. D. Bristol,

Miss H. Louise Britton,
Richard H. Britton,

Mrs. Richard de Wolfe Brixey,
Dr. Harlow Brooks,

Mrs. Harlow Brooks,
Thornhill Broome,

Miss Aneita D. Brown,
Mrs. Archibald M. Brown,
Charles Hilton Brown,
Dickson Q. Brown,

Edwin H. Brown,
Franklin Q. Brown,

Mrs. Franklin Q. Brown,
Mrs. George McKesson Brown,
Mrs. Harold Brown,

Mrs. H. Fletcher Brown,
Ronald K. Brown

Mrs. Thatcher M. —
Vernon C. Brown,

Warren D. Brown,

Mrs. J. Hull Browning,
Mrs. William H. Browning,
Charles E. le

Miss Emily Bue

Mrs. Henry W. fT Bucknall,
Mortimer N. Buckner,

Miss Anna J. Buechner,
Mrs. Jonathan Bulkley,

Dr. L. Dunean Bulkley,
Dr. C. V. R. Bumsted,

W. Douglas Burden,

Louis Burk,
Russell E. Burke,
Andrew F’. Burleigh

Algernon T. Burr,
Albert C. Burrage,
William F. Burt,
Donald F. Bush, Jr.,
Irving T. Bush,

Mrs. Wendell L. Bush,
Charles 8. Butler,

H. A. Caesar,

James P, Cahen,

Mrs. Leopold Cahn,

E. T. Caldwell,

Prof. Otis W. Caldwell,
Mrs. R. J. Caldwell,
Miss Emma W. Calkins,
W. R. Callender,
Henry L. Calman,
Henry L. Cammann,
Mrs. John Campbell,

Mrs. Robert James Campbell,

Henry V. Cann,

Henry B. Cannon,

H. W. Cannon,

Mrs. rae F. Cantine,
Harry Cap

Walter M. yee

Mrs. Lister Carlisle,

Arthur L, Carns,

Mrs. John D. Carscallen, 2nd

Dr. Louis Casamajor,

(407)

George B. Case,

Alfred H. Caspary,

Mrs. William E. Cassell,
Frank J. Cassidy,

Charles C. Castle,

William A. Castle,

Robert M. Catts,

Mrs, E. Gerry Chadwick,
Arthur A. Chalmers,

Miss Elizabeth Chamberlain,
Joseph P. Chamberlain,
Norman Wilmer Chandler,
Mrs. Chamberlain Chanler,
Robert W. Chanler,

Mrs. Winthrop Chanler,
Mrs. Charles Merrill Chapin,
Miss Cornelia Van A. Chapin,
Miss Maria Bowen Chapin,
Mrs. Clarence E. Chapman,
Mrs. Edwin N. Chapman,
John Jay Chapman,

José Edward Chaves,

H. Durant Cheever,

Mrs. George L. Cheney,
Miss Mary Cheney,

Paul H. Cheney,

Noah Chertoff,

8. W. Childs,

George E. Chisholm,

B. Ogden Chisolm,

Mrs. Joseph H. Choate,
Miss Mabel Choate,

Perey Chubb,

Charles T. Church,
Richard N. L. Church,
John Claflin,

Miss E. Mabel Clark,

F. Ambrose Clark,

Mrs. George Halford Clark,

James L. Clark,
William Clark,

E. A. 8. Clarke,

Miss Florence Clarke,
Lewis L. Clarke,

Mrs. Banyer Clarkson,
Albert Clayburgh,

H. M. Clements,

Mrs. Newcomb Cleveland,
A. Polhemus Cobb,

G. D. Cochran

Mrs. Edward 7. Cockroft,
Miss Mary T. Cockroft,
Edmund Coffin,
William 8. Coffin,

E. W. Coggeshall,
William N. Cohen,
Mrs. Rufus Cole,
Charles B. Colebrook,
Miss Fannie Coleman,
Mrs. Russell Colgate,
William Colgate,
Barron G. Collier,
Mrs. Robert J. Collier,
Miss Julia Collins,
Richard C. Colt,

Mrs. Richard C. Colt,
Miss Mary Compton,
Martin Conboy,
Frederick H. Cone,
Herman Conheim,
Louis D. Conley,

Miss Katherine A. Conner,
Mrs. E. C. Converse,
H. Ernest Conwell,
J.N. Conyngham,

(408)

Dr. Robert A. Cooke,
Robert Anthony Cooke,
James Bliss Coombs,
Marin LeBrun Cooper,
Mrs. Marin LeBrun Cooper,
Mrs. Floyd-Stewart Corbin,
George Eustis Corcoran,
H. C. Cornwall,
J, George Costello,
Mrs. Charles Henry Coster,
Mrs. Frank A. E. Cott,
Mrs. Winthrop Cowdin,
Mrs. Clarkson Cowl,
J. Howard Cowperthwait,
Mrs. Lewis J. Cox
Mrs. John E. Coyle,
Miss Louise G. Crabbe,
Charles R. Crane,
George F, Crane,
Mrs. Zenas Crane,
William Crawford,
Miss Mary C. Crimmuins,
Mrs. Thomas Crimmins,
George A. Crocker, Jr.,
Mrs. W. H. Crocker,
Rev. W. T. Crocker,
Dr, William Crocker,
James W. Cromwell,
Mrs. E. P. Cronkhite,
Miss Mary R. Cross,
W. Redmond Cross,
W. D. Crouch,
R. alee Crowell,

an Seymour Crystal,
Mrs, ee Crystal,
Mrs. Joseph F. Cullman,
Mrs. E. B. Currier,
F. Kingsbury Curtis,

(409)

B. A. Cushman,

Paul Cushman,

Mrs. Fulton Cutting,

R. Fulton Cutting,

Miss Eleanor De Graff Cuyler,
Mrs. Chester Dale,
Frederic A. Dallett,
Clarence 8. Dame,
Harold A. Danne,
Frederick M. Davenport, Jr.,
Mrs. Ira Davenport,
DeWitt A. Davidson,

J. Clarence Davies,

Mrs. Ora Harkness Davis,
Mrs. R. C. Davis,

Mrs. Henry P. Davison,
Clarence M. Day,

Joseph P. Day.

Mrs. Walter i Day,
Henry Dazien,

D. B. Dearborn, Jr.,

Mrs. Hiram H. Decker,
Henry L. de Forest,
Johnston de Forest,

Dr. Robert W. de Forest,
Mrs. Robert W. de Forest,
John F’. Degener, Jr.,
Mrs. Carl A. de Gersdorff,
Mrs. G. de Hasperg,

Mrs. Carlos de Heredia,
Walter H. Deiches,

Mrs. Sidney Gilder de Kay,
George T. Delacorte, Jr.,
Lewis L. Delafield, Jr.,
Lyman Delano,

Moreau Delano,

William Adams Delano,
William C. DeLanoy,

Edwin H. mae

John B. Den

Mrs. Vivian =e De Pinna,
J. i. De Rosset,

Thomas C. Desmond,
Julian F, Detmer,

Lee Deutsch,

Mrs. W. B. Devereux, Jr.,
Miss Harriet N. Devotion,
Fairman R. Dick,

Mrs. Watson B. Dickerman,
Mrs. Charles D. Dickey,
Mrs. A. H. Diebold,

George H. Diehl,

Charles F. Dieterich,

H. O, Dill,

Dr. William E. Diller,

Mrs. Cleveland E. Dodge,
Mrs. Cleveland H. Dodge,
Mrs. Murray W. Dodge,

Mrs. Robert L. Dodge,
Edward L. Doheny,

John Louis Dohme,

Bayard Dominick,

Gayer G. Dominick,

L. W. Dommerich,

Otto L. Dommerich,

Mrs. John W. Donaldson,
Gustave Donat,

Mrs. Ruger Donoho,

Mrs. Charles Doscher,

Henry Doscher,

Mrs. Frank Nelson Doubleday,
Miss Elizabeth Douglas,

Mrs. George William Douglas,
Walter Douglas,

Joseph Dowd,
William J. gia
ae Dow:

rs. B. F. eer
: Pr. Dribben,
Rev. William J. Duane, S. J.,
Mrs. Matthew B. DuBois
F. L. Du Bosque,
Mrs. William B. Dudley,
Mrs. Edward K. Dunham,
Dr. Vining C. Dunlap,
H. F. du Pont,
Pierre S. du Pont,
Mrs. P. S. du Pont,”
Mrs. T. Coleman du Pont,
Herbert Durand,
Mrs. Theresa Mayer Durlach,
Mrs. Beatrice Durlacher,
Miss Amy C, Duryee,
Mrs. Maitland Dwight,
Mrs. Winthrop Dwight,
Walter Gurnee Dyer,
Joseph N. Early,
Mrs. Lucius R. Eastman,
Mrs. Frederick H. Eaton,
Mrs. Henry Ware Eaton,
Henry J. Eckstein,
Mrs. James A. Eddy,
Mrs. Charles N. Edge,
Thomas C. Edmonds,
Mrs. Franklin Edson,
Mrs. Harold T. Edwards,
Mrs. J. 8. Ehrich,
Mrs. Ernest Ehrmann,
Karl Hilers,
August Eimer,
Max Eisman,
Vladimir Eitingon,

(410)

Mrs. Robert G. Elbert,
Howard Elliott,

Mrs. J. Magee Elsworth,
Miss Lydia F. Emmet,
Robert Temple Emmet,
Mrs. Arthur B. Emmons,
Mrs. William E. English,
R. Erbsloh,

Albert J. Erdmann,

Mrs. Frank H. Erisman,
Miss Katherine V. R. Erving,
Henry Esberg,

8. AL. elle

A. W. Eva

Mrs. ee Fabbri,
Eberhard Faber,

Harris Fahnestock,
Kenneth C. Faile,

G. Failla,

Miss Natalie Fairbairn,
Arthur 8. Fairchild,
Benjamin T. Fairchild,
Mrs. Charles 8. Fairchild,
Mrs. De Witt Clinton Falls,
Mrs. J. Wells Farley,
Mrs. Max Farrand,

Mrs. Louise Fatton,

Dr. St. George Fechtig,
Mrs. Joseph Fuller Feder,
Leo Feist,

Herman Feldman,

E. Fellman,

Miss Marion E. Fenton,
Mrs. Henry Ferguson,
Louis Ferguson,
Mansfield Ferry,

Mrs. Thatcher Feustman,
Frank H. Filley,

Oliver Filley,

Prof. Hugh Findlay,
Mrs. Carl Fischer, Jr.,
Mrs. Hamilton Fish,
Frederick T. Fisher,
Miss Ruth B. Fisher,
Samuel H. Fisher,
Benjamin F. Fitch,
Mrs. Benson Flagg,
Harry Harkness Flagler,
Horace C. Flanigan,
Fred T. Fleitmann,
Harry A. Florsheim,
Edward H. Floyd-Jones,
Julius H. B. Fogg,
Herbert Fordham,
Mrs. G. Lisle Forman,
Mrs. Harry Forsyth,
James B, A. Fosburgh,
Pell W. Foster,

W. F. Foulk,

Carl H. Fowler,

Robert L. Fowler, Jr.,
Frederick P. Fox,
George I. Fox,

Mrs. Irma A. Fox,

Mrs. M. J. Fox,

Mrs. William Fox,
Joseph 8. Frank,

M. Lloyd Frank,

R. A. Franks,
Alexander V. Fraser,
Mrs. Charles D. Fraser,
Mrs, George C. Fraser,
Miss Jane K. Fraser,
Miss 8, Grace Fraser,
Mrs. Leopold Frederick,

Mrs. Charles D. Freeman,

(411)

Mrs. Frederick Frelinghuysen,

Mrs, Childs Frick,

H. G. Friedman,

Mrs. Angelika W. Frink,
A.S. Frissell,

John W. Frothingham,
John H. Fry,

Felix Fuld,

John H. cag

E. A. Fun

Mrs, E. V. Gabriel,
Eugenio Galban,
Albert Gallatin,

amble
Mrs. Hoga . Gans,
Mrs. Curtiss Gardiner,
Francis P. Garvin,
Mrs. Elbert H. Gary,
Mrs. Walter Geer,
S. Gernsback,
Fred P. Geyer,
Prof. William J. Gies,
Mrs. William J. Gies,
R. L. Giffen,
J. Waldron Gillespie,
William P. Gilmour,
Mrs. Bernard F. Gimbel,
Mrs. Isaac Gimbel,
A. I. Gladstone,
James E. Gledhill,
John M. Glenn,
John J. Glynn,
Mrs. E. D. Godfrey,
Harold Godwin,
Mrs. Mary R. Goelet,
Dr. 8. Ormond Goldan,
Julius Goldman,
Dr. Alfred N, Goldsmith,

(412)

Frederick Goldsmith, Archibald A. Gulick,

Jonah J. Goldstein, Mrs. Charles 8. Guthrie,

Louis Goldstein William D. Guthrie,

Abraham L. Goldstone: Ralph W. Gwinn,

Mrs. M. L. Goldstone, Miss Edith Haas,

Philip J. Goodhart, John G. Haas,

James C. Goodrich, John A. Hadden, Jr.,

Philip L. Goodwin, John H. Hail, Jr.,

Walter L. Goodwin, Mrs. John = Hall, IJr.,

Mrs. Philip Gossler, M. J. Hallig:

Edwin Gould, Mrs. Charles W. Halsey,

M. K. Goulder, William Hamann,

Mrs. Hugh J. Grant, L. Gordon Hamersley,

Joseph W. Grant, Miss Elizabeth S. Hamilton,

Mrs. William Steele Gray, Jr., Lester A. Hamilton,

Miss Eleanor M. Greacen, Mrs. Morgan Hamilton,

Mrs. Walter Greacen, Mrs. Harry L. Hamlin,

Mrs. C. Douglass Green, Lyman P. Hammond,

Mrs. Frederick Voorhis Green, Percy L. Hance,

Mrs. Robert C. Green, George F, Handel,

Jerome D. Greene, Ferdinand Hansen,

Miss Mary M. Greenwood, Vivian Harcourt,

Mrs. William A. Greer, Mrs. W. P. Hardenbergh,

Henry E. Gregory, William B. Har

William M. Greve, James G. Hardy,

Mrs. John Gribbel, Miss Josephine T. Harriot,

Charles E. Griffin, Mrs. Benjamin Harrison,
", Griffin, Milton W. Harrison,

Miss Susan D. Griffith, Dr, Allis F. Haseall,

E. Morgan Grinnell, Mrs. Jacob Hasslacher,

George Bird Grinnell, Joshua A. Hatfield,

Mrs. William E. 8S. Griswold, Dr. Louis Hauswirth,

Otto Gruhn, Henry O. Havemeyer,

J.J. Grullemans, T. A. Havemeyer,

William C. Gruner, Mrs. Theodore A. Havemeyer,

Mrs. E. C. Gude, J. Woodward uae

Louis Guenther, Carroll Haye:

Mrs. Ralph Guinzburg, Mrs, William “Valzah Hayes,

Miss Caroline C. Haynes,
William de F. Haynes,
David Hays,

Rowland Hazard,
Mrs. R. G. Hazard,
George H. Hazen,
Mrs. W. R. Hearst,
Royal V. Heath,
Charles Hecht,

George C. Heck,

Dr. W. A. Heckard,
Henry Heide, Jr.,
Arthur Heine,

John Heitmann,

Henry Hellman,

Mrs. George A. Helme,
Mrs. Albert C. Hencken,
Hancke Hencken,

A. I. Henderson,

Charles Henderson,

Mrs. E. C. Henderson,
Miss Margaret Hendrie,
Hon. Joseph P. Hennessy,
Philip W. Henry,

Mrs. A. Barton Hepburn,

Mrs. Frederick T. Hepburn,

Mrs. Henry 8. Herman,
B. F. Hermann,

Frank J. Hermes,

W. L. Hernstadt,
Andrew H. Hershey,
Samuel A. Herzog,
Arthur M. Hess,

Mrs. Cooper Hewitt,
Mrs. Henry B. Heylman,
Henry Hicks,

(413)

Mrs. James J. Higginson,
Frederick Trevor Hill,
George Washington Hill,
Mrs. James Norman Hill,
Mrs. Robert Hill,

Miss Anne Hinchman,
Miss Blanche Hirsch,
George E. Hite, Jr.,
Harold K. Hochschild,
Walter Hochschild,
Anton G. Hodenpyl,

Mrs. Frederick C. Hodgdon,
Miss Eleanor Hodges,
Mrs. Joseph M. Hodson,
Mrs. Richard March Hoe,
Mrs. Robert Hoe,

Mrs. Robert Hoe, Jr.,
Albert L. Hoffman,

Miss Mary U. Hoffman,
Mrs. Ramsey Hoguet,
Mrs. Edward Holbrook,
Mrs. L. Dean Holden,
Mrs. Christian R. Holmes,
Charles W. Holton,

A. Holzman,

Elkan Holzman,

Mrs. Elon Huntington Hooker,

Charles H. Hoole,

Mrs. George B. Hopkins,

Ernest Hopkinson,

Frederick S. Hoppin,

Horace Mann Elementary
School,

Nathan C. House,

C. J. Housman,

Thomas H. Howard,

Miss Lucy Howe,

Richard F. Howe,

M. D. Howell,

Miss Anne Hoyt,

John Sherman Hoyt,

Miss V. 8S. Hoyt,

Lewis McB. Hubbard,
Mrs. Anna Huber,

Arthur B. Hull,

Mrs. Thomas Hunt,
Jeremiah Hunter,

Henry 8S. Huntington,
Mrs. R. P. Huntington,
George F. Hurd,

Miss Margaret C. Hurlbut,
Mrs. William A. Hutcheson,
H. D. Hutchins,

R. G. Hutchins,

Mrs. Ida May Hutchison,
Mrs. Edward F. Hutton,
Miss Elsie C. Hutton,

. F. Hyde,
Mrs. Clarence M. Hyde,
Henry St. John Hyde,
Mrs, F. N. Inglehart,
Edwin W. Inslee,
Stanley M. Isaacs,
Adrian Iselin, Jr.,
Arthur Iselin,
C. Oliver Iselin,
Miss Georgine Iselin,
Mrs. John H. Iselin,
William E. Iselin,
Mrs. William E. Iselin,
Miss Flora E. Isham,
William B. Isham,
A. C. Israel,
Dr. Leopold Jaches,
Frederick W. Jackson,
Samuel K. Jacobs,

(414)

John 8. Jacobus,
A. Jaeckel,
Mrs. Robert Jaffray,

; ames,
Mrs. Arthur Curtiss James,
Mrs. Henry James,
Mrs. Walter B. James,
Mrs. Wortham James,
E. C. Jameson,
Miss Martha A. Jamison,
Mrs. Alfred Jaretski,
Alfred W. Jenkins,
Miss Laura Jenkins,
Mrs. Robert I. Jenks,
Mrs. William P. Jenks,
O. G. Jennings,
Robert E. Jennings,
Walter Jennings,
George S. Jephson,
Mrs. Bradish Johnson,
Gilbert H. Johnson,
J. Herbert Johnston,
Francis C. Jones,
Rodney Wilcox Jones,
Mrs. 8. Ralph Jones,
Mrs. T. Catesby Jones
Louis M. Josepthal,
Henry M. Kahle,
Mrs. Julie Kahle,
Felix E. Kahn,
Mrs. Otto H. Kahn,
Mrs. Delancey Kane,
Frank E. Karelsen, Jr.,
Miss Alice Kauser,
Mrs. Charles Kaye,
Mrs. H. F. Kean,
Mrs. Frank Browne Keech,
A. H. Kehoe,

Henry F. Keil,

Mrs. William W. Kelchner,

Nicholas Kelley,

Charles W. Kellogg,

Mrs. F. R. Kellogg,

Dr. Howard A. Kelly,

James Irving Kendall,

Mrs. George Kennan,

Mrs. H. Van Rensselaer
Kennedy,

John D. Kennedy,

Mrs. John 8. Kennedy,

Mrs. Sinclair Kennedy,

Major William Kennelly,

Miss Martha M. Kennerly,

David Keppel,

Chichester C. Kerr,

John B. Kerr,

J. Keur,

S. E. Kilner,

Van Evrie Kilpatrick,

Abel King,

Miss Ethel King,

Rufus King,

Mrs. D. P. Kingsford,

Darwin P. Kingsley,

Morris Kinney,

Kip,
Dr. William B. Kirkham,
Michael Kirtland,
Mrs. Gustav E. Kissel,
Alfred J. Kistler,
D. Emil Klein,
Julius Klugman,
Dr. Arnold aes
W. J. Knap
Mrs. cia EB. Knoblauch,

(415)

Roland F. Knoedler,

Mrs. Arthur E. Knox,
Frederick William Kobbe,
Hon. Edward R. Koch,
Mrs. 8. H. Kohn,

Mrs. Otto Kohnstamm,
Alexander Konta,

Dr. Samuel J. Kopetsky,

Mrs. Claude Kress,
Samuel H. Kress,
Richard G. Krueger,
George L. Kumpf,

Mrs. Henry R. Kunhardt,
Dr. George F. Kunz,

A. H. Kursheedt,
Anthony R. Kuser,

Mrs. John L. Kuser, Jr.,
Adolf Kuttroff,

Dr. William 8. Ladd,
Arthur F. Lafrentz,

Mrs. James L. Laidlaw,
Rev. Walter Laidlaw,
Mrs. Gerard B. Lambert,
Mrs. Samuel W. Lambert,
Mrs. J. H. Lancashire,
Dr. Samuel H. Lanchner,
Frank Landi,

Francis G. Landon,

Mrs. Edward V. Z. Lane,
Mrs. Carl Lang,

Mrs. Woodbury G. Langdon,
Mrs. Valeria Langeloth,
Mrs. John J. Lapham,
Lewis H. Lapham,

Mrs. Chester B. Lawrence,

John Burling Lawrence,

Miss Margaret Lawrence,

Mrs. Richard W. Lawrence,

Henry Goddard Leach,

Lederle Antitoxin
Laboratories,

Prof. Frederic 8. Lee,

Mrs. George B. Lee,

Dr. Marguerite T. Lee,

R. C. Leffingwell,

Mrs. George Legg,

James M. Lehmaier,

Mrs. Harold M. Lehman,

8. M. Lehman,

Emil Leitner,

Miss Maud Aguilar Leland,

Emil Lenning,

Dr. L. M. Lesser,

A. Edward Lester,

Miss M. Elizabeth Lester,

William C. Lester,

Miss mah Bispham Levey,

George Levi,
B. E. Levy.
Louis nee Levy,
Mrs. Louis 8. Levy,
Willy Levy,

. Lewis,
Adolph Lewisohn,
Mrs. Allan Lexow,
Alfred F. Lichtenstein,
Oscar R. Lichtenstein,
Dr. Charles C. Lieb,
Mrs. Julius Liebman,
E. K. Lincoln,
Mrs. Frederick W. Lincoln,
Mrs. Erasmus Lindley,
Abraham Lipke,

(416) |

Arthur H. Lippincott,
Frederick J. Lisman,
Lucius N, Littauer,
Frank L. Liveright,
Miss Anna P. Livingston,
Henry 8S. Livingston,
Mrs. Francis G. Lloyd,
Mrs. Horatio Gates Lloyd,
Wilton Lloyd-Smith,
Mrs. William C. Lobenstine,
Mrs. A. H. Lockett,
Mrs. Frederick R. Lockwood,
Mrs. Luke Vincent Lockwood,
Mrs. Mary Isabel Lockwood,
Mrs. William A. Lockwood,
Homer L, Loomis,
Edward C. Lord,
Lord & Burnham Co.,
P. Lorillard, Jr.,
Mrs. A. A. Low,
Ethelbert I. Low,
Mrs. Seth Low,

olomon Lowenstein,
Mrs. Clarence M. Lowes,
Clarence Lown,
Albert E. Lownes,
C. G. Lueder,
E. L. Lueder,
Thatcher T. P. Luquer,
Prof. Graham Lusk,
John C. Lyeth,
J. M. Richardson Lyeth,
Miss Grace G. Lyman,
Mrs. John H. Lynch,
Milton A. Maas,
James B. Mabon,
John F, MacEnulty,
Clarence H. Mackay,

Kenneth K. Mackenzie,
Mrs. Charles F. MacLean,
Mrs. J. N. Macy,

V. Everit Macy,

Mrs. John 8. Maeder,

F. Robert Mager,

Mrs. J. H. Maghee,

Paul Mahler,

Edward Mallinckrodt, Jr.,
Mrs. Robert Mallory, Jr.,
L. William Malone,

W. A. Manda,

Dr. Morris Manges,
Howard Mansfield,

Mrs. H. Edward Manville,
Miss Delia W. Marble,
John Markle,

Alfred E. Marling,

Mrs. Allan Marquand,
John B. Marsh,

Miss Emma L. Martin,
Frank Gilbert Martin,
Mrs. Horace H. Martin,
Mrs. R. W. Martin,
Walton Martin,

Walter R. Marvin,
Charles N. Mason,

James Mason,

Samuel Mason,

William J. Matheson,

H. W. Maxwell,

George O. May,
Bernhard Mayer,

Mrs. John Adams Mayer,
Lucius W. Mayer,

Mrs. R. de L. Mayer,

Dr. D. H. McAlpin,

Mrs. D. H. MeAlpin,

(417)

George McAneny,

Dr. George C. McBride,

W. Peck McCaffray,
George V. A. McCloskey,
Miss Alice McCollister,
William Randolph McComb,
Prof. Nelson G. McCrea,
Henry Forbes McCreery,
Mrs. Alfred McEwen,

Mrs. Paul McEwen,

Mrs. John R. McGinley,
Mrs. Robert T. MeGusty,
Edward A. McIilhenny,
Tompkins McIlvaine,

Mrs. Arabella Ogden McKee,
Mrs, Charles W. McKelvey,
Henry P. McKenney,

Le Roy MeKim,

Mrs. James McLean,
Edward F. McManus,
Francis W. McMillan,
Wilham MeNair,

Mrs. T. M. R. Meikelham,
Morton H. Meinhard,

Mrs. 8. Stanwood Mencken,
Mrs. William R. Mercer,
John L. Merrill,

I. J. Merritt,

Herman A. Metz,

David Metzger,

Arthur 8. Meyer,

Charles G. Meyer,

Eugene Meyer, Jr.,
Fredrik Fischer Meyer,
Mrs. Rasmus M. Michelsen,
Dr. John C. R. Milano,

Mrs. Albert G. Milbank,
Jeremiah Milbank,

John G. Milburn,

Hoyt Miller,

Irving Miller,

Leverett S. Miller,

W. W. Miller,

Mrs. Regina V. G. Millhiser,
M. F. Millikan,

Mrs. Gerrish Milliken,
Dr, Adelaide Mills,
Henry E. Mills,

Levis W. Minford,
Grafton W. Minot,

Mrs. John W. Minturn,
Mrs. Clarence B. Mitchell,
Mrs. John Murray Mitchell,
R. Milton Mitchill, Jr.,
Walter Mitschke,

Mrs. John H. Mohlman,
George A. Molleson,
James Molliso:

Dr. Adolph Monaelesser,
John Monks,

H. de la Montagne, Jr.,
Mrs. H. BE. Montgomery,
Robert H. Montgomery,
Barrington Moore,
Benjamin Moore,
Clement Moore,

Miss Helen Moore,

J.C. Moore,

Mrs. Kenneth W. Moore,
L. Porter Moore,

Mrs. Paul Moore,

Mrs. Thomas L. Moore,
William 8. Moore,
Victor Morawetz,

(418)

B. Mordecai,

Miss Anne Morgan,

Miss C. L. Morgan,

E. D. Morgan,

Richard J. Morgan,

Wm. Fellowes Morgan,

Mrs. Henry Morgenthau,

J.C. Morgenthau,

Irs. Dave Hennen Morris,

Rev. D. B. 8. Morris,

Dr. Robert T. Morris,

William Morris,

Mrs. Charles King Morrison,

Mrs. Mary C. Morrison,

Dwight W. Morrow,

Mrs. A. Henry Mosle,

Dr. Charles R. Motak,

Mrs. John B. Mott,

Edwin H. Mulford,

John P. Munn,

Frank J. Murphy,

G. M. P. Murphy,

Mrs. Hugh A. Murray,

Mrs. John F. Murray,

Mrs. T. Morris Murray,

Fred A. Muschenheim,

George A. Mussmann,

Sol Mutterperl,

Mme. Elie Nadelman,

Harold Nathan,

National Association, Boards
of Pharmacy

Mrs. Elsie M. B. Naumberg,

Mrs. William J. Neal,

Mrs. Henry Necarsulmer,

Dr. Arthur E. Neergaard,

A. G. Nesbitt,

Mrs. 8. Neustadt,

Mrs. Russell H. Nevins,
Miss Edith Newbold,
Frederic R. Newbold,
Mrs. Moses Newborg,
Miss Elizabeth T. Nicholas,
George D. Nicholas,

Mrs. Acosta Nichols,
William B. Nichols,

Mrs. William G. Nichols,
William H. Nichols,

Mrs. Hoffman Nickerson,
Mrs. Benjamin Nicoll,
William Nilsson,

Dr. Charles Norris,

Miss Fanny Norris,
George Notman,

Jansen Noyes,

L. W. Nuttall,

Miss Dorothy Oak,
Morgan J. O’Brien,

Mrs. Adolph Obrig,
Adolph 8. Ochs,

John Offerman,

Mrs. Clinton Ogilvie,
Mrs. Ponsonby Ogle,

P Ohmeis,

Miss Mary Oleott,

Elam Ward Olney,

Lee E. Olwell,

John B. O’Reilly,

Mrs. Malcolm H. ‘Ormshee,
William C. Orr,

Mrs. Charles E. Orvis,
Prof. Henry F. Osborn,
Hiram Osborn,

Mrs. William Church Osborn,
Charles Otis,

Mrs. George L. Otis,

(419)

Charles K. Ovington,

Miss Elizabeth H. Packard,
Mrs. Eugene H. Paddock,
Mrs. Jean Aitken Paddock,
A. E, Merriman Paff,

Mrs. Augustus G. Paine,
Mrs. John W. Paris,
Henry Parish,

Mrs. F. A. Park,

Hobart J. Park,

Mrs. Hobart J. Park,
Frank 8. Parker,

Junius Parker,

Mrs. Willard Parker, Jr.,
Winthrop Parker,

Elton Parks,

Mrs. Edgerton Parsons,
Mrs. Joseph Parsons,

Miss Katherine de B. Parsons,
Miss Mary Parsons,
Schuyler L. Parsons,

W. U. Parsons,

Mrs. Joseph Paterno,
Rufus L. Patterson,

T. H. Hoge Patterson,
Mrs. Foster Paul,

J.R. Paull,

Adolf I Pavenstedt,

Ars, Charles 8. Payson,
Mrs. Horace E. Payson,
Mrs. Charles A. Peacock,
E. Pennington Pearson,
Mrs. Frederick Pearson,
Dr. Herbert D. Pease,
Charles E. Peck,

William Halsey Peck,

Mrs. Wheeler H. Peckham,
Dr. James Pedersen,

Mrs. Sarah G. T. Pell,
B. Henry Pelzer,

Miss Isabelle Pendleton,
J.C. Penney Foundation,
Mrs. Paul Geddes Pennoyer,
Comtesse de Périgny,
George W. Perkins,
Miss Hattie W. Perkins,
Mrs. F. A. C. Perrine,
Mrs. Charles G. Peters,
W.R. Peters,

Walter Peterson,

Carl Schurz Petrasch,
Mrs. Car] S. Petrasch,
Mrs. William C. Peyton,
Arthur Pforzheimer,
Carl H. Pforzheimer,
Walter Pforzheimer,
Mrs. Sheffield Phelps,
Henry Phipps,

W. Paul Pickhardt,
Winslow S. Pierce,

J. Fred Pierson,

Mrs. Walter Pierson,
Mrs. J. O. H. Pitney,

Mrs. Charles Howard Platt,
Mrs. Frank H. Platt,

John Platt,

Edward Plaut,

Alfred F. Poggenburg,
Frank L. Polk,

Mrs. Theodore L. Pomeroy,
Charles Lane Poor,

Mrs. James Harper Poor,
Walter 8S. Poor,

James E. Pope,

(420)

Mrs. William C. Popper,
Alexander J. Porter,

Mrs. Frank B. Porter, Jr.,
H. Hobart Porter,

Louis H. Porter,

Mrs. William H. Porter,
Abram 8S. Post,

Miss Blanche Potter,

Mrs. Frank H. Potter,
Mrs. Halle S. Potter,

Dr. Lillian Delger Powers,
John H. Powrie,

Rev. Dr. William Prall,
Mrs. C. H. Pratt,

Mrs. Herbert Lee Pratt,
Mrs. John T. Pratt,
Edgar S. Pretzfeld,

Mrs. E. F. Price,

Julius Prince,

Mrs. Julius Prince,

H. B. Prindle,

R. L. Pritchard,

Mrs. T. P. Prout,

Mrs. Robert C. Pruyn,
Miss Mary Stuart Pullman,
Miss Eva C. Putney,
Robert Pyle,

Percy R. Pyne,

Percy R. Pyne, Jr.,

L. M. Rabinowitz,

Mrs. E. L. Rafferty,

Mrs. J. A. Rainier,
Samuel Raisler,

Mrs. Francis F. Randolph,
Stanley Ranger,

William T. Rasmus,
Eugene A. Rau,

G. B. Raymond,

H. E. Raymond,

Mrs. Henry R. Rea,
Newbury Frost Read,
Mrs. William A. Read,
Robert C. Ream,

Mrs. Louis J. Reckford,
Miss Emily Redmond,
Mrs. Augusta Bliss Reese,
Mrs. Whitelaw Reid,

E. Allan Reinhardt,
Franklin Remington,
William Remsen,
Robert Rennie,

William Rennult,
Samuel W. Reyburn,
Mrs. H. Newell Reynolds,
Mrs. Lyman Rhoades,
Miss N. Rhoades,

Oran W. Rice,

Miss Elvine Richard,
Harold C. Richard,
Osear L. Richard,

Miss Edith G. Richards,
Ellis G. Richards,

Miss Sara Lippincott Richards,

Mrs. Albert S. Ridley,
Bernard Riegel,

Mrs. Charles A. Riegelman,
Mrs. Samuel Riker, Jr.,
Mrs. J. W. Riley,

Dr. A. I. Ringer,

F, Bayard Rives,

G. Barclay Rives,

Dr. William C. Rives,
Miss Emeline Roach,
Ira B. Robbins,

Mrs. Dudley Roberts,
Louis J. Robertson,

(421)

A. G. Robinson,

Beverley R. Robinson,
Mrs. Douglas Robinson,
Mrs. Joseph Peck Robinson,
Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
Percy A. Rockefeller,

F. L. Rodewald,

Edward H. Roehrs,

John Roger,

Hubert E. Rogers,

Mrs. James Gamble Rogers,
Henry 8. Rokenbaugh,

A. J. Rolle,

Nicholas Roosevelt,

W. Emilen Roosevelt,

Mrs. W. Emlen Roosevelt,
Elihu Root,

N. Jonsson Rose,

Miss Rosalie Rosenberg,
Mrs. Henry C. Ross,
Philip J. Ross,

Mrs. Reuben J. Ross,

Mrs. Max J. H. Rossbach,
Miss Sara Rossmoore,
Albert Rothbart,

Peter W. Rouss,

Mrs. George Rowland,
John M. Royall,

C. H. Ruddock,

William Edwin Rudge,

J. Louis A. Ruhl,

Justus Ruperti,

Jacob Ruppert,

Miss Marie L. Russell,
John Barry Ryan,
William J. Ryan,

Arthur Ryle,

Miss Julia Ryle,

(422)

Harry Sachs,

Samuel Sachs,

Reuben Sadowsky,

Mrs. Henry W. Sage,
Mrs. Walter J. Salmon,
Charles E. Sampson,

Mrs. Ralph Samuel,
Mitchell Samuels,

H. T. Sands,

H. Sanhagen,

F. A. Sarg,

Miss Georgiana W. Sargent,
Herbert L. Satterlee,
Mrs. Herbert L. Satterlee,
Mrs. Thomas E. Satterthwaite,
Mrs. Theodore Sattler,
Goddard Weld Saunders,
William M. Savin,

Oliver H. Sawyer,
Hermann Schaaf,
Frederick Miiller Schall,
Jacob Schapiro,

John Scheepers,

Anton Schefer,

O. Boto Schellberg,

Miss Florence L. Schepp,
Dr. William Jay Schieffelin,
Charles A. Schieren,
Gustave H. Schiff,
Max-Schling,Inc.,

Miss Jane E. Schmelzel,
D. Schnakenberg,

Val P. Schneider,

Ewald H. Schniewind,
Henrich Schniewind, Jr.,
Carl Schoen,

W. D. Scholle,

William Schongalla,

Mrs. Anthony Schulte,
Richard Schuster,

Mrs. C. Albert Schwab,
C. M. Schwab,

Miss Emily Schwab,
Raymond J. Schweizer,
Miss Marion Scofield,
Mrs. Frank Hall Scott,
Miss Grace Scoville,
Herbert Scoville,

Robert Scoville,

Mrs. Arthur H. Seribner,
Edward M. Seudder,
Hewlett Scudder,

Mrs. Townsend Seudder,
Mrs. Wallace M. Scudder,
Mrs. Samuel Seabury,
Sven Sealander,

Mrs. Joseph H. Seaman,
Dr. Louis Livingston Seaman,
Alonzo B. See,

Edwin Sefton,

Prof. Edwin R. A. Seligman,
Mrs. Isaac N. Seligman,
Jefferson Seligman,

Mrs. George H. Semken,
Mrs. Frederick W. Senff,
Mrs. Alfred Seton,

Frank G. Shattuck,

Mrs. Quincey A. Shaw,
Finley J. Shepard,

Miss Corinne A. Sherman,
David Shiman,

Mrs. Arthur L. Shipman,
Mrs. Ellen Shipman,
George W. Short,

Hiram W. Sibley,

Mrs. Reinhard Siedenburg,

Benjamin Siegel,

Mrs. J. Siegel,

Samuel M. Siegman,
Simon Siegman,
Benjamin F’. Simmons,
Charles H. Simmons,
Alfred L. Simon,

Mrs. Robert Simon,
Robert E. Simon,

Sidney P. Simpson,
William Worth Sisson,
Mrs. Roswell Skeel, Jr.,
Mrs. Alburn E. aria
Francis Louis Slad

Mrs. E. Frederick See.
Benson B. Sloan,

Samuel Sloan,

Mrs. William Sloane,
Thomas W. Slocum,
Thomas Smidt,

Daniel Smiley,

C. Harold Smith

Mrs. Charles Herbert Smith,
Charles R. Smith,

Mrs. Charles Stewart Smith,
Daniel Cranford Smith,
Miss Fanny A. Smith,
James B. Smith,

Mrs. Milton Smith, Jr.,
Mrs. R. Penn Smith, Jr.,
Mrs. John W. Smyth,
Frederick Snare,

Mrs. Elmer J. Snow,
Frederick A. Soldwedel,
Levings H. Somers,
Phineas Sondheim,

Miss Emily 8. Spackman,
Mrs. H. B. Spalding,

(423)

Mrs. Edward W. Sparrow,
Mrs. Gino C. Speranza,
Edgar Speyer,

Mrs. B. G. Spiegelberg,
Charles Edward Spratt,
Mrs. William F. Stafford,
A. T. Stanley,

Howard W. Starr,

E, Vail Stebbins,

Mrs. J. Rich Steers,

Mrs, Mary P. Eno Steffanson,
Dr. Charles Steffens,
Louis Steinam,

William H. Steinkamp,
William R. Steinway,

Olin J. Stephens,
Roderick Stephens,

Mrs. Louis Victor Sterling,
Benjamin Stern,

Mrs. Edward R. Stettinius,
Mrs. Byam K. Stevens,
Mrs. Frederic W. Stevens,
Mrs. Weld M. Stevens,
Mrs. George J. Stier,

Miss Bessie Stillman,

Mrs. John Stilwell,

Mrs. Carl Stoeckel,
Charles H. Stoll,

Alfred W. Stone,

Charles A. Stone,

Robert G. Stone,

Mrs. Charles H. Stout,
Mrs. M. Stransky,

Albert T. Strauch,

H. Grant Straus,

Mrs. Nathan Straus, Jr.,
Roger W. Straus,

Albert Strauss,

Mrs. Daisy Strauss,
Frederick Strauss,
Martin Strauss,
Samuel ae
William H. Str

Miss Florence 7 Pedant:

Mrs. Gustaf Stromberg,
John R. Strong,
Richard A. Strong,
Mrs. Theron G. Strong,
Joseph Stroock,

Mrs. Pauline 8. Stroock,
Francis Lee Stuart,
Miss Susan M. Sturges,
Frank K. Sturgis,
Henry S. Sturgis,
Robert S. Sturtevant,

Miss Margaret L. Suckley,

Mrs. R. B. Suckley,
Mrs. James Sullivan,
Edwin 8. 8S. Sunderland,
Mrs. Richard Sutro,
Frank M. Swacker,
Mrs. J. Andrews Swan,
Joseph R. Swan,

Dr. F. J. Swanson,
Mrs. 8. A. Swenson,
Maurice Switzer,
Gerard Swope,

Walter H. Sykes, Jr.,
Miss Mary Taber,
Henry W. Taft,

Moses Tannenbaum,
Edwin Tatham,
Charles G. Taylor,
Frederick C. Taylor,

Mrs. Frederick M. T. Taylor,

W. A. Taylor,

(424)

8. Frederick Telleen,
Mrs. John T. Terry,

Mrs. Thomas Thacher,
Mrs. T. D. Thacher,

Mrs. Bayard Thayer,

H. B. Thayer,

Robert H. Thayer,

E. Thiele,

Miss Emma §. Thiele,
Mrs. H. M. Thomas,

Mrs. Hector W. Thomas,
Mrs. Howard L. Thomas,
Percival Thomas,

Dr. William S. Thomas,
Mrs. Harry A. Thompson,
L. 8S. Thompson,

Mrs. R. H. Thompson,
Samuel A, Thompson,
William B. Thompson,
Mrs. William Reed Thompson,
John C, Thorn,

Mrs. Edwin Thorne,
Mrs. Landon K. Thorne,
Samuel Thorne,
Sherman Thursby,

Louis C. Tiffany,

Mrs. Henry M. Tilford,
Dr. Walter Timme,

R. H. Timmermann,
James Timpson,

Mrs. Edward R. Tinker,
Alexander Tison, Jr.,
Mrs. Norman E. Titus,
Mrs. Margaret T. Tjader,
Edward R. Tolfree,

J. H. Towne,

George H. Townsend,
Mrs. George H. Townsend,

W. C, Trageser,

Mrs. John B. Trevor,
John Trounstine,

E. Kellogg Trowbridge,
W.H. Truesdale,

Carll Tucker,

Mrs. Carll Tucker,

Paul Tuckermann,
George E. Turnure,
Harry F. Turtle,

Mrs. Mary A. Tuttle,
Mrs. Charles H. Tweed,
Harrison Tweed,

Mrs. Alice B. aad
Mrs. Lucien H. Tyn

Mrs. Walter M. Underhill,
Samuel Ungerleider,
Samuel Untermyer,

Miss Martha C. Vail,
Mrs. Henry C. Valentine,
Augustus Van Cortlandt,
Robert T. Vanderbilt,
William H. Vanderbilt,
Francis 8. van der Veer,
Barend van Gerbig,

Miss Anne H. Van Ingen,
Miss Louise Van Ingen,
Dr. Philip Van Ingen,
John Vanneck,

Mrs. Warner M. Van Norden,

Mrs. E. van Raalte,
George Van Santvoord,
Irving Van Zandt,

Mrs. Wilbur Linwood Varian,

Mrs. James M. Varnum,
Mrs. A. C. Veatch,

Mrs. John A. Vietor,
Thomas F’. Vietor,

(425)

Alfonso P. Villa,

Ludwig Vogelstein,

Mrs. Owen M. Voight,

Dr. Antonie P, Voislawsky,
William von Phul,

Mrs. Anna M. von Zedlitz,
Frederick K. Vreeland,
Montgomery Waddell,
Mrs. W. Austin Wadsworth,
Dr. A. F, Wahl,

Justus I. Wakelee,

Anton E. Walbridge,

Mrs. Joseph Walker, Jr.,
Miss Miriam Dwight Walker,
Robert S. Walker,

Stuart Walker,

Mrs, W. K. Wallbridge,
Leo Wallerstein,

Dr. Max Wallerstein,

Mrs. Frederick A. Wallis,
Thomas J. Walsh,

William I. Walter,

Mrs. Felix M. Warburg,
James P. Warburg,

Dr. Francis R. Ward,

Mrs. Randolph 8. Warner,
Mrs. John I. Waterbury,

C. W. Watson,

Robert Wayman,

Harry Wearne,

Mrs, E. H. Weatherbee,
Mrs. V. Webb,

Mrs. W. Seward Webb,
Jules Weber,

Mrs. Orlando F, Weber,
Mrs. Hamilton Fish Webster,
Mrs. Alden H. Weed,

Miss Alice D. Weekes,

Dr. Eugene Wehmeyer,
George A. Weigel,

S. H. Weil,

Mrs. Charles Weinberg,
Mrs. Charles Weiss,

S. J. Weiss,

Mrs. Samuel W. Weiss,
Mrs. Oliver J. Wells,
William Y. Wemple,
Sanders A. Wertheim,
Charles C. West,

Mrs. Edward F. Weston,
Miss Edith Wetmore,
Mrs. Frederick 8. Wheeler,
Mrs. George C. Wheeler,
Mrs. William E. Wheelock,
Miss Amelia E. White,
Miss Caroline White,

Mrs. E. Lawrence White,
Harold T. White,

Mrs. Robert H. White,
Mrs. Stanford White,
Mrs. William T. White,
Miss Lucile Whitehurst,
Edward F. Whitney,

Mrs. George Whitney,
Mrs. Howard F. Whitney,
Miss Margaret S. Whitney,
Mrs. Arnold Whitridge,
Howard Whittemore,

F. B. Wiborg,

Miss Louise Wicke,

H. Wickenhauser,

Mrs. D. O. Wickham,

Miss Alice Wilson Wilcox.
Walter R. Wilder,

Ernest J. Wile,

Dr. Ira 8S. Wile,

(426)

J. Yale Wilkins,

Mrs. Matthew Astor Wilks,
Elmore A. Willets,

J. Macy Willets,

Mrs. Charles B. Williams,
Mrs. Clark Williams,

{rs. Harrison Williams,
Mrs. Perey H. Williams,
Richard H. Williams,
William H. Williams,
Mrs, G. DeWitt Williamson,
W. P. Willis,

James R. Williston,

Mrs, L. K. Wilmerding,
Mrs. A. Chalmers Wilson,
Mrs. Ernest H. Wilson,
Dr. Margaret B. Wilson,
Orme Wilson, Jr.,
Charles A. Wimpfheimer,
Jesse Winburn,

Mrs. J. Morgan Wing,
Mrs. Keyes Winter,
Bronson Winthrop,
Grenville L. Winthrop,
John C. Wister,

Mrs. Frank 8. Witherbee,
Joseph Wittman,

Dr. R. P. Wodehouse,

Dr. William H. Woglom,
Henry F. Wolff,

Lewis 8. Wolff,

M. Wolff,

Mrs. T. Wolfson,

Mrs. Ernest Wolkwitz,
Mrs. Willis D. Wood,
ss Martha E. Woodbury,
Mrs. William H. Woodin,
Chauncey C. Woodworth,

George C. Woolf,

Park M. Woolley,

Mrs. I. Maurice Wormser,
Martin Wortmann,

Miss Julia Wray,
Richardson Wright,
Gustave A. Wuefel,

(427)

Mrs. Henry Young,

Owen D. Young,

Mrs. Cornelius A. Zabriskie,
George A. Zabriskie,
Norman L. Zeno,

Albert G. Zimmerman,
August Zinsser,

Miss Muriel H. Wurts-Dundas, Mrs. Frida Zinsser,

Mrs. A. Murray Young,

Charles Zoller,
Mrs. Oscar F. Zollikoffer,
Christian F. Zoylner.

MEMBERS OF THE ADVISORY CoUNCIL

Mrs. Antaus H. Scripner, Chairman
Mrs. Samuet Stoan, Secretary

Mrs. Robert Bacon,

Miss Elizabeth Billings,
Mrs. Edward C. Bodman,
Mrs. N. L. Britton,

Mrs. Andrew Carnegie,

Mrs. Frederick A. Constable,

Mrs. Carl A. de Gersdorff,
Mrs. Charles D. Dickey,
Mrs. John W. Draper,

Miss Elizabeth S. Hamilton,
Mrs. A. Barton Hepburn,
Mrs. Robert C. Hill,

Mrs. Frederick C. Hodgdon,
Mrs. Walter Jennings,

Mrs. Bradish Johnson,

Mrs. Delancey Kane,

Mrs. Gustav E. Kissel,
Mrs. William A. Lockwood,
Mrs. David Ives Mackie,
Mrs. John R. McGinley,
Mrs. Roswell Miller,

Mrs. Wheeler H. Peckham,
Mrs. George W. Perkins,
Mrs. Harold I. Pratt,

Mrs. Wm. Kelly Prentice,
Mrs. James Roosevelt,

Mrs. Charles H. Stout,
Mrs. Theron G. Strong,
Mrs. Henry O. Taylor,
Mrs, John T. Terry,

Mrs. Harold McL. Turner,
Mrs. Louise Beebe Wilder,

Mrs. William H. Woodin.

Honoragy Memper or THE Apvisory Councn,
Mrs. E. Henry Harriman.

(429)

GENERAL INDEX

era Ne a 83-86, 142-147, 318-

a iL 32, 104, 113, 124, 189,
206, 265, 282, 359, 379
Advisory Council, Honorar
bers of the, 82, 172, 255, 350, 427
Members of the, 82, 171-2 255,
350,
sat Members, ve ee 151-171,
235-255, 327- ee
Assistant Director padlren
See Hoe A.
Auditors, Certifications, etc. (See
ccoun
Auxiliary, Worcs: (See Advisory
Council)

Barnhart, Joh Reports of the
Pee 31, 124, 206, 282,

379
Benefactors, 60, 148, 232, 324, 400
Bibliographer, Reports, 31, 124, 206,
282, 379
Bicknell, E. P., 104, 359, 391

Boynton, Kenneth R. Reports of the
He Gardener, 23, 115, 197,

266, :
Britton, Elizabeth G. Investigations,
1

nvestigations, 14,

8
Reports of the Secretary and Di-
rector-in-Chief, 7, 95, 181, 257,

and Ground

Buildings, Bridges,
Reports, 34

Superintendent of.
127, 210, 304, 385
Carnegie Corporation, 176, 392. (See
ndowmen
Certificate of Auditors, 59, 147, 227,

Chairman of the Board of Scientific
Directors. Reports, 44, 140,

Committee or on eerie Fellows and
Members. Reports, 60, 148, 232,

Conservatories, 10, 25, 116, 198, 362
Contributions, 11, 104, 189

Contributions from Members, 9,
15, ae 189-90, 366. (See re
Bot. Gard., Giits)
Corbett, Arthur Js 83
eports of the
Buildings and Ground
210, 304, 385

Sie aey ae of
s, 34, 127,

Dahlia oe 8, 25, 91, 182, 223,
268

eis H. M. Reports of the
Honorary Custodian of the
Local Herbarium, 43, 139, 222,

315, 391
Director- -in-Chief. Reports, (1924)
73 925 ; (1926) 181;
(1927) 257; (1928) 351
Director of Li ories. Reports,
28, 120, 201, 278, 368

27
Docentry, ete, 10, 103, 176, 186, me
353, 37 (see Wilson, P.,

McLean,

Dodge, B. 0. In nvestigations, 365,
392. Report, 373

Eaton, M. E., os a 137

Edison, Thom 359. (See

Small, J. S)
Endowments, 1 1, 173, 176, ee (See
ent’s Report, 192
eecuice Com mittee, Root of the
President od Chairman of the,
1, 87, 173

Fellows for Life, 61, 149, 233, 325,

Financial Accounting, 49-59, 83-86,
94, 142-147, 319-323, 394-99
Flora, North America n, 11, 31, v2,

he 105, 124, 206, 263, 282, 357,

of British Guiana, 12, 263, 358.

S) eason,
aa Mee 23, 46, 115-18, 197-
0, 259, 266- 272, 351, 382, 362,

case nes ae Hollick, Arthur)
razil, 40
a the ce Indies, 11, 13
of Porto Rico, 187, 217
of Staten Island, 217

Plants, 187
Fungi, 12, 21, 44, 45, 106, 188, 264

(430)

Garden:
Dahlia, 8, 25, 117, 198, 268, 352,
2

Gladiolus, 8, 26, 117, 199
Hyacinth 26, 117, 199
, 8, 23, 25, ra 198, 268, 352,

Lilac, 26, 118, 199, 269

Roc Ik, 27, 118, 199, 269

Rose, 8, 25, 27, 117, 198, 352, 362

Other kinds, 23, 24, 25, 26, 417- 18,
199, 268, 352, "36

Greenhouse ‘Collections, ‘a 10, 24, 97,

Geneva Library Ae ake 10, 206,
2

Gifts to the Garden. (See N. Y.

ot. Gard.
pedals Displays, 8, 26, 117, 198,
269

Gleason, nvestigations, 11,
a a0 44, 0s, ae 187, 193, 263,
357

with Cook, M. T., 187, 1
with Moore, Richards ee Stout,

with Sprague, T. A., 12
with Royal Bot. Gard., Kew, Eng.,
12, 357-8

Harper, R. A. Reports of the
Chairman of the Scientific Di-

Herbarium. Reports, 18, 109,
191, 261, 355
Head Gardener.
197, 266, 361
and its Environment, 11.
(See Gleason, H. A.
Hestaseous ames 9, 17, 25, 116,
1

” The. 90
5

Reports, 23, 115,

Reports, 40, ae 217, 309, 382
wi ith Prof. Ber 13
Geolog ical Survey, 40
Hon abe Curat ee Mosses, Re-
s, 42, 136, "219, 313, 389
fionerany Cura the s and
Narcissus ei 273, 364

Horticultural Grounds, 7, 8, 23, 90,
115, 361

owe, Marshall A. Investigations,
13, 1 4, 104, 1
Ss. Geological Survey, 13,

is”
ee Collections, 13, 25, 91, 97,

Hoyt, Mrs. Sherman, 362
yacinth Display, 26, 117, a aioe
eee Public. (See
Education)

Trises.
Sern 7, 8, 25, 91, 223, 364
Test Garden, 8, 364, 365

Japanese Cherries, 8, 358, 373
Journal of the New York Botanical
Garden, 1, 11, 44, 104, 380

Kemp, James Furman, 223
Kunderd, A. E. "Gift of Gladiolus
corms, 8, 26

Labeling, 27, 353, 363
Laboratories, oe of the.

xe
Librarian. Reports, 32, 125, 207,
284, 380
Library:
Additional purchases, 10, 125, 187,

207, 218, 283, 353, 380
Catalogue, 33, 125, 207, 259, 353

Census, 32,
Life Members, 61 61, 149, 233, 401-3
43, 139, 222, 265,
Lilies. (See Stout, A. B. Investi-
Lorillard Mansion, 16, 100

{embers, ear De 235, 403

23
; 392
Merrill, John L., 83, 226, 318 (See
also Treasurer, Reports)

(431)

Mitchell, Mrs. Wm., 21, 43, 106, 112,
139, 195, 264-5, 315, 359, 391
Model Ga aes

he H. Memorial,” 90, 96,

178, 38, 352
Mojave Desert heiges
ae Honorary Curat ] oa Re-

s, 42, Be 219, 313, 389

Mulford Exploration, "40, 21
Museum

Economic, 18, 109, 191, 261, 355,

Fossil Plant, i 261, 355, 356
Systematic, 19,
Mycologia, 11, we 104, 112, 189,
Narcissus. (See Peckham, Mrs.

Displays, 9, 26, 91, 95, 362, 366
‘und, Contributors to the, 9, 95

Native American Wild Flowers, 42,
43, 137, 220, 313

ork Agricultural Experiment

The. (See Stout, A. B.,
a

181, 211, 257, 305, 306, 351, 38
eee 34, 127, 183, 210, 258,
3

Floricultural Collections, 23, 46,
115-18, 197-200, 259, 266- 272,

3 ?
Gardening Staff, The, 23-24, 115,
Ge, 41 (See Hollick A., Re-

Gitte, 5 8, 9, 11, 14, 15, 1
2 ; 28, ai, , 96 160
101, 104, 109, 125, 173, 182, 189-
219, 220, 257, 261, 26

67,
313, 355, 361, 362, 365, 366, 389
. atural Features, 2, 47
Paths, 35, a Be 181-2, 211, 257,
305, 351- 2, 3
Recommendations, ees Im-
provements, 1 4, 92,
100, 102, 173, 1%) 98 Se 354
Regulating and Grading, 34, 101,
127, 185, 210, 304, 385
Topography, 47, 175, 224
eg Supply, 7, 35, 128, 211, 305,

North American Flora,
104, 105, 124, 206, 63 le, ag

8
ete veces Report of (1924)
3, 4, 5, 6, 92, 101, 177, 184-5

eee. Reporte 40, 134, 217,
309,

Park Department, 184, 351, 354
Operati
Police Pecan: 181, 258, 353,

Pathologist, 45-6, 358
s, 60, 148-9, 232, a 400-1
Pa us a
Anson §.) 7, 25, 2
113, 182, 197, 273, 340, 364 (See
a onorary Curator of the
ris Narcissus Collections)
Pie ase 1
Plant Ecology, 187 (See Gleason,

Plant Pathology, 45, 358, 373 (See
Dodge, B. O.

se and Chairman of the Ex-
e Committee. (See Re-

Pa AW eee & Co., 147, 227,
Prize Gardens, 89, 90, 96, 178, 258,

361
Public Education, 13, 103, 104, 351,
353, 376, 377, 392
Publications: 3
Addisonia, 11, 32, 104, 113, 124,
189, 206, 265, 282, 358, 379
Bulletin, 11, 104
Contributions, 11, 104, 189
Journal, 1, 11, 44, 104, 380
ore i1, 12, 21, 104, 112, 189,

rth American Flora, 11, 31
104 105, 124, 206, 263, 282, "387

Rau, Eugene A.
Bot t. Gard.,
Registered Students, 31,

281, 371

ie (See N. Y.

123, 104,

Bibliographer, 31, 124, 206, 282,

Chairman of the Board of Sci-
entific Directors, 44, 140, 223,
316, 392

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