1901] Day,— Herbaria of New England 69 
since that time he has accumulated about 2400 sheets of specimens 
of flowering plants and higher cryptogams, of which a small part are 
European and the rest from the United States. Mr. Andrews has 
collected extensively in Southington and its vicinity, and from an 
area of 36 square miles has rogo species. His list of plants grow- 
ing upon the summit of Meriden Mountain is based on specimens in 
his herbarium. 
Arnold Arboretum, see Harvard University. 
Bailey, William Whitman, PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND. — 
Professor Bailey's private collection numbers about 3000 sheets of 
which nearly half are unmounted. It is arranged by orders accord- 
ing to Bentham & Hooker's Genera Plantarum but the genera under 
each order are alphabetical. It contains valuable specimens from 
Stephen Thayer Olney, George Thurber, George Hunt, etc., and is 
especially strong in Umbelliferae, Compositae, Labiatae, Carex and 
Filices. ; 
Barratt, Joseph, see Wesleyan University. 
Bates College, Lewisron, Marne, — The nucleus of this herba- 
rium was gathered many years ago by the late Dr. Aaron Young, 
who was an enthusiastic botanist connected with one of the early 
geological surveys of Maine. After the death of President Chad- 
bourne of Williams College his herbarium was purchased and pre- 
sented to Bates College by a patron of the institution. The Chad- 
bourne herbarium contains not only his own collections but Asa 
Gray’s North American Gramineae and Cyperaceae, Charles Wright’s 
Cuban plants, Chester Dewey’s Carices, Hall & Harbour’s plants of 
the Rocky Mountains, together with many of C. C. Parry’s plants 
and of Ravenel’s Carolina Fungi. O. R. Willis’s New Jersey plants 
are also at Bates College. Mr. Fred. E. Pomeroy now has charge 
of this herbarium. 
Bennett, James Lawrence, see Brown University.. 
Bishop, James Nathaniel, PLAINVILLE, CONNECTICUT.— About 
1870 Mr. Bishop began his collection of plants and has added to it 
year by year until he now has between 5000 and 6000 specimens. 
Besides those of his own preparation he has specimens collected by 
Dr. J. W. Robbins, Dr. H. C. Bennett, and A. H. Curtiss of Florida; 
Potamogetons from Dr. Morong and Cyperaceae and Gramineae from 
Elihu Hall. The New England ferns are well represented. The 
specialty of his herbarium is the representation of the plants of 
