222 Rhodora [AvGusT 
Essex Institute, see Peabody Academy of Science. 
Fairbanks museum of Natural Science, St. JOHNSBURY, 
. VERMONT. — The nucleus of this herbarium was the collection of 
plants of Dr. A. Blanchard, of Peacham, Vermont, numbering about 
2500 sheets, which was purchased in 1889 and placed in the mu- 
seum building when it was built in 1891. Since then it has been 
increased by collections of some of the Vermont botanists and now 
contains about sroo sheets of phaenogams and cryptogams from 
both Europe and America. 
Faxon, Charles Edward, Jamaica PLAIN, MASSACHUSETTS. 
— This herbarium, accumulated by Mr. Faxon and his brother, 
the late Edwin Faxon, consists almost entirely of New England 
plants, and contains about 4000 species, and at least 5000 sheets, 
representing all groups except fungi. It is mounted in folios. 
Among the specialists who have critically examined and named 
many of the plants, were Dr. Asa Gray, Mr. M. S. Bebb, and Dr. 
Geo. Engelmann. In 1898 Mr. Faxon presented to the Gray 
Herbarium more than eleven thousand duplicates collected by 
his brother and himself. Of these the bryophytes and thallophytes 
have since been deposited in the Cryptogamic Herbarium of 
Harvard University. 
Fernald, Merritt Lyndon, CAMBRIDGE, MassACHUSETTS.— Mr. 
Fernald began his collection in 1887, and it now numbers not less 
than 200c0 sheets, which are mostly unmounted. The plants, chiefly 
phaenogams and vascular cryptogams, are arranged in systematic 
order and are strictly confined to the flora of Maine. The localities 
chiefly represented are Aroostook, Penobscot, Piscataquis, and Vork 
Counties, with portions of Somerset, Lincoln, Hancock and Franklin 
Counties. This is the most complete representation in existence of 
the vascular plants of Maine. 
(Zo be continued.) 
Vol. 3, No. 31, including pages ror to 208 and plate 33, was issued 12 July 
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