242 Rhodora [SEPTEMBER 
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MASSACHUSETTS.— The earliest portion of this collection dates back 
to 1878 when a few specimens of woody plants were organized as a 
herbarium. In 1882 it had grown to 6000 or 8000 sheets and 
August 1, 1900, it numbered 34513 sheets. It consists of specimens 
of trees and shrubs from all parts of the world, and is specially rich 
in Coniferae. An excellent library of 7300 volumes is connected 
with it. Professor Charles Sprague Sargent has the direction of this 
herbarium. | 
Harvard University, Botanical Museum, CAMBRIDGE, MASSA- 
CHUSETTS.— The herbarium at the Botanical Museum is a working 
collection for classes in Botany at Harvard College. It contains 
phaenogams and vascular cryptogams arranged in the order of Engler 
& Prantl's Natürlicher Pflanzenfamilien. It comprises about 10000 
sheets of which about 1000 are Japanese, 1500 European, and 7500 
are American. This collection is in charge of Professor George Lin- 
coln Goodale. 
Harvard University, Cryptogamic Herbarium, CAMBRIDGE, 
MASSACHUSETTS. — The Cryptogamic Herbarium of Harvard Uni- 
versity contains the collection of fungi of the late Rev. M. A. Curtis 
and other valuable collections of fungi and is especially rich in pub- 
lished series of fungi exsiccati. The most important representation of 
lichens is the collection of Professor Edward Tuckerman which was 
purchased in 1888 ; other valuable sets of lichens are those of Mr. 
C. J. Sprague, Professor J. Mueller, and Professor Farlow. 
The Algae of this herbarium are of wide geographic range — the 
most extensive set being presented by Dr. C. L. Anderson of Santa 
Cruz, Cal. Among the exotic species are the sets of Professor G. J. 
Agardh, Prof. J. E. Areschoug, Mr. E. A. Batters, Dr. Ed. Bornet, 
Professor C. Flahault, Dr. M. Foslie, Professor E. M. Holmes, 
F. Hauck, Dr. P. Hennings, Professor F. J. Kjellman, M . A. Le Jolis, 
Baron F. von Mueller, Maj. T. Reinbold, Professor J. Reinke, Dr. 
L. K. Rosenvinge, Madam Weber van Bosse, Professor E. P. Wright, 
and others. 
The Musci are represented by the herbarium of Mr. W. S. Sullivant, 
the large collection of Mr. Thomas P. James, and the collection of 
Mr. Thomas Taylor, all of which have been recently transferred to 
the Cryptogamic Herbarium from the Gray Herbarium. 
An accurate count of the cryptogamic herbarium has never been 
made but a conservative estimate would place the number of speci- 
