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W. Robbins of Uxbridge including a full set of his Potamogetons. 
The herbarium of Mount Holyoke College is in charge of Miss H. E. 
Hooker. 
New England Botanical Club, CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS. — 
In 1896 the New England Botanical Club started a collection of 
plants which has increased until it now numbers about 15000 sheets 
of specimens, mostly mounted and organized. It contains the her- 
barium of Herbert A. Young, which was the basis of his flora of 
Oak Island, Massachusetts, the herbarium of the Metropolitan Park 
Commission, representing the flora of the large Park-reservations 
about Boston, and the herbarium of the Middlesex Institute, includ- 
ing most of the plants upon which Dame & Collins’ Flora of Middle- 
sex County was based; also many duplicates from the herbaria of 
William Boott, and Edwin and Charles E. Faxon. It is now located 
in one of the rooms of the Gray Herbarium. 
Norwich Free Academy, NORWICH, Connecticut. — The 
herbarium at Norwich Free Academy is in charge of Mr. Martin E. 
Jenson, and contains about rooo mounted specimens of phaenogams 
and cryptogams. ‘The geographical range is New London County, 
Connecticut. Many of the plants of Case & Setchell’s Catalogue 
are represented in this herbarium. 
Oakes, William. — Mr. Oakes collected plants in large numbers 
and distributed many to his botanical friends. After his death in 
1848 the plants left by him were made into sets and sold, the first, 
best, and most complete set being purchased by the Boston Society 
of Natural History, where it is now incorporated into the New Eng- 
land herbarium. The Essex Institute had about 400 species which 
are now at the Peabody Academy of Science. A very full set is also 
at the Gray Herbarium. 
Olney, Stephen Thayer, see Brown University. 
Owen, Mrs, Maria Louisa, SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS. —— 
The rare plants of Nantucket which are mentioned in Mrs. Owen’s 
Catalogue of the plants growing without cultivation in the county of 
Nantucket, Massachusetts, are deposited in the herbarium of the 
Springfield Botanical Club. 
Parlin, John Crawford, NonrH Berwick, MAine — The 
present herbarium of Mr. Parlin dates from 1394 and contains about 
1800 specimens of phaenogams and vascular cryptogams, chiefly 
from Maine, though a few are from New Hampshire, Massachusetts, 
