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Society with its building. A few plants of the early surveys of Maine 
had been taken out for examination and thus escaped being burned. 
The Maine specimens and many of the other plants, excepting Dr. 
Wood's collection received since his death in 1899, have been 
mounted and organized. 
Preston, Howard Willis, Provipencre, RHODE IsLAND.— Mr. 
Preston’s herbarium consists mainly of specimens collected by him- 
self in New England and Florida, and numbers about 1500 specimens. 
Of late years his attention has been given to collecting woods and 
microscopical mounts of timber. 
Pringle, Cyrus Guernsey, CHARLOTTE, VERMONT, — In Mr. 
Pringle’s herbarium nearly four-fifths of the species of Patterson’s 
Check-list of the plants of North America are represented with sev- 
eral specimens for each, Of Mexican plants Mr. Pringle has a full 
set of his own collections amounting to about 16000 specimens. 
He also has nearly half the species of Europe and surrounding regions 
represented by several specimens of each. ‘These are all mounted 
and arranged in regular herbarium cases. 
Rand, Edward Lothrop, CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS. — This 
herbarium includes the plants of Mt. Desert Island, Me., but it is 
representative of the flora of the coast of Maine between Penobscot 
Bay and Eastport. It is probably the only collection of exclusively 
Maine coast plants available for study, and contains at least 15000 
specimens. It was commenced about 1880 as the basis of a list of 
the plants of Mt. Desert Island. Its increase during the first years 
was not rapid, but in 1888 Mr. Redfield combined with Mr. Rand to 
make the flora as complete as possible. Mr. Redfield contributed a 
full set of all plants collected by him, but this valuable addition was 
destroyed by fire in New York while on its way to Boston. Efforts 
were made to repair this loss and in 1894 at the time of the publica- 
tion of the Flora of Mt. Desert all the plants mentioned in the cata- 
logue were represented by specimens with few exceptions, most of 
these being lichens collected by Dr. Eckfeldt. Since that time when- 
ever a plant has been reported at least one specimen has been depos- 
ited in the herbarium. 
The plants are nearly all unmounted but carefully preserved in 
folders. Nearly every species is represented by a number of speci- 
mens from different parts of the Island and in cases of difficult genera 
there is a large supply of material for comparison. As the work on 
