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the Mt. Desert flora still progresses some hundreds of specimens are 
added to the herbarium each year. 
A nearly complete duplicate set of the phaenogamic plants cover- 
ing the work up to 1895 is now deposited in the Academy of Natu- 
ral Sciences at Philadelphia. 
Rhode Island College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, 
KINGSTON, RHODE IsLAND. — The collection of plants at this college 
is mostly cryptogamic including Ellis’s Fungi Columbiani, Seymour 
and Earle’s Economic Fungi, Briosi and Cavara’s Parasitic Fungi of 
cultivated plants, Arthur and Holway’s Uredineae, together with a 
small collection of native seed-plants. The herbarium at the Experi- 
ment Station is small but includes a collection of Halsted’s American 
weeds and many economic fungi. 
Rich, William Penn, Boston, Massacuusetts. — Mr. Rich 
commenced his herbarium in 1878, confining it strictly to New 
England plants. It contains about 1700 species represented by 
numerous sheets showing distribution and various stages of growth, 
comprising in all about 4000 sheets. The asters, the solidagos, the 
grasses, and the sedges have been collected most extensively. The 
flora of eastern Massachusetts is more fully aii than that of 
any other section. 
Robbins, James W.— In 1872 Dr. Robbins’ futi was 
divided and a part sent to Mt. Holyoke College and a part to the 
South Natick Historical and Natural History Society. An excellent 
set of the exsiccati distributed by Dr. Robbins is in the Gray 
Herbarium. A full set of his aquatic plants is believed to be in the 
herbarium of the late Dr. Thomas Morong. 
Sanderson, Charles Henry Kellogg. — During the last ten 
years of his life Mr. Sanderson made a collection of the flowering 
plants and ferns of Greenfield, Mass., and vicinity. At the time of 
his death, in 1884, his collection numbered over 1300 mounted sheets 
of plants and a large number of unmounted specimens. Mrs. 
Sanderson now keeps the herbarium of her husband at her home in. 
Greenfield. 
Sears, John Henry, SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS. — Mr. Sears has 
a special collection of about 1000 sheets of Ranunculaceae from all 
parts of the world. 
(Zo be continued.) 
Vol. 3, No. 33, including pages 223 to 244, was issued 16 September, 1gor. 
