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sets of Algae, Lichens, and Fungi. The phaenogams are, in a great 
part, gifts of persons interested in the college and are from all parts 
of the world. ‘The collection has been in existence twelve or thirteen 
years, and is now in charge of Professor W. F. Ganong. 
South Natick Historical, Natural History and Library 
Society, Sourn Narick, MassaACHUSETTS. — This society possesses 
a large number of plants which once belonged to Dr. J. W. Robbins 
of Uxbridge, Prof. J. L. Russell of Salem, Judge Clinton of Buffalo, 
and others including a collection of ferns from South India, Africa 
(Mountains of the Moon), Sandwich Islands, South America, etc., 
They are at present in the care of a botanist who is engaged in the 
work of mounting and classifying them with the purpose of rendering 
them available for reference. 
Springfield Botanical Society, SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS, 
— The plants in this collection, numbering about rooo specimens, 
are nearly all from the region around Springfield. Mrs. M. L. Owen 
has, however, contributed to it all her rarer plants of Nantucket, and 
it includes some of M. S. Bebb’s willows and L. H. Bailey’s Cares. 
Sturtevant, Edward Lewis. Dr. Sturtevant made his collec- 
tions along special lines, and it consisted very largely of cultivated 
plants. In the Garden Herbarium of Cornell University are his col- 
lections of Cucurbitae and the genus Zaraxacum, also the material on 
which he founded his monograph of garden beans. Much of this 
collection now in possession of Cornell University consists of manu- 
script notes, extensive clippings, tracings of old drawings, and origi- 
nal paintings by his daughter. He gave his specimens of Capsicum 
to the Missouri Botanical Garden, but his collection of corn has been 
nearly if not entirely destroyed. 
Sullivant, William Starling, see Harvard University, Crypto- 
gamic Herbarium. 
Swan, Charles Walter, BROOKLINE, MassacHuskETTs.— Dr. 
Swan’s herbarium, consisting largely of phaenogams, contains 6400 
sheets, representing 134 orders, and go2 genera. It has been col- 
lected during the past twenty years by exchange, purchase, and field 
work. A few hundred sheets represent foreign plants, 700 Canadian 
plants especially of the Rocky Mountains and the northwest, but the 
larger number contain plants of the United States, New England 
especially eastern Massachusetts claiming a majority of the specimens. 
The orders are arranged alphabetically and the genera under the 
