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mens; spermatophytes, sooo specimens; which are all mounted. 
Professor G. H. Perkins’ herbarium is incorporated here, also a 
nearly complete set of Mr Pringle's Vermont collections and the 
more recent ones of Dr. A. J. Grout and W. W. Eggleston. During 
the last decade it has been the chief aim of the Curator, Professor L. 
R. Jones, to make this collection as completely representative of the 
Vermont flora as possible. It contains a large part of the material 
upon which Brainerd, Jones and Eggleston's Flora of Vermont was 
based. 
Wellesley College, WELLESLEY, MassacHUsETTs.— This her- 
barium has been especially developed in the line of cryptogams, and 
contains 11264 specimens representing about 8000 species. Of the 
phaenogams there are about 7000 specimens containing 3664 species. 
Among the important collections represented are the following: — 
Rabenhorst, Bryotheca Europaea; Warnstorf, Deutsche Laubmoose ; 
Gottsche & Rabenhorst, Hepaticae Europaeae ; Underwood & Cook, 
Hepaticae Americanae; Austin, Hepaticae Boreali-Americanae ; 
Collins, Holden & Setchell, Phycotheca Boreali-Americana; Farlow, 
Anderson & Earle, Algae Exsiccatae Am. Bor.; A. H. Curtiss, 
Algae Floridanae; Ellis & Everhard, North American Fungi; Sey. 
mour & Earle, Economic Fungi; A. H. Curtiss, Plants of southern 
‘United States; Reverchon, Texan Plants; Patterson, Colorado 
Plants; G. E. Cooley, Alaskan Plants; Mig. Bang, Plantae Bolivianae ; 
H. H. Rusby, Plants of South America; T. Morong, Plants of Par- 
aguay, and many Caries from the Herbarium of William Boott 
This herbarium is in charge of Professor S. M. Hallowell and 
Professor C. E. Cummings. 
Wesleyan University, MIDDLETOWN, CoNNkEcrICUT.— The pur- 
chase of the Collection of Dr. Shurtleff in 1868 was the beginning of 
this herbarium, the only considerable addition which has since been 
made is the Joseph Barratt collection in 1879. It contains about 
50oo species of plants which are nearly all phaenogams from New 
England, the grasses and sedges being better represented than any 
other orders. It is in the care of Professor H. W. Conn. 
Wheeler, John Adams, Mirronp, New HAMPSHIRE. — Mr. 
Wheeler has a collection of about 4ooo sheets of plants, including 
phaenogams and cryptogams, from all parts of the United States, 
acquired during the past six years. It contains plants from the her- 
baria of both Mr. Edward Tatnall of Wilmington, and Dr. A. W. 
Chapman of Florida. 
