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Society. An excellent account of the herbarium at that date together 

 with a biographical sketch of Mr. Frost by Professor W. R. Dudley 

 is in the Journal of Mycology II, 114 (1886). Owing to lack of room 

 this Society never was able fully to arrange the collections other than 

 the lichens, which were worked over by Mr. Starrow Higginson in 

 1891. The Society at last decided, through the especial interest of 

 two of its members, Mrs. Elizabeth 1>. Davenport and Judge H. H. 

 Wheeler, to recommend the transfer of the entire Frost Herbarium 

 to the University of Vermont. This has been accomplished and the 

 arrangement and cataloguing of the specimens so as to render them 

 accessible to botanists is now under way. 



The library includes about one hundred volumes together with a 

 considerable amount of manuscript notes, drawings and correspon- 

 dence. 



Mr. Frost was evidently not a herbarium maker by nature and his 

 collections are not so extensive as his long and active botanical career 

 would lead one to expect. The herbarium includes between 3000 

 and 5000 specimens of cryptogams so far as can be judged at present, 

 the phanerogamic portion being of minor interest and value. 



These specimens are usually not very generous in size and naturally 

 have deteriorated much during the quarter of a century since Mr. 

 Frost ceased to care for them. However, much of historical interest 

 and value attaches to them. This is especially true of the Boleti of 

 which there are a considerable number of type specimens. We hope 

 to be able soon to have the specimens in all the groups so arranged 

 and catalogued as to be easily accessible and will then welcome visits 

 or inquiries from specialists who are interested in them. 



No word of introduction is needed regarding Mr. Cyrus G. Pringle 

 or his botanical work. Suffice it to say that, while he is widely 

 known because of his contributions to the herbaria of others, it has 

 been his chief ambition and an important part of his occupation for 

 some thirty years to prepare a herbarium of his own of the best 

 quality and most comprehensive nature possible. It was this desire 

 which first led him into the field explorations in Vermont and later 

 into those more and more extensive collecting expeditions to western 

 America and Mexico which have so greatly enriched most of the 

 large herbaria of the world during the last quarter of a century. 

 His own herbarium has heretofore been kept at his farm home in 

 Charlotte and to its quiet alcoves he has each year returned from his 



