1924] Weatherby,—Another Davenport Fern Herbarium 51 
New York and other correspondents, the ferns of the northeastern 
United States are adequately, but, except in the special cases men- 
tioned, by no means copiously, represented. 
As to other regions, the scope of the herbarium may be indicated 
by the following list of the larger and better known collections from 
which it has material. 
NEWFOUNDLAND: Robinson & Schrenk. 
EASTERN CANADA: Fernald & Collins, Gaspé. 
SOUTHEASTERN UNITED States: Donnell Smith, various states; A. H. 
Curtiss and Mary C. Reynolds, Florida; W. C. Dukes, Alabama—an inter- 
esting series of the ternate Botrychia of that region. 
Texas: E. Palmer; Reverchon. 
SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES: Pringle, Lemmon, E. Palmer, and 
numerous correspondents in California—so many that the species of that 
region are often better represented than those of the Northeast. 
NORTHWESTERN AMERICA: Suksdorf’s earlier collections; Howell, Oregon 
and Alaska; L. M. Turner, Alaska. 
Mexico: An apparently almost complete set of the ferns of Pringle’s 
earlier collections (sent in for naming), including several numbers not before 
represented at the Gray Herbarium; sets of E. Palmer, Conzatti & González, 
C. L. Smith and Millspaugh (Yucatan): a few specimens each from Rovirosa 
and Fink. 
West INDIES: Full sets of the ferns of Millspaugh’s Plantae Utowanae 
and Plantae Antillanae; J. R. Churchill, Jamaica; Hahn, Martinique, some 
of whose specimens are from localities on the slopes of Mont Pelée doubtless 
blown into dust or buried under lava in the great eruption. 
SOUTH AMERICA: Fendler, Venezuela—a good set; Leprieur, French Guiana. 
Europe: R. A. Ware; H. Christ—a set containing series of named varieties 
and forms of various species. 
REGION OF THE PactiFic: Vieillard, different islands; William Wendte, 
Hawaiian Islands; Ferrie, Loo Choo (a few only); Verreaux, Australia; Eric 
Craig, New Zealand.! 
Interest of another sort is added to the collection by Davenport's 
habit of keeping with his specimens letters relating more or less to 
them. There are perhaps a hundred of these letters from persons of 
all degrees of obscurity and prominence. Among them are—to men- 
tion a few—J. G. Baker, H. Christ, Raynal Dodge, A. A. and D. C. 
Eaton, Engelmann, Thomas Howell, Leggett, Pringle, Redfield, and 
John Robinson. A large proportion of the letters are of interest chiefly 
as autographs; some, however, cast side-lights on the biography, the 
character, or the opinions of their writers, or record incidents not 
unworthy of note. 
! Craig used to prepare dried bouquets of ferns and mosses which he sold to those 
who fancied such things and, so far as he is known to botanists, may be infamous 
accordingly. But he also issued sets of real botanical specimens, for the most part 
accurately named, some of which came into the hands of American amateurs but 
seem only now to be making their way into public herbaria. Their defect is lack of 
detailed data; “ New Zealand" is the only information vouchsafed. 
