SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR. 17 
Among the donors of plants to the Garden in 1895, I wish 
particularly to mention Professor Sargent, of the Arnold 
Arboretum, who has supplied us with nearly 500 correctly 
named species or varieties of hardy plants, for the most 
part of Japanese origin. 
In compliance with the desire expressed in the thirty- 
third paragraph of the fourth clause of Henry Shaw’s 
will, a cottage has been erected on the grounds just within 
the Museum Gate, which is occupied by an employee whose 
duty it is to keep in order the mausoleum, the museum 
building, the grove, and the grounds around. This cottage 
is so placed that when the number of visitors to the Garden 
shall have become considerably greater than it now is, the 
occupant may also act as gate-keeper for the- Museum Gate, 
and a waiting room for ladies has been reserved in it. It 
is connected with a bell button at this gate, which has been 
marked for the present as for the Director’s residence only, 
by direction of.the Board, since the need for opening the 
gate to the public is not now great enough to justify the 
employment of an attendant’s time. 
The herbarium has been increased by the incorporation 
of 10,635 sheets of specimens, of which 4,465 were pur- 
chased and 6,170 were received by donation or exchange. 
Three mounted duplicates from the Engelmann herbarium, 
as well as 484 unmounted duplicates, have been distributed 
in exchanges. As now constituted, the mounted herbarium 
contains the following collections :— : 
The Engelmann herbarium (all groups), about........ 97,800 specimens. 
The general herbarium of higher plants :— 
The Bernhardi herbarium..........-...--61,120 
Other specimens .....scccccsccccccicecce 64,976 
The collection of Thallophytes: — 
The Bernhardi herbarium.......sesseseee 126 
Other specimens.......-sveecsecscccscess 18,140 
18,266 <« 
Making a total of about.....seseeseseee 242,162 
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