ELEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR. 15 
some 5,700 specimens (of which some 3,200 are duplicates, 
to be used in future exchange) largely of Vermont 
plants, collected by Dr. Ferdinand Blanchard, was received 
in the early part of the year from Mrs. Alice F. Stevens of 
Washington, in exchange for an equivalent amount of du- 
plicate material from the Garden herbarium which she 
directed sent to Dartmouth College. In December about 
8,300 specimens were purchased from the estate of the late 
Dr. A. W. Chapman, of Apalachicola, Fla., of which some 
3,200 specimens had constituted his personal reference col- 
lection for many years.* Neither of these collections has 
yet been inserted in the herbarium of the Garden. The 
material actually incorporated in the herbarium during the 
year amounts to 32,890 sheets of specimens, of which 
15,863 were bought, 4,930 pertain to the Redfield herba- 
rium, t 1,451 were collected by Garden employees, and 
10,646, appraised at $532.30, were presented, chiefly in 
exchange for Garden publications and specimens. By way 
of exchange, 5,272 herbarium specimens, valued at $263.60, 
were distributed to correspondents. } 
* Concerning these specimens, Dr. Chapman wrote in November, 
1898: “ When I commenced making a herbarium I cut any stiff paper 
that came to hand into sheets 15 by 10 inches, inclosing them in binder’s 
boards, book-form, on which I fastened the specimens, on some a single 
one, or two or more species. The collection thus made has been my 
working herbarium ever since, and contains some 2,500 to 3,000 species 
of plants, some of them fastened to buff sheets but all later additions 
loose. There are about fifty volumes of them, ranging in thickness from 
one to six inches. When I was writing the first edition of my Flora, 
these sheets were spread out before me and the plants now remaining on 
them are to be considered typical, — but since then many have been de- 
tached, some to make up the herbarium that I sold to Vanderbilt, and 
some that I sent to you and to Columbia College. Since then the addi- 
tions have been placed loosely in the covers. Scattered through the 
volumes are my notes, descriptions, etchings, and guesses.’’ 
+ Report. 9:14. 10317, 18. 
t It should be noted that this includes 4,098 specimens sent in 
settlement for the large Blanchard collection, which does not appear 
in this year’s incorporations in the herbarium, being still held for 
mounting. 
