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aggregating many hundred specimens, donated by L. H. 

 Pammel, F. S. Earle, Prof. W. R. Dudley, Dr. Aug. Gat- 

 tinger, C. W. Kempton, J. Q. A. Fritchey, Dr. George 

 Vasey, the Secretary of Agriculture, Mrs. F. W. Wislizenus, 

 Mrs. Katherine Brandegee, Dr. Chas. Mohr, Miss Frances 

 Prince, Dr. J. Schneck, F. W. Anderson, the Director of 

 the Kevv Gardens, Dr. C. C. Parry, Mr. Edwin Harrison, 

 M. Alfred Wesmael, Prof. S. M. Tracy, F. M. Boyntou, 

 Rev. A. B. Langlois, Prof. John Macoun, and many other 

 correspondents. 



This herbarium, now aggregating about 20,000 mounted 

 sheets of flowering plants and ferns, is increased by some 

 4,000 numbers of cryptogams, including Von Thuemen's 

 Mycotheca, Ravenel's own copies of his Fungi Carolinian! 

 and Fungi Americani, several centuries of Berkeley's Brit- 

 ish Fungi, etc. As has been stated, it is a collection more 

 properly maintained by the Garden «than the School of 

 Botany, and it is already far too valuable to be kept in so 

 unsafe a building as that now devoted to the School of 

 Botany. For these reasons, and in view of the very 

 intimate relations established by their founder between the 

 School of Botany and the Missouri Botanical Garden, and 

 now cemented by the mutually helpful steps that have been 

 taken by the Directors of the University, and the Trustees of 

 the Garden, I would respectfully recommend that the Direct- 

 ors of the University authorize me to propose to the Board 

 of Trustees of the Garden that this collection may be placed 

 at the Garden as a nucleus for the important general her- 

 barium to be accumulated there, on condition that the 

 School of Botany be reimbursed for expenditures for paper, 

 alcohol, etc., used in mounting the specimens properly. 

 In making this recommendation, I feel that the best in- 

 terests of science will be subserved by the proposed action, 

 and that the School of Botany will always find the collec- 

 tion as accessible as though it were in its own possession, 

 while the safety and general usefulness of the specimens 

 will be greatly increased. 



