

22 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN, 



In addition to the herbarium and exsiccatae, the fol- 

 lowing material should be noted as of the same general 

 character : 



w 



Wood specimens of various sizes . . 800 valued at 8 55 00 

 Wood veneers. 



Spurr's cabinet of veneers from the 



Jesup collection 541 veneers, 



Hough, American Woods, 10 fascicles 750 " 



Michel, Feine Holzschnitte, 2 u 285 4 * 



Nordlinger Querschnitte, 11 u 1,100 « 



Sykyta, Das Holz • . . 1 " 25 u 





Tokyo Imperial Museum, 



Useful Woods . . . . 1 " 255 " 





Together 25 " 2,956 " valued at 6175 00 



Microscope slides. 



Penhallow, N. A. Coniferae .... 268 slides, 

 Other slides 958- u 



Together 1226 « valued at $285 00 





Total valuation 



$515 00 



Wh 



composition of this miscellany has been considerably 

 changed through the withdrawal of the wood-wedges men- 

 tioned in an earlier report * as forming part of the Eugel- 



collection, — ownership of which has been asserted 



mann 



8 



cicles of Hough's American "Woods, and of 174 microscope 

 slides illustrating in part the studies of floral ecology which 

 Dr. Harris is prosecuting. 





THE LIBRARY. 



No special appropriation having been made for the library 

 in 1904, few large sets have this year been purchased, but 

 difficulty has not been found in providing for the purchase 

 of procurable works needed for current research or of de- 

 sirable new publications, and limitation of the use of what 



* Kept. Mo. Bot. Gard. 5: 15. 







