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MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 



the unusual number of visitors in November being duo to 

 the advertised display of chrysanthemums already men- 

 tioned. The relation of Sunday to week-day visitors, who 

 this year reached 34 per cent of the total, is graphically 



DIAGRAM D. 



SUNDAY VISITORS. 



shown on Diagram D. During the year, 716 copies of the 

 httle Handbook of the Garden were bought by visitors. 



THE HERBARIUM. 



As in 1905, the herbarium has been enlarged by the ad- 

 dition of nmch important material, including the usual 

 current collections procured by purchase. Early in the 

 season the herbarium of the late Julicn Reverchon was 

 bought, and perhaps one-fourth the collection, especially 

 rich in the plants of Texas, has been mounted. Other 

 large items of the year have been 4,600 additional sheets 

 of the Eggert Herbarium, 3,356 sheets of local specimens 

 collected by the late Nicholas Riehl, acquired many years 

 since by Mr. Shaw but not heretofore included in the cen- 

 sus of the herbarium, and 925 duplicate western plants 

 collected by Dr. David Griffiths and presented by the Na- 

 tional Herbarium. 



The incorporated additions for 1906 amount to 35,422 

 sneets of specimens, of which 6,726, valued (unmounted) 

 at !$336.30, were presented or received by way of exchange; 

 2,812, valued at $140.60, were collected by employees; and 



