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be new to the herbarium, 39 of them being of newly represented 

 genera. Of these 3,650 species, 294 are North American, 1,269 are 

 ]\Iexican and South American, and 2,087 are from the Old World. 



The usual detailed statement of the contributions will appear in 

 the list of additions to the museum. In specifying here some of 

 the more important, the first place must be given to the very large 

 accession to our representation of the Orient Flora, in the plants 

 collected by Bornmiiller and Sintenis, in Greece, Macedonia, Asia 

 Minor, Armenia, Kurdistan and Mesopotamia, and purchased for 

 the Academy by the liberality of Mr. Charles E. Smith and a 

 few other friends of botanical science. These amount to 1,226 

 species, of which 567 are new to us. Dr. Morong's collections in 

 Paraguay, sent us during the year, amount to 459 species, more 

 than half being new to us. Pringle's Mexican collections, made in 

 1891, are of the same carefully selected and well prepared speci- 

 mens as heretofore, and reach 266 species, 125 being new to us. 

 Our faithful correspondent, Mr. T. S. Brandegee, of San Francisco, 

 has sent us 268 species from the peninsula of Lower California, of 

 which nearly one-half are novelties to us. From the University of 

 Pennsylvania we have received 148 species, collected by Dr. Joseph 

 T. Rothrock in Jamaica and the Bahama Islands, in his voyage 

 made in the winter of 1890 and 1891. Mr. Meeh an has presented 

 us with another instalment of Baron von Miiller's Australian 

 plants, amounting to 135 species. 



These additions have all been properly mounted and distributed 

 to their proper places in the herbarium. The labor and time 

 demanded by this work, have prevented much progress in the 

 mounting of the older portions of the herbarium, yet something 

 has been done in this direction, and the work will be continued as 

 opportunity^may permit. 



The botanical collections made in Greenland by the Peary Relief 

 Expedition, Mr. William E. Meehan, botanist, during the past 

 summer, are still under study ; they will be included in the report of 

 next year. Mr. Stewardson Brown, who so carefully studied the 

 collections made by Dr. Burk during the expedition of 1891, is 

 engaged upon those of 1892, and reports that the specimens are in 

 much better condition than those of the former year, the circumstances 

 attending the collection having been much more favorable. 



Respectfully submitted, 



John H. Redfield, 



Conservator. 



