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L. Woolman. Acanthotehon Stimpsoni, Acanthotehon (sp. ?). Palmocaris typus, 



from the Carboniferous of M:izon Creek, 111. 

 Joseph Willcox. Thirteen trays of Tertiary fossils from Florida. 

 Conchological Section A. N. S. One hundred and forty five trays Miocene fossils 



from the Touraine (collected by G. DoUfus.) 



Plants (Recent). 



Baron F. von Miiller, Melbourne, Australia ; through Thomas Meehan, 471 species 

 Australian plants, mostly new to the collection. 



Prof. C. S. Sargent. Myginda i>ttes;rifnlia, Cratcegus berberidifolia, Eugenia 

 monticohi, Drypetes glaticn, from Florida and Louisiana. 



J. Donnell Smith. Halesia parvijiora. from Florida. 



Prof. Thomas C. Porter. Rhizomoipha subcoriicaU ? a fungus attached to timbers, 

 Dickinson Iron Mines, 750 feet below the surface; I(j species of Pennsylvania 

 plants. 



Prof. N. L. Britton. of Torrey Herbarium, N. Y. 14 species of North American 

 CyperaceiE ; Housionia Crofii(B, new species from Texas. 



Isaac Burk. 22 species plants from vicinity of Richmond, Va. ; 20 species plants 

 from ballast grounds, Philadelphia and Camden ; 5 species plants cultivated in 

 Horticultural Grounds, Fairmount Park. 



Mrs. Anna T. Martin, widow of Dr. Geo. Martin. The extensive collection 

 of Fungi made by Dr. Martin, all neatly mounted in pockets, numbered to cor- 

 respond with catalogues accompanying; contained in 96 boxes, comprising 

 404l) specimens, and representing probably 3700 species; also 17 Centuries of 

 Ellis' North American Fungi. 



Drs. Geo. A. Rex and Dr. H. Wingate. 18th and 19th Centuries of Ellis' North 

 American Fungi, making the series complete to this date. 



Miss Adele M. Fielde, Swatow, China. Flowering and leafy shoots and cones of 

 Cuniiinghaniia Sitiensis and Pintis Sinensis. 



Prof. E. L. Greene. 48 species of new or little known California plants, mostly 

 from the islands of Santa Cruz and San Miguel. 



Dr. Geo. Vasey. 28 species plants, mostly cultivated from seed in the Agricult- 

 ural Grounds at Washington; remarkable fasciation of a flowering raceme 

 Sophora secnndijlora. from Texas. 



Dr. A. Gattinger. 12 species of Tennessee plants. 



Rev. Thomas Morong, through Isaac C. Martindale. 17 species q{ Potamogeton, 

 being autlienically named duplicates from the collection of Dr. J. W. Robbins. 



Isaac C. Martmdale. Cyperus loiigus, collected by Rugel at Austin, Texas. 



Prof. F. L. Harvey. Cal/d pdhistris, from Orono, Maine. 



Rev. Mr. Butler, tlirough Thomas Meehan. 20 species plants from Labrador. 



Aubrey H. Smith. 27 species plants collected by him near Warm Springs, N. C. 



Richard H. Day. Actinelhi acaulis and Clematis alpiiia, from Colorado. 



Dr. J. W. Eckfeldt. 30 species of N. American Lichens, of which 16 are new to 

 the collection ; 34 species of Hungarian Lichens, all new to the collection. 



Dr. J. Bernard Brinton. Rhus semialata, var. Osbeckii, cultivated, a native of China 

 and Japan. 



W. A. StowelL VVoodsia obtusa and var. Darlingtouii of the same, N. Jersey. 



G. W. Tryon, Jr. Mikania scandens, from Montgomery Co., Pa. 



Thomas Meehan. 8 species plants collected by Mrs. Meehan in Florida and Lou- 

 isiana, iiiFebruary 1887; Phoradendron juniperinitfii with berries, parasitic on 

 yuniperus occidenialis, collected in Arizona by Dr. Robert Douglass; b^ species 

 cultivated plants, mostly new to the collection; 449 species plants collected in 

 South America (mostly in Bolivia), by H. H. Rusby in 1885 and 1886, of which 

 187 species new to the Herbarium ; series of Cinchona plants from Bolivia, South 

 America, consisting of 8 species and 7 varieties or hybrids, collected by H. H. 

 Rusby. 



John H. Redfield. 361 species of North American plants from his collection, 

 most of them supplying gaps in the Academy's Herbarium ; 131 species coUec- 



