MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BULLETIN 23 
likewise Harrison Fellow until he resigned to accept the 
Assistantship at the Gray Herbarium of Harvard University 
_ in 1894. He took his Master’s degree from Harvard in 1899 - 
and the degree of Ph. D. from the University of Berlin in 
1901. He held the John Thornton Kirkland Fellowship 
from Harvard in 1899-1901 and was instructor in Botany in 
that University from 1902-1905. Previous to coming to St. 
Louis he was Assistant Curator, Department of Botany, of 
the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, and also 
held an Assistant Professorship in Botany at the University 
of Chicago. Dr. Greenman is a Fellow of the American 
Association for the Advancement of Science, member of the 
Botanical Society of America, the American Museum Asso- 
ciation, Botanists of the Central States, New England 
Botanical Club and Sigma Xi. He has published “Mono- 
graphie der nord- und centralamerikanischen Arten der Gat- 
tung Senecio ;” “Revision of Galium;” “New or Noteworthy 
Spermatophytes from Mexico, Central America and the West 
Indies ;” “Diagnoses of Spermatophytes chiefly from Mexico 
and Central America;” “(New Senecionese from Cuba.” Also 
in joint authorship with Dr. B. L. Robinson, numerous 
papers on the flora of western and southwestern United 
States, Mexico and Central America. He is recognized as 
an authority in systematic botany both in this country and 
abroad, and his specialization in the flora of the southwest 
makes him particularly fitted for the development of this 
field, which is contemplated in the near future by the Mis- 
souri Botanical Garden. 
_ THE HERBARIUM. 
The herbarium, including all groups of plants, contains 
approximately 700,000 mounted specimens. Its origin dates 
from 1858, when Mr. Henry Shaw, the founder of the Gar- 
den, at the instigation of Dr. George Engelmann, authorized 
the purchase of the private herbarium of Professor Johann 
Jakob Bernhardi, of Erfurt, Germany. After being fully 
organized the Bernhardi herbarium was found to consist of 
nearly 70,000 specimens ; and while the majority of the plants 
are native European species, yet the collection contains a 
relatively large percentage of American plants which were 
obtained on early expeditions to this country in the latter 
part, of the eighteenth and the early part of the nineteenth 
century. The collection is, therefore, one of particular inter- 
est to American botanical students. 
