50 EEPOET OF NATIONAL MUSEUM^ 1915. 



tributed in 30 sets of 200 numbers each, and as the identifications are 

 based on the critical studies of Prof. A. S. Hitchcock and Mrs. Agnes 

 Chase the value of the sets will everywhere be recognized. About 

 1,500 specimens of phanerogams obtained in the western United 

 States by Dr. W. W. Eggleston are especially noteworthy, as are 675 

 phanerogams from the United States and western Canada collected 

 by Prof. Hitchcock. 



The New York Botanical Garden contributed 1,649 specimens, 

 mainly West Indian but embracing a set of 262 mosses from the 

 Philippine Islands. From the Bureau of Science in Manila were 

 received 4,830 specimens, obtained chiefly in the Philippines though 

 about 930 were from China, the Malay Peninsula and Kamerun. A 

 valuable collection of approximately 8,000 plants from the Canary 

 Islands, obtained under her direction a number of years ago, was 

 presented by Mrs. O. F. Cook. About 3,000 specimens from South 

 America, gathered by Dr. J. N. Eose in the course of his investigation 

 of the cactus flora of western South America during the summer of 

 1914, were contributed by the Carnegie Institution of Washington. 



Among other important accessions were 2,500 miscellaneous phan- 

 erogams, the gift of Mr. D. LeRoy Topping, of Manila, P. I.; 500 

 algae from North Carolina, deposited by the Bureau of Fisheries; 

 610 specimens of Arizona plants presented by Mrs. Walter Hough, 

 of Washington; and 395 plants from Maine presented by Dr. Dana 

 W. Fellows, of Portland, Me. Mr. Paul C. Standley and Mr. H. C. 

 Bollman collected 790 plants for the Museum in New Mexico ; about 

 3,900 specimens of New Mexican plants were obtained from the 

 New Mexican Agricultural College in exchange; and 585 specimens 

 from Mexico were purchased. 



The number of plants mounted for the general herbarium during 

 the year was 17,700. The greater part of these were also registered 

 in the permanent record books and await distribution to their iDroper 

 places in the cases, as do also the phanerogams of the Charles JSIohr 

 collection, which have now been made ready for this purpose. The 

 work of arrangement has, as usual, been greatly delayed by more 

 urgent matters of routine, such as attention to the current accessions, 

 the identification of miscellaneous specimens sent to the Museum 

 from many sources, and the preparation of specimens for lending 

 and for exchanges. The withdrawal of Dr. Edward L. Greene's 

 collection, which had been on deposit for some 10 years, released 

 sufficient space to permit of provision for a continuous arrangement 

 of the entire phanerogamic study series, with some additional room 

 for relieving the congestion which was becoming rather serious. 



The segregation of type and duplicate type specimens of phanero- 

 gams, referred to in the last report, was continued by Mr. Standley, 

 and more than 2,000 specimens were labeled, recorded and added to 



