Jan., 1922. Annual Report of the Director. 23 



Gilbert Grosvenor, editor of the National Geographic Magazine, pre- 

 sented six copies of a new map of Eastern Asia and six copies of a 

 new map of South America, which will be utilized for exhibition 

 purposes in the halls devoted to those subjects. The collection of 

 photographs was greatly enriched by an interesting series of a 

 hundred photographs taken by Mr. L. Winternitz of Chicago among 

 the Seminole of Florida and in India, Burma, and other oriental 

 countries, and which he presented to the Museum. 



Among the notable collections received by the Department of 

 Botany during the past year is the balance of the Harper Herbarium, 

 presented to the Museum by the late Dr. Edward T. Harper and 

 Susan A. Harper. A well lighted room 21x63 ft. has been assigned 

 for its organization and installation. This herbarium consists of about 

 40,000 specimens, chiefly fungi ; 6,000 photographs of fungi ; a number 

 of published exsiccati, and works of reference ; and a mass of data and 

 manuscript pertaining to the collections. A Preparator has been ap- 

 pointed to organize the material for cataloguing, and to date 6,585 

 specimens have been catalogued. The exsiccati include, among others : 

 Fungi Selecti and Myxomycetes — O. Jaap, (700 specimens) ; New 

 York Fungi — Shear, (331 specimens) ; Fungi Selecti — Torrend, (400 

 specimens) ; North American Fungi — Ellis and Everhart, (4,000 speci- 

 mens) ; Microtheca Brasilensis — Ule, (2,000 specimens) ; Lichenes 

 Boreali-Americani — Cummings, Williams and Seymour, (300 speci- 

 mens) ; Uredineae — Arthur and Holway, (200 specimens) ; Central 

 American Fungi — C. L. Smith, (224 specimens) ; Economic Fungi — 

 Seymour and Earle, (661 specimens) ; Phycotheca Bor.— American — 

 Collins, Holden and Setchell, (2,425 specimens); Fungi Europaei — 

 Rabenhorst — Winter; Fungi Columbiani — Bartholomew, (5,324 speci- 

 mens). Other important collections received during the year are: 

 the Nuttall, the Knopf and the Millspaugh Santa Catalina plants 

 (1,960) ; the Heller California and Oregon plants (517) ; Britton and 

 Cowell Cuban plants (183); Britton, Britton and Hazen, Trinidad 

 plants (148); Buchtien Bolivian plants (472); and the Maxon and 

 Killip Jamaican collections (1,276). The regional distribution of fully 

 organized material is shown in the following table. The tabulation in- 

 cludes only such areas as have been augmented in 1921, and in nowise 

 represents the entire herbarium. 



Added Total in Added Total in 



this Her- this Her- 



Locality Year barium Locality Year barium 



NORTH AMERICA Alberta 5 1,278 



Alaska 6 129 British Columbia 15 1,501 



Baranoff Island 1 15 New Brunswick 3 799 



