Jan., 1910. 



Annual Report of the Director. 



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ciation with Dr. Asa Gray, Dr. George Thurber, Dr. John Torrey and 

 other early botanists, was able to secure many rare plants and sets 

 of plants. His herbarium consists of nearly 25,000 sheets, largely 

 from the west, north and southwest, Mexico and Florida. It con- 

 tains long series of the plants of Bean, Berlandier, Bigelow, Bischoff, 

 Bolander, Brendel, Burk, Canby, Chapman, Clinton, Curtiss, Garber, 

 Ghiesbright, Hall and Harbour, Sutton Hayes, Kellogg, Kenney, 

 Lemon, Leow, Mann, John Stuart Mill, Palmer, Parry and Palmer, 

 Pope, Porter, Pringle, Regel, Reverchon, Thurber, Vasey, Ward, 

 Wolf, and Wright. This herbarium comprises collections made 

 principally from 1840 to 1880, thus directly supplementing that of 

 Patterson, secured by the Museum some years ago, which dates from 

 1880 to 1900. The Rothrock herbarium is mostly mounted and 6,000 

 sheets have already been put through and placed in the organized 

 herbarium of the Museum. The other notable herbaria now in- 

 corporated with that of the Museum are those of Dr. Arthur Schott, 

 M. S. Bebb, H. N. Patterson, C. F. Millspaugh, A. A. Heller, John K. 

 Small, L. J. Wahlstedt, A. S. Hitchcock, and the University of Chicago. 

 Other series secured to the herbarium this year are: Clemens, Philip- 

 pine, 1,150; Bloomer, Arizona, 900; von Tuerckheim, Guatemala, 406; 

 Conzatti, Mexico, 185; Purpus, Mexico, 523; C. R. Barnes and Land, 

 Mexico, 303; Stewardson Brown, Bermuda, 150; S. S. Visher, Dakota, 

 198; Botanic Gardens, Natal, 105; Fiebrig, Paraguay, 155; Tracy, 

 Gulf States, 507; Britton and Harris, Jamaica, 770; J. T. Rothrock, 

 Bahamas, 162 ; L. J. K. Brace, Bahamas, 231 ; Percy Wilson, Bahamas, 

 489; R. A. Dixon, Illinois, 400; Wright, Illinois, 139; J. H. Maiden, 

 New South Wales, 100; W. E. Broadway, Trinidad and Tobago, 450; 

 J. Macoun, Canada, 335, and H. H. Smith, Georgia, 479. Arranged 

 geographically the specimens added to the organized herbarium dur- 

 ing the year are as follows: 



Alaska .... 

 Canada (in general) 



Alberta . 



British Columbia 



Xewfoundland 



Quebec . 

 United States 



Alabama 



Arizona. 



* Totals are from these few geographic localities only. This does not tabulate the whole 

 herbarium. 



