observation of grasses in connection with a project on the grasses 

 of Illinois undertaken by him and Dr. Robert A. Evers of the 

 Illinois Natural History Survey at Urbana. Research, planning, 

 and correspondence related to the exhibition program occupied 

 a large portion of his time. 



Miss Edith M. Vincent, Research Librarian, spent a great 

 amount of time in collating for binding all foreign botanical journals. 

 In addition to her regular duties she aided many correspondents by 

 finding and sending to them descriptions of and information about 

 exotic plants and their uses. 



Accessions— Botany 



The largest gifts to the phanerogamic herbarium this year consisted 

 of 2,534 specimens from the United States collected by Holly Reed 

 Bennett of Chicago and 594 specimens from Missouri collected by 

 Ernest J. Palmer of Webb City, Missouri. Major collections of 

 plants acquired through exchange were received from New York 

 Botanical Garden (1,160), University of Michigan (1,073), Herbario 

 Barbosa Rodrigues in Brazil (718), and the British Museum (Natural 

 History) in London (481). Notable purchases were acquired of 

 plants from South Africa and Australia. Some important accessions 

 in the cryptogamic herbarium were 933 specimens of cryptogams 

 received in exchange from the Herbarium of the University of 

 California at Berkeley, 100 mosses purchased with funds of the 

 Donald Richards Fund from G. 0. K. Sainsbury of Gavelock North, 

 New Zealand, and 96 mosses received in exchange from the Botanical 

 Museum in Copenhagen. Additions to the wood collection totaled 

 185 wood specimens received through gifts and exchange. The most 

 notable accessions were 107 woods of the Netherlands, Surinam, and 

 Indonesia from the Institute of Forestry, Wageningen, Netherlands, 

 and 20 woods of Pakistan from the Ministry of Agriculture, Karachi. 

 The seed collection increased considerably in size and usefulness 

 through the incorporation of 1,362 samples during the year. Chief 

 among these were 772 seed samples from Iowa State College and 

 214 samples from the National Botanic Gardens of South Africa. 

 Outstanding among the several accessions in the economic col- 

 lections were samples of spices presented by American Spice Trade 

 Association of Chicago and by S. B. Penick and Company of New 

 York City for use in the projected spice-exhibit. Among donors of 

 photographs were the Department of Tourists and Publicity of New 

 Zealand and the United States Department of Agriculture. 



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