Accessions— Botany 



The largest gift to the phanerogamic herbarium consisted of 1,605 

 specimens from the United States collected by Holly Reed Bennett. 

 Major collections of plants acquired through exchange were received 

 from the University of Michigan (757), Dr. Eberhard Kausel of San- 

 tiago, Chile (498), and the Jardim Botanico do Rio de Janeiro (251). 

 Notable collections of plants from Pakistan and Australia were ac- 

 quired by purchase. Important accessions to the cryptogamic her- 

 barium were 208 bryophytes from the University of Tennessee and 

 135 fungi from the University of California, both received in con- 

 tinuation of exchange. The wood collection was increased by 309 

 specimens and the seed collection by 1,153 additions. 



Care of the Collections— Botany 



During the year 12,750 plants were mounted and added to the phan- 

 erogamic herbarium. Mounting and poisoning were done by Miss 

 Olive Doig, Mrs. Jennie Pletinckx, Mrs. Ann Bigelow, and Nils Sieg- 

 bahn, aided by Robert Yule and, for part of the year, by Miss Cath- 

 erine Sanford, Miss Judith Stark, Miss Susan VandeCastle, and 

 Albert Gilbert, student assistants. Mrs. EfRe M. Schugman and 

 Miss Alice Middleton mounted 9,756 specimens of cryptogams and 

 prepared them for filing in the general collection. During the year 

 a total of 210 wood specimens was sent out in exchange. Curator 

 Thieret was assisted in the care of the wood, seed, and economic col- 

 lections by Mrs. Ann Bigelow and, for part of the year, by Miss 

 Judith Stark and Peter Ogle, Antioch College students. Work on 

 restoration of the type-photograph collection was continued by As- 

 sistant J. S. Daston. Mrs. Lenore B. Warner continued to catalogue 

 and file prints of the type-photograph collection and handle orders. 



Exhibits— Botany 



Work of reconditioning and installing a total of twenty-one tree ex- 

 hibits in Charles F. Millspaugh Hall (Hall 26, North American 

 Trees), which is temporarily closed for alteration, was done mainly 

 by Curator of Exhibits Emil Sella and Preparator Walter Huebner. 

 Curator Sella also spent some time preparing for exhibition in Hall 26 

 restorations of original leafy branches of sugar pine (Pinus Lamberti- 

 ana), western red cedar {Thuja plicata), incense cedar (Ldhocedrus 

 decurrens), Port Orford white cedar {Chamaecyparis Lawsoniana) , 



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