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Added this Tj >tal in 



Year. Herb. 



Santo Domingo (W. I.), 43 163 



Tennessee, So 460 



Texas 771 2,170 



Trinidad (W. I.), . 8 '. 40 



Turk's Island (Bahamas) . 11 11 



Tobago (W. I.), 32 34 



U. S. Colombia 2.294 2, 3*2 



Utah, 60 285 



Vermont, ... 98 650 



Venezuela, 324 S18 



Vancouver (B. C), 9 19 



Virginia, 79 344 



West Virginia, ir 1,088 



Wisconsin 80 399 



Washington (state) 358 2,056 



Wyoming, 19 136 



Yellowstone Park, 20 232 



Of the collections made, purchased, or received by exchange 

 during the year, all are now mounted and installed except about 

 1,130 specimens that have arrived during the past few days. Of the 

 Patterson herbarium purchased in 1900, 4,847 sheets have been 

 mounted this year, and 15,462 previously, making 20,209 sheets so 

 far placed in the regular herbarium installation; it is estimated that 

 some 15,000 sheets still remain to be cared for. Of the Heller herb- 

 barium, 1,721 sheets have been mounted this year, and 2,842 pre- 

 viously, leaving some 10,000 sheets still to be mounted and installed. 

 The work of installing the paleontological collections in the cases 

 described in last year's report has been practically completed dur- 

 ing the year, the principal labor involved being the mounting of 

 invertebrate and other small fossils upon tablets of manila board 

 and installing these. About twenty-eight hundred (2,800) tablets 

 have been so prepared. The tablets have a dull black finish, and 

 upon each tablet is printed in aluminum ink the label of the specimen 

 which it bears. The sizes of the tablets follow a unit of two inches, 

 eight sizes being employed, as follows: 2x2, 2x4, 4x2, 4x4, 4x6, 

 6x6, 4x8, and 8x8 inches. By such an employment of units, 

 specimens of different sizes can be inserted anywhere in a series 

 without disturbing its horizontal or vertical arrangement. The gain 

 in prominence of the specimens and appearance of the collection as a 

 whole through employment of the black tablets, has been consid- 

 erable, and the general effect proven very satisfactory. Case labels 

 to the number of ninety have been provided for the collection, and 

 about two thousand specimens designed for study purposes have 



