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purch^-r t hroug h Dr. T. Michelson of the Bureau of American 

 Ethnology ' form a valuable addition to the sacred bundles from 



other Indian tribes in the collections. 



The Department of Botany received the following important addi- 

 tions to its herbarium during the year: The highly valuable "Centurice 

 Species Blancoanae/' distributed specially by the Philippine Bureau 

 of Sciences, to illustrate, by topotypic plants, the species treated by 

 Blanco in his Flora of the Philippines, and in addition to these 374 

 further Philippine species; " Plants Wilsonianae," 753 plants of China 

 and Japan; 457 Philippine plants from a series specially collected for the 

 Arnold Arboretum; the herbarium of Professor Hall, formerly State 

 Geologist of New York, 1,311 plants representing the Flora of Troy, 

 N. Y.; Earl E. SherrT, 446 plants of Illinois; Dr. Robert Ridgway, 267 

 plants of Ill in ois; C. F. Millspaugh, 117 plants of Wisconsin, and 182 

 rth Carolina; F. C. Gates, 390 plants of Michigan; Florence Beck- 

 th, 85 plants of Illinois; Walter Fischer, 399 plants of Argentina; 

 New York Botanical Garden, 363 plants of Jamaica (Harris); A. A. 

 Heller, 306 plants of California and Oregon; and Ira W. Clokey, 170 

 plants of Colorado. On account of lack of preparatorial assistance for 

 poisoning and mounting specimens the additions to the herbarium fall 

 far below the usual annual quota. The regional distribution of fully 

 organized material added to the herbarium in 1918, is shown in the 

 following tabulation: 



locality Added th]g TouI . m 



NORTH AMERICA: Year Herbarium 



Assiniboia I 21 



Manitoba 3 262 



Ontario 3 1,670 



United States: 



Alabama 8 1,468 



Arizona 9 8,221 



California 288 25,583 



Magdalena Islands 17 33 



Colorado 11 12,585 



Connecticut 38 692 



Carolina, North 211 4-754 



Delaware 1 1.338 



District of Columbia 44 2,712 



Florida 5 20,331 



Georgia n 3,995 



Idaho 4 3,655 



Illinois 833 27,968 



Indiana 102 6,943 



Kansas 6 546 



Kentucky 3 1,373 



