and photographs in part published in " One Thousand American Fungi " ; 

 (6) color plates by Miss Violet Eea of Worcester, England, and Mrs. E. B. 

 Blackford; (7) photographs from W. A. Murrill, C. H. Kauffman, H. C. 

 Beardslee, and others — about one thousand in all; (8) a remarkable volume of 

 paintings of Irish lichens and fungi with notes by Templeton who is men- 

 tioned by J. T. Mackay in the " Flora Hibemica" (1836) ; (9) a series of 

 models of fungi by Miss Eleanor C. Allen in twelve groups in natural colors 

 and setting; (10) a personal herbarium of about two thousand specimens in 

 part contributed by C. H. Kauffman, Miss Gertrude BurUngham, Miss Ann 

 Hibbard, and H. C. Beardslee — all indexed; (11) lichen literature and exsic- 

 cati of L. E. Schaerer, L. Babenhorst, C. C. Plitt, Pastor Lehnert of Baltimore, 

 and Edward Tuckerman; and (12) sixteen manuscript letters from L. D. de 

 Schweinitz to John Le Conte, from Mcllvaine, and from Peck (in part 

 through Miss Caroline Herbst, daughter of Dr. WUliam Herbst). 



The value of many of the works on the shelves is enhanced by the previotis 

 ownership and signatures of such men as C. Montagne, J. H. LeveiUe, L. E. 

 and Charles Tulasne, W. J. Hooker, E. M. Fries, M. J. Berkeley, M. C. Cooke, 

 C. H. Peck, W. E. Gerard, W. G. Farlow, Edward Tuckerman, M. Fiinfstiick, 

 A. Zahlbruckner, E. Boudier, and Isaac Walton. 



In conclusion, it is the fond hope of the writer that a patron of the arts 

 and sciences will be found in the near future willing to aid in producing a 

 volume now in active preparation on the boleti of Xorth America, for which 

 we have fifty water-colors done from fresh specimens by Krieger, with the 

 literature and descriptions. It is also my hope that I might in such an event 

 be permitted to add reproductions of the pictures made for Farlow, as well 

 as some of those in the George E. Morris collection housed in the Museum at 

 Salem, Massachusetts, including a few originals by Charles H. Peck, Mcllvaine, 

 Mrs. E. B. Blackford and copies of Massee's English species which occur in 

 this country made by Miss Violet Eea, adding too a few pictures from the 

 older literature of Eostkovius, Bulliard, and Schaeffer. Such a work in color 

 as an artistic production ought to excel anything hitherto published and 

 constitute a fit tribute to the memory of the beloved, and everywhere honored, 

 Charles Horton Peck, one of the fathers of American mycology, who gave us 

 our most valuable monograph on this group. 



HOWABD A, KELLY. 

 December 15, 1924. 



