FIFTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT 25 



progressed satisfactorily. Mr. Merrill has completed a study 

 of the Robinson Amboina collections, and his very exhaustive 

 and critical paper entitled An Interpretation of Rumphius's 

 Herbarium Amboinense is in the hands of the printer. 



The revision of all the Philippine species described by Blanco 

 and by Llanos has been completed. Work on this project has 

 been in progress for the past four years. 



The herharimn. — The growth of the herbarium has been satis- 

 factory in spite of the fact that the European war has reduced 

 exchanges to a minimum. A general rearrangement of the mate- 

 rial is in progress, with the object of making specimens from 

 special regions more easily available. 



Philippine accessions. — Specimens have been received by col- 

 lection, gift, for identification, and by transmission from other 

 branches of the Government. The collections of Philippine 

 material are : 



Collections of the employees of the Bureau of Science.... 2,512 

 Collections of the employees of the Bureau of Forestry.. 2,991 

 Miscellaneous collections of Messrs. C. F. Baker, 11. 



Sandkuhl, C. A, Wenzel, N. Teodoro, M. Sablaya, C. 



M. Weber, R. Lete, P. J. Wester, and Mrs. Clemens.... 2,141 



Total specimens 7,644 



Foreign accessions. — The foreign accessions are as follows : 



Mrs. Clemens, Kinabalu expedition, Borneo 1,839 



Mr. Topping, Kinabalu ferns 560 



Miscellaneous fungi from the U. S. Department of Agri- 

 culture, exchange 708 



Miscellaneous Malayan duplicates from the Botanic 



Garden, Buitenzorg, exchange 152 



Miscellaneous duplicates from the Botanic Garden, Sin- 

 gapore, exchange 194 



Bornean collections of Messrs. F. W. Foxworthy and A. 



Villamil 286 



Guam plants, collected by A. Guerrero 88 



Kinabalu collections of G. A. G. Haslam 101 



Kwangtung collections of E. D. Merrill 601 



Western Australian plants, ex herb. A. Morison from 



Edinburgh Botanic Garden, exchange 1,831 



Total specimens 6,594 



The total accessions for the year are 14,238 specimens, which 

 have been poisoned, mounted, and so distributed as to be avail- 

 able to all who have occasion to consult them. The number of 

 specimens in the herbarium now totals 172,518, of which about 

 73,000 are extra-Philippine. 



