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as in the preceding year. Under the circumstances the increase 

 in the herbarium has been satisfactory, although especially on 

 account of the lack of personnel the number of Philippine plants 

 added is less than for several past years and is 4,857. These 

 have been received by collection, by gift, for identification, and by 

 transmission from other departments of the Government. The 

 important collections of Philippine material are: 



Collections of employees of the Bureau of Science 2,348 



Collections of employees of the Bureau of Forestry 1,551 



Miscellaneous collections of Messrs. Wester, Octubre, 

 Sandkuhl, Topping, Baker, Eskridge, Gates, and 

 Vanoverbergh, and of Mrs. Clemens 958 



Foreign accessions. — The extra-Philippine material received, 

 consisting of 6,356 specimens from all sources, has been poisoned 

 and mounted and will be distributed into the herbarium. The 

 large Formosan collection, purchased from Abbe Faurie, is of 

 especial value for purposes of comparison. Likewise a valuable 

 lot of material, very rich in cotypes, was received from the Royal 

 Botanic Garden in Calcutta. 



Foreign accessions during the past year were as follows : 



P. Magnus, miscellaneous fungi in exchange 95 



Mrs. M. S. Clemens, Chinese plants for identification 2,404 



P. Nelson, Guam plants for identification 43 



Native collector, Sarawak, Bornean plants for identifica- 

 tion 216 



Dr. Fred Baker, Malayan ferns for identification 22 



Dr. J. H. Maiden, Sydney Botanical Garden, Australian 



plants in exchange 99 



Rev. C. King, New Guinea plants for identification 78 



Zenker, Kamerun plants, T. O. Weigel, exchange 98 



A. F. G. Kerr, Siamese plants in exchange 209 



I. H. Burkill, Singapore, Malayan plants in exchange.... 226 



R. Kanehira, Polynesian plants for idsntification 91 



T. Kawakami, Formosan plants in exchange 145 



Calcutta Botanic Garden, Malay Peninsula plants in 



exchange 354 



U. S. Department of Agriculture, Meyer's Chinese 



plants in exchange 139 



Abbe U. Faurie, Formosan plants, purchased 2,090 



Dr. Fred Baker, Formosan plants, presented 47 



Important extra-Philippine collections on hand urgently in 

 need of study are the Robinson Amboina collection of approxi- 

 mately 1,200 numbers; about 3,000 numbers from Borneo, se- 

 cured through the courtesy of Mr. J. C. Moulton, of the Sarawak 

 Museum; and small collection.^ from Polynesia and New Guinea. 



