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Condition of the collections. With the aid of the assistant 

 botanist, Louis Robbins, it has been possible to continue the 

 rearrangement of the material in the herbarium, making it more 

 accessible for study, and in addition to the mounting of the current 

 collections, exchanges and contributions, a large number of valuable 

 specimens of the Sheldon herbarium (presented in 1914) have been 

 mounted and placed in the herbarium. Further progress in defi- 

 nitely marking the many type specimens has been made. 



Additions to the herbarium. The number of specimens which 

 have been added to the herbarium from all sources during the past 

 year is 1457. Of these, 1146 were received in exchange or as con- 

 tributions. Three hundred eleven specimens were collected by 

 the staff in the counties of Albany, Cayuga, Erie, Essex, Franklin, 

 Hamilton. Madison. Monroe, Nassau, Niagara, Oneida, Otsego, 

 Ontario, Onondaga, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Seneca, Queens, Wayne 

 and Warren. The number of species added which were new to the 

 herbarium was 128, which includes 33 specimens of ferns and 

 flowering plants of the northeastern states and 95 species of fungi. 



Identifications. The State Botanist's office has been called upon 

 to identify and report upon 437 specimens of plants, including many 

 fungi. These identifications were asked for by 108 different persons. 



