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Systematic collections. The herbarium contains over 150,000 

 sheets of plants principally from North America, the West 

 Indies and Europe; comprises the former private herbariums 

 of Dr Arthur Schott, notable for its United States boundary 

 survey and Isthmus of Darien survey plants, and his Yucatec 

 and Hungarian series; that of Mr M. S. Bebb, notable for 

 the largest representation of the genus Salix in this coun- 

 trv; that of Mr Arthur A. Heller and of Mr Harrv N. Pat- 

 terson, notable for its complete representation of the plants of 

 Gray's manual and its full sets of Curtiss, Pringle, Cusick, Chap- 

 man, Hall & Harbour, the Gaumer Yucatan plants; the plants 

 of the Allison Y. Armour expeditions, etc.; a large number of 

 classic series of the plants of North America, South America, 

 the West Indies and Central America. 



Anthropologi/. Collections are intended mainly to illustrate the 

 more primitive or uncivilized phases of the development of the 

 human race. There are two divisions of the subject, and the col- 

 lections illustrating them are separately installed. The first divi- 

 sion consists of apparatus used in studying the greatly varied 

 physical and psychic phenomena. The second comprises ex- 

 hibits of the handiwork of man and of collections of crania, 

 casts and other objects, articles and materials illustrating the 

 physical characteristics of the race. The works of prehistoric 

 peoples are brought together in groups according to locality 

 from which they are derived, people, time, or stage of progress 

 they are thought to represent, or, otherwise, with reference to 

 some other special subject to be illustrated. Those of living or 

 historic peoples are assembled according to the tribe or nation 

 to which they pertain. 



The physical and psychic anthropologic collection consists of 

 various kinds of ai)paratus obtained and set in place by Dr Joseph 

 Jastrow, the Boas collection of skulls, trephined skulls from 

 Peru, Papuan skulls, etc. 



Ethnology. The more notable collections are: Stanley McCor- 

 mick Hopi material; Edward E. Ayer collection of North Ameri- 

 can material; Hassler collection of feather work, and other 



