40 STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



assistants and to students. I have no private laboratory in which to 

 carry on investigations. Excepting one week of the last long vacation, 

 I remained here at work or was engaged in making collections and 

 taking photographs for the College. Long hours were occupied in put- 

 ting to rights our large herbarium and in arranging our numerous 

 negatives, slides and photographs and in labeling and otherwise im- 

 proving the botanic garden. 



I now expect to work here during the present long vacation and in 

 making collections and observations for the advancement of the depart- 

 ment. The garden has been much improved. 



I am sorry to tell you that as the students increase in numbers and 

 more people visit the College, depredations of one kind and another 

 have become more frequent. There seems to be a necessity for policing the 

 garden, especially in the evening and on Sundays, when the gardener 

 is absent. 



In looking over the past T cannot help regretting that eleven years of 

 my time here were divided between horticulture and botany, and a still 

 longer time was divided between forestry and botany. 



THE HERBARIUM. 



The additions made during the past year are enumerated below: 



SEED PLANTS^ PERNS AND THEIR ALLIES. 



C. H. Peck, state Botanist of N. Y., Cones of Pjcea rubens, three 



lots 3 



B. L. Robinson, Harvard University, Plantae Excicatae Grayanae 100 



Gerald Cheney, Alabama 11 



B. Barlow, Collection of 1001 in Upper Peninsula 48 



C. J. Davis, University of Michigan, Hybrids Oaks 4 



C. D. McLouth, Muskegon 44 



Almon N. Rood, Phalanx, Ohio 35 



Mrs. R. Mann, Ferns and allies, desiderata 14 



Willard Clute, Binghampton, N. Y 14 



W. A. Cannon, from southeast U. S 221 



S. M. Tracy, Gulf Coast plants 546 



A . A. Eaton, desiderata 38 



Home Collections 537 



1,615 



MOSSES AND LIVERWORTS. 



E. G. Britton, for Columbia University, N. Y. Mosses 50 



W. A. Cannon * 17 



67 



LICHENS. 



W. A. Cannon 6 



Clara E. Cummings 40 



46 



