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fungi, published exsiccati; (4) and duplicate specimens not mounted but 

 classified and arranged for study. 



The general collection includes specimens arranged as follows: 



Phrenogams (besides grasses) mounted •>- 6,974 



" " " not mounted .- 1,343 



Grasses mounted - 2,748 



Cryptogams mounted - 738 



" not mounted - - 568 



Total in general collection — 12.371 



The nucleus of the general collection was formed some years ago by the 

 donation to the college of the Cooley collection by the heirs of the late Dr. 

 D. Cooly of Washington, Macomb county, Mich. In 1884 about four thou- 

 sand European specimens, obtained from the Kew Gardens, England, were 

 added. Specimens collected from various sources and especially those from 

 different parts of Michigan hare been constantly increasing the members. 

 Purchases have been made from the collections of Howell on the Pacific coast, 

 Anderson in the Kocky mountains, Palmer in Mexico and Central America, 

 aDd Pringle in the eastern United States and Mexico. About three hundred 

 specimens have been obtained from 0. A. Farwell of Keweenaw county, 

 Mich., in return for identifying specimens for him. About four hundred 

 specimens collected by the botanical expedition across the State in June of 

 1888 were added to trie general collection. Numerous specimens of grasses 

 have been obtained from the department of Agriculture at Washington. 



Dr. Beal's private collection was added to the general college collection 

 in the spring of 1889. This can be best described in his own words as given 

 in his statement to the Board of Agriculture. 



"When I came to this college, I brought with me a collection of herbarium 

 specimens of about 2,000 species of plants, most of which are still unmounted, 

 and not in condition to be easily studied. The collection consists of plants 

 collected by myself in Maine, Massachusetts, Cayuga county, New York, 

 Lenawee county Michigan, and Chicago and vicinity, Illinois; also of plants 

 given me by Dr. Asa Gray, collected in the Rocky mountains, Buffalo, New 

 York, also European plants collected by E. Cosson of France. 



They are mainly flowering plants, ferns and their allies with some algas 

 and fungi. They are nearly all accurately labeled by experts or my own 

 labels were approved by Dr. Gray. There are many cultivated plants; a col- 

 lection of willows named by Anderson, a high authority; a fine lot of sedges, 

 named by Boot, Gary and Dewey. 



A number of these specimens are not in the College herbarium, and nearly 

 all are from different localities than those in the college collection. At a 

 low estimate these are worth on the market eight cents each, making a total 

 of $160. This collection I will give to the State Board of Agriculture, pro- 

 vided they will allow me from time to time to have them properly mounted 

 and placed in the College herbarium." 



Nearly half of this valuable addition has already been mounted and placed 

 in the herbarium. 



It will be noticed by the figures given above that especial attention has 

 been given to grasses. The collection in this order is probably not excelled 

 •by more than four others on this continent. 



