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The number of specimens received from all sources for the 

 museums and herbarium during the year, in addition to the 

 fossil plants aggregates 61,614 > tne number permanently in- 

 corporated into the several collections is over 79,000 ; thus 

 nearly 18,000 specimens previously received have been 

 mounted ; these then represent the gain made in the sorting 

 and arrangement of specimens carried over from last year in 

 the store rooms. A vast number still remain unstudied, but 

 the gain is encouraging, and work is now so organized that 

 we expect to be able to very materially reduce the unsorted 

 material during 1902. Ten museum aids have assisted the 

 curators in the work, who have also been aided by students 

 and other investigators. 



Through an agreement with the Torrey Botanical Club, 

 the herbarium accumulated by that society was presented to 

 the Garden in the spring. It consists wholly of specimens 

 of plants growing naturally within one hundred miles of New 

 York City, and is a valuable collection on which to build a 

 complete illustration of the local flora. It serves a very use- 

 ful purpose by saving the main herbarium from the use of 

 local students, and answers their inquiries more rapidly and 

 in many cases more satisfactorily than by reference to the 

 general herbarium. 



Contributions of money for the purchase of collections and 

 credited to museum and herbarium fund have been made 

 as follows : 



Andrew Carnegie $ 5 00,00 



Samuel Sloan 100.00 



Samuel D. Babcock 250.00 



G. S. Bowdoin 200.00 



Addison Brown 100.00 



D. O. Mills 200.00 



Edward D.Adams 100.00 



Geo. B. Hopkins 5°-°° 



Francis Lynde Stetson 50.00 



Mrs. Esther Herrman 100.00 



Dr. Henry F. Walker 5 - 00 



H. C. von Post 100.00 



$1,800.00 



