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state. Until such collection can be otherwise provided for, the Academy 

 will designate certain public or private collections where accumulated 

 material may be deposited temporarily. Material sent to the directors 

 will be thus held for the future disposition of the Academy. 



It is earnestly requested that all persons interested in any department 

 of biological work will place themselves in relation with the directors of 

 the survey at once, in order that their work may be made to contribute 

 the most effectively to the public good, and in order that the directors 

 may know on whom they may depend for gaining information from vari- 

 ous portions of the state. All contributions from persons interested will 

 be properly credited in the reports of the survey. Correspondence is so- 

 licited with the director of tlie particular branch in which any one is 

 interested, and such directions in regard to collecting and sending ma- 

 terial will be given on application. By the assistance of the Smithsonian 

 Institution, the directors are able to send printed directions for collecting 

 to such as apply for them. (In ordering these it will be necessary to spec- 

 ify in what particular branch information is desired.) 



LuciEX M. Underwood, Greencastle, Ind., 



Division of Botany. 



Carl H. Eigexmanx, Bloomington, Ind., 



Division of Zoology. 



Verxox F. Marsters, Bloomington, Ind., 



Division of Pakeontology. 

 1 July 1893. Diyiedors of the Biological Survey of Indiana. 



In addition to the above the following was sent out by the Botanical 

 Division : 



special axnouxcemext of the division of botany. 



It is the purpose of this Division during the present year to make such 

 additions and corrections to the published '" Catalogue of the Plants of 

 Indiana" as are possible, and to secure definite information regarding the 

 distribution of such rare forms as are there published. Specimens illus- 

 trating the distribution or occurrence of any plant within the limits of 

 the state must be deposited with the survey before any notice of their be- 

 longing to the state flora can be published. This will insure the ability 

 to verify in future any fact published by the survey. In sending such 

 material it is desirable that notes on the station, habitat, range and abun- 

 dance of the plant be noted, together with any other information that 

 will be of value. 



In addition to the flowering plants and ferns covered in the above, it is 

 the intention of the Division to commence the stmly of the distribution 

 of the lower cryptogams, concerning which almost nothing has been pub- 

 lished from Indiana. While collections will be made of all forms, special 

 . attention will be given at present to the study of (1) Mosses, (2) Hepaticaj, 

 and (3) Parasitic Fungi. Specimens are earnestly desired of all species. 



