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cured. These were mostly from the woody plants, and included 
only wood-destroying and parasitic forms. 
Respectfully submitted, 
(Signed) GrorcE M. REEp, 
Resident Investigator. 
Toit AMES BE OURS 
By the will of the late Frank H. Ames, the Garden has come 
into possession of his excellent fungus herbarium, consisting of 
about 517 specimens, mainly of woody fungi, forty-two books 
and eighteen pamphlets on mycological and other botanical sub- 
jects, and his correspondence with American mycologists, includ- 
ing Peck, Lloyd, Kellerman, Atkinson, and others. This be- 
quest is the-second in the Garden’s brief history, and forms a 
valuable and most welcome addition to our collections and library. 
Mr. Ames was born at DeRuyter, N. Y., October 8, 1852. For 
a number of years he taught in district schools, and after graduat- 
ing from the State Normal School at Geneseo, N. Y., in 1888, he 
was principal of schools in Mumford, Livonia, Stillwater, and 
Tottenville. For twenty-four years (1893-1917) he was a 
teacher in P. S. 14, Manhattan. His death occurred in Cam- 
bridge, Mass., on August 1, 1917. Interment was at De Ruyter, 
Nea 
Mr. Ames was a zealous collector of fungi, chiefly of the fleshy 
and woody groups, and made frequent and valued contributions of 
specimens to the fungus herbarium of the Garden. The fol- 
lowing quotations from letters from Mr. Lloyd to Mr. Ames in- 
dicate the high esteem in which his work was held, and also the 
scientific value of the collections bequeathed to the Garden: 
“As I always count on getting nice specimens from you, I was 
anxious to see what you had sent, and stopped my work on the 
foreign plants and opened one of your boxes.” 
“T always like to work with your specimens, for you are such 
a discriminating and good collector that hardly a specimen comes 
to me from you that is not of interest.” 
Mr. Ames’s name is perpetuated in the species Polyporus 

