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Labeling and other Clerical Work 
During the year 673 show labels were added to the collections. 
All of these represent verification of plants labelled for the first 
time, and there has been a good deal of replacement work. The 
collections are now better labelled than ever before, and con- 
sequently of more use to classes and the public generally. Ac- 
cession numbers 7256-7913 were assigned during the year. Ad- 
ditions to the systematic collections were made as follows: By 
collection 20, by exchange 142, by gift 126, by purchase 261, 
derived from seed, 102; total, 651. 
There have been in addition many other plants added to our 
existing collections to which no numbers were assigned, and which 
therefore do not show in the above tabulation. 
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Phanerogamic Herbarium 
The additions to this collection came largely by purchase, the 
more important under this category being 744 from Michigan, 
805 from China, and 350 from Washington State. Six hundred 
specimens were received in exchange from the U. S. National 
Herbarium, and Dr. J. Arthur Harris, Cold Spring Harbor, 
Long Island, presented 240. Total additions for the year were 
2,747, and 2,041 of these and previous receipts were mounted and 
put in the cases. 
At the time of moving into the building we doubled the capacity 
of our herbarium cases, so that, after spreading out the previously 
badly congested collections, we have, for the first time, adequate 
space for our present collection, and some space in each case has 
been reserved for future growth. The placing in the herbarium 
room of a selected list of books, such as all the Colonial Floras, 
Kew Index, Bentham and Hooker’s Genera Plantarum, Bailey’s 
Cyclopedia, and other reference works, has increased the con- 
venience of the herbarium as a study collection. There is still a 
good deal of work needed to put it in such a condition as to make 
it of largest scientific significance. 
All of the work of accessioning, keeping the records, and cus- 
todianship of the Herbarium has been in charge of the assistant 
