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Accessions by purchase totaled 432 volumes and consisted for 
the most part of books of recent publication and files of botanical 
serials and periodicals. A number of old botanical works, pur- 
chased from the income of special funds, were added to the Pre- 
Linnean collection. Among them are included good copies of a 
dozen works dating from the sixteenth century, and one title, the 
“ Hortuli commentarium ” of Columella, printed at Rome in 1485, 
— 
was added to the collection of incunabula. 
PiSisOHsS OME IMPORTANT GCE SSl@Ns 
Books 
ATpinus, Prosper. De plantis Aegypti liber... Venetiis, F. de Franciscis, 
: Gait edition, 
see Lucius Madaurensis. Opera, quae quidem extant, omnia... 
, Henricus Petri, 1560. 5 vols 
asinine es Villa Nova. Dyser tractat helt in von Beraytung der Wein, zu 
sundheit Tae Resta: der Menschen... Augspurg, Hainrich 
Ascherson, Paul and Graebner, Paul. Synopsis der Mitteleuropaischen 
Flora. V. 1-6, pts. of V. 7 and 12, 1896-1931. (In progress.) 
Bauhin, Caspar. Theatri botanici sive historiae tare ex veteru 
recentiorum page propriaq. observatione... e, J. Konig, as 
(First editior 
Boccone, Paulo. nee di di experienze variato ... Venice, 
aptista Zuccato, 1697, paoee with his Museo di Biante: rare della 
Sicilia, Malta, Corsica, Italia, Piemonte, e Germania. Venice, 1697.) 
Boerhaave, Hermann. Index alter plantarum quae in horto academico 
Lugduno-Batavo aluntur. 2 pts. in 1 vol. Lugduni Batavorum, 1720. 
(First edition. Presentation copy from author to Dr. Isaac Rand, 
with inscription on title page 
Brefeld, Oscar. Untersuchungen aus dem Gesammtgebiete der Mykologie. 
V 5, 187 
-15, -1912. 
Colonna, Fabio. Minus cognitarum rariorumque nostro coello orientium 
stirpium EK@PASIC ... Rome, Jacobo Mascardi, 1616. 
ane: L. J. M. [Hortuli Conia bariten [Rome, Bart. Guldinbeck, 
485] (First separate edition. ) 
ae Erasmus. Ph Dee or the philosophy of agriculture and garden- 
ing. Dublin, P. nee 1800. 
Dodoens, Rembert. New eal or historie of plant out of French 
to English by Henrie Lyte, Esquier. eae ies Cncine 1595. 
(Third edition in [English.) 
Dorstenius, Theodericus. Botanicon ... Francoforti, Egenolphus, 1540. 
First edition.) 
