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is in the herbarium. The Garden also possesses the herbarium of 
Wi. Cooper, one of Dr. Torrey’s associates, collections made by 
C. F. Austin, H. B. Croom, M. C. Leavenworth, R. D. Nevins, 
and other well known botanists of the nineteenth century. 
Important acquisitions to the phanerogamic herbarium were 
made by the purchase of the A. A. Heller herbarium, mostly from 
Western United States, and the Henry Dautun collection from 
New Jersey, France, and Spain. Outstanding among the gifts to 
the collection of higher plants were the specimens from the Whitney 
South Sea Island Expedition (1921-1927), presented to the Bo- 
tanic Garden by the American Museum of Natural History. Ex- 
peditions by staff members of the Garden to Bolivia and Ecuador 
yielded most valuable additions to the herbarium of plants endemic 
to those particular regions. 
In the cryptogamic group of algae, lichens, liverworts, mosses, 
and ferns, are some of the earliest collections which the Garden 
owns. In 1940, the Botanic Garden arranged with the American 
Fern Society to take over and administer its collection of ferns. 
The collection of fungi now totals more than 80,000 specimens. 
In the course of the years, many important exsiccati have been 
added, among them: I. Bartholomew, North American Uredin- 
ales; J. B. Ellis, North American Fungi; D. Griffiths, West 
American Fungi; Seymour & Earle, Economic Ligne. aA anid! 
Sydow, fungi exotici, and Mycotheca Germanica. The most im- 
portant addition was the purchase, in 1922, of the collection of Dr. 
Franz Bubak, for many years Director of the Botanical Garden, 
Labor, Bohemia, which contained more than 33,000 specimens, and 
included about 500 new species of fungi described by Dr. Bubak. 
Small collections of plant specimens for class use have also been 
secured, including flowering plants, ferns, and fungi. A special 
collection includes specimens of. trees, shrubs, and. herbaceous 
plants from the gardens and conservatories, which have been in 
constant use in connection with the establishment and maintenance 
of the living plant collections at the Garden, 
