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designate the specimens you will perceive that additions can at any time be made 
[reverse of sheet] without interference with the previous labour. — 
Should you 4 Sigh the plan paper could be selected such size as would cut 
without much w: 
Please aig me a a of your conclusion in the matter. 
Yours respectfully 
E. MICHENER 
N. B.—I can not return the package until I receive the portfolios to place them in, 
—What would you want done with the old books, envelopes, etc.?—a few of them 
contain specimens which ought to be preserved—and it might be worth while to 
retain Sch. own labels along with the specimens —but this would open a wider field 
for labour— 
E. M. 
Evidently, the committee did not agree with Michener that 
the size of the sheets should be reduced, for the mounted portion 
of the Schweinitz herbarium at Philadelphia is on sheets of folio 
size, whereas those in Michener’s own herbarium are quarto. 
Very fortunately, however, his suggestion that the original packets: 
were worth retaining was accepted, as these are now preserved 
in the Academy. 
Michener worked on this herbarium during the winters of 
1855-56 and 1856-57, and in 1857 sent to the Academy a con-. 
siderable collection of fungi, as indicated by the report of ‘‘ Dona- 
tions to Museum”’ in the Proceedings for that year: 
Seven hundred and a cio species fungi (finely mounted specimens), 
Presented by Rev. M. A. Curt Two hundred and one species fungi (finely 
mounted specimens). Presented ee Ezra Michener, who prepared all the specimens. 
The files of the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia 
contain five letters from Michener regarding the rearrangement 
of the Schweinitz herbarium and in the interval after that only 
three brief notes. Dr. Nolan, Secretary of the Academy, states 
that while the files are by no means complete, it is very probable 
that these are all the communications received from Michener, 
as he was characteristically a man of few words. Two letters 
written in 1867 referred to copies of the Proceedings of the Society 
which he had found missing when the volumes were being sent 
to the bindery. The remaining note written on a half sheet of 
letter paper is from its date and nature probably the last com- 
munication of Dr. Michener to the Philadelphia Academy. 
