556 SHEAR AND STEVENS: EzrRA MICHENER 
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THE MICHENER HERBARIUM 
Dr. Michener’s zoological collections, as stated in a brief 
supplementary note published with his autobiography, which 
were given to Swarthmore College in 1869, were there lost in the 
fire which occurred a few years later. Very fortunately, however, 
his herbarium as well as a collection of shells remained in the 
possession of his children. The preservation of the herbarium 
seems to have been largely due to the interest of his son, Ellwood 
Michener, who apparently inherited his father’s taste for botanical 
studies and accumulated an herbarium of flowering plants which 
the writers have examined. 
Some years before his death, Ellwood Michener presented the 
collections of plants and shells to the Bayard Taylor Memorial 
Library, of Kennett Square, where they remained until 1917- 
The trustees of the library, however, realizing that the herbarium 
would be more accessible to scientific investigators as well as more 
carefully preserved in the Department of Agriculture, sold the 
collections of fungi to the mycological collections of the Bureau 
of Plant Industry. 
In addition to portions of many of Schweinitz’s specimens, as de- 
scribed in an earlier paper (11, pp. 7-11), the Michener herbarium 
contains numerous specimens from the collections of fungi de- 
scribed by Berkeley and Curtis (1) as well as fungi identified by 
Michener himself. With the exactness characteristic of all his 
work Michener indicated on the labels the source of the specimen. 
and by whom it was identified. This collection of fungi which 
has now been made available for study will prove of great value 
to American mycologists. The herbarium also contains an excel- 
