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REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE. LT 
BOTANICAL DIVISION. 
The work of this division has been steadily prosecuted. During the 
winter distribution of specimens were made as follows: To each of the 
following colleges one box of specimens of the woods of the United 
States: State Agricultural College, Lansing, Mich.; University of Minne- 
sota, Minneapolis, Minn.; State Agricultural and Mechanical College, 
New Orleans, La.; Rutgers College, New Jersey; also two boxes of wood 
sections to Massachusetts Agricultural College, Amherst, Mass. 
To each of the following colleges one box of botanical specimens: 
Delaware College, Newark, Del.; Agricultural and Mechanical College, 
Lexington, Ky.; University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis.; Virginia 
Agricultural and Mechanical College, Blacksburg, Va.; Agricultural 
and Mechanical College, Bryan, Tex.; Agricultural and Mechanical Col- 
lege, Columbus, Ohio; Agricultural and Mechanical College, Chapel 
Hill, N. C.; Agricultural and Mechanical College, Columbia, Mo.; Kan- 
sas Agricultural College, Manhattan, Kans.; University of Georgia, 
Athens, Ga. 
Later in the year there have been sent to the Iowa Agricultural Col- 
lege one box of specimens of the woods of the Argentine Republic, and 
one box of botanical specimens; also to Wellesby College, Massachusetts, 
one box of specimens of woods of the Argentine Republic. 
The botanical collections have been increased during the year by the 
receipt of one box of wood specimens from St. Petersburg, Russia; one 
box of botanical specimens collected by the Wheeler expedition and 
donated by the Smithsonian Institution; one package of Siberian and 
Japanese plants from the St. Petersburg Botanic Garden (also through 
the Smithsonian Institution); one box of botanical specimens from the 
Government of Spain; purchase and donation of a large collection of 
European mosses, the collection of the late Prof. Rudolphus Oldberg ; 
and by purchase as follows: one set of Florida plants, from Dr. A. P. 
Garber; a quantity of Arizona plants, from Dr. E. Palmer, and one set 
of the ferns of Trinidad, from A. Fendler. 
During the past summer the cases and herbarium have been trans 
ferred to rooms on the second floor, in connection with the general mu- 
scum. New cases have been added, so that abundant room for the her- 
- barium is now provided for several years to come. Additional interest 
and value have been given to the division by the erection of two large 
cases for the display of wood specimens, fruits, and objects of botanica] 
interest. 
The herbarium is increasing in public imeorent and value, and is now 
more frequently visited and consulted for purposes of instruction by 
teachers, professors in institutions of learning, and by private individ- 
uals interested in botanical pursuits. 
MICROSCOPICAL DIVISION. 
This division is principally engaged in the investigation of plant-dis 
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