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DEPARTMENTAL REPORTS 



Department of Botany 



By Alice Eastwood, Curator 



The new Herbarium now contains 32,281 mounted sheets, representing 

 10,241 species and 3223 genera of Phanerogams and the higher Cryptogams. 

 Besides these there are also the types saved from the fire and the bundles 

 of lupines and gilias which were loaned at the time and have since been 

 returned, but which are not yet incorporated in the herbarium on account 

 of lack of room. There are also the collections of mosses given by Dr. C. 

 Hart Merriam numbering 486 specimens, and 81 specimens sent in exchange 

 from the National Museum. A collection of Hawaiian ferns and a collec- 

 tion of 100 plants from the Alps donated by Mrs. Zelia Nuttall after the fire 

 have been this year mounted and put in place and almost all have added 

 species to the collection that were very desirable. The California Botanical 

 Club has purchased two collections at a total expense of sixty dollars. 



Duplicates have been sent to the following herbariums : 



Stanford University 230 



Gray Herbarium of Harvard University 353 



The Arnold Arboretum 41 1 



The U. S. National Herbarium 765 



Other sets of duplicates are ready for distribution but have not yet been 

 sent and there remains still a large collection of duplicates made chiefly by 

 the curator to be distributed into sets when time can be taken from more 

 pressing duties. 



After ten years' delay, the collection of plants from the Galapagos Islands 

 can now be labelled. The collector has at last sent the data necessary to 

 enable the field numbers to be correlated with the published numbers. It 

 is an immense job which would be impossible without the classifying into 

 families, genera and species already done by the curator. Thousands of 

 labels will have to be written, as there are many duplicates. Help will be 

 absolutely necessary for that labor and it should be paid for by the 

 Academy, for it is too laborious and uninteresting for members of the 

 Botanical Club. It is hoped that the coming year will see this collection 

 incorporated into the herbarium and the duplicates distributed to other 

 herbariums so that exchanges can be secured. 



Without the help of some members of the Botanical Club, the herbarium 

 could not be in its present fine condition. Mrs. Marian L. Campbell has 

 mounted 6,854 specimens, Mrs. G. Earle Kelly 300, while Mrs. C. L. Pitcher, 

 Mrs. Ernest Meiere, Miss Kate L. Stoney and Miss Lena Gibbs have helped 

 in other ways. With an allowance of one hundred dollars for help, the 

 mounting alone would have exceeded the appropriation by more than fifty 

 dollars if the lowest price for such work should have been paid. I have 

 had the paid help of two school girls who could come on Saturdays and 

 after school and they have helped me in writing labels and making an in- 

 ventory of the herbarium. 



