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Dr. James Trudeau presented the entire herbarium of Mr. 

 Tainturier, collected in the vicinity of New Orleans. 



A suite of plants of Texas, collected by Mr. Drummond, was 

 presented by Drs. Torrey and Darlington. 



A suite of plants of Arkansas, collected and presented by Dr. 

 Z. Pitcher, U. S. Army. 



A suite of Indian Grasses, collected by Messrs. Wright and Ar- 

 nott, presented by Dr. Torrey. 



Mr. James Bead presented 400 species, collected by himself 

 in the Islands of St. Croix, St. Thomas, Porto Rico, and Guada- 

 loupe, in the winter of 1837. 



Dr. Pickering presented the herbarium of Dr. H. Little, of 

 Boston, collected by himself in the vicinity of that city, and in 

 New Hampshire. 



Mr* E. Durand selected from his extensive herbarium 925 

 species which were not in the Academy's collection, and presented 

 them. 



Dr. John Styles, formerly of Valparaiso, but now of Cuba, 

 presented 400 species of plants collected by himself in Chile. 



Don Ramon de la Sagra, and M. G. Lob^ presented a series of 

 plants of Cuba. 



Menke Collection. Through Dr. E. F. Rivinus, the extensive 

 herbarium of Dr. F. Menke*, of Pyrmont, Germany, was presented 

 by him to the Academy in the year 1839. It is contained in 37 

 folio volumes, and comprises more than 7,000 species of 1,298 

 genera, which were collected between the years 1810 and 1815, 

 in German localities. Among the distinguished botanists who 

 contributed to the formation of this herbarium, are named Thun- 

 berg, Sprengel, Bernhardi, Professor Treviranus, Professor Mer- 

 tens, Roemer, Goenhat, Lehman, Salzman, Rohde, Wendland, 

 Schroeder, Ehrenberg, Schmidt, &c. As nearly all the species 

 in this herbarium are duplicates of those possessed by the Acade- 

 my, and as very many of them are from cultivated specimens, it 

 is kept distinct. 



In 1842, Mr. P. A Browne presented 300 species of West In- 

 dian plants ; the Rev. J. P. Durbin, 200 Alpine plants, from the 

 Valley of Chamouni ; Mr. R. C. Taylor between 80 and 90 species 

 of West Indian and American plants ; and Mr. J. Frampton Wat- 

 son 64 species from the Andes. 



In 1843, Mr. J. N. Nicollet presented 335 species from the 



