THE LLOYD LIBRARY AND MUSEUM. 



This institution, while nominally an incorporated organization, is 

 in reality dependent upon the support of two brothers, C. G. and J. U. 

 Lloyd, who provide the funds for its maintenance, each for his own 

 department; the former Botany and especially Mycology, the latter 

 Materia Medica and Pharmacy. The institution is located at No. 224 

 West Court St., Cincinnati, Ohio, and is a four story building erected 

 by Mr. C. G. Lloyd for this purpose in 1902. 



THE LIBRARY. 



This is in charge of Captain William Holden, 

 Librarian . It is devoted exclusively to the afore- 

 mentioned subjects, and although of compara- 

 tively recent growth, it compares favorably, in 

 number of volumes at least, with such old estab- 

 lished libraries as are to be found at Kew. In 

 monetary value, or in practical working value to 

 the systematic botanist, the Lloyd Library does 

 not compare with Kew, for the latter is a selected 

 library of years of growth, devoted specially to 

 the wants of the systematic botanist. The Lloyd 

 Library aims eventually to embrace all books re- 

 lating to botany, pharmacy ,materiamedica and 

 allied sciences. With this object such subjects 

 as physiological botany, elementary text books, 

 technical botany, pharmacopoeis, etc., which 

 would not be considered as in the scope of Kew 

 are systematically collected in the Lloyd Library. 



THE HERBARIUM. 



This consists of about thirty thousand speci- 

 mens (estimated) which were mostly obtained 

 through exchange by C. G. Lloyd during the ear- 

 lier years of his life. When Mr. Lloyd became 

 interested in Mycology, some ten years ago, this 

 feature was practically abandoned. Prof. W. H. 

 Aiken has recently taken charge of this depart- 

 ment and it is expected that from this time on 

 the herbarium will have renewed life and 

 activity. 



THE MUSEUM. 



One floor of the building is devoted to a museum of fungi and there have ac- 

 cumulated many thousand specimens. During recent years Mr. C. G.Lloyd has 

 devoted himself exclusively to the study of Gastromycetes, popularly known as the 

 puff ball family. With the cooperation of a large number of correspondents from 

 every country in the world, more specimens of these plants have found their way 

 to this museum than can be found in all other museums in the world combined. 

 Each specimen is named, and labeled with the name of the collector and locality, 

 and is preserved in the museum, no matter how well the same species may be rep- 

 resented. Some common species, such as Lycoperdon gemmatum, are represented 

 by over three hundred different collections. 



ITS DESTINY. 



This institution will never be sold or broken up. When the life works of its 

 builders are finished, funds will be provided for its continuance under the care of 

 some institution or university, best calculated to serve science. The entire collection 

 of books and specimens is pledged by its founders to be donated intact to Science. 



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