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region ; from Australia, made by Baron F. von Mueller ; from 

 the United States Forestry Commission of rare North Ameri- 

 can trees ; from North Africa, made by Geo. Curling Joad ; 

 from the North Pacific Survey, by William Canby ; from 

 Alaska, by Thos. Meehan ; from the Yellowstone, made by 

 F. Tweedy ; of Mexican plants distributed by C. G. Pringle, 

 the noted collector, and the veteran botanist, Dr. Palmer ; 

 from Colorado, New Mexico and California, made by A. H. 

 Smith ; from Chili, Bolivia and Brazil, distributed by H. H. 

 Rusby; from Tabasco and Chiapas, in Mexico, by Prof. 

 Rovirosa; from South America, by Thos. Morong; from 

 the West Indies, made by Professor Leopold Krug, of the 

 Royal Botanical Museum, Berlin ; from Guatemala, distri- 

 buted by John Donnell Smith ; from Greenland, made by 

 Wm. E. Meehan; from Greece, Macedonia, Asia Minor, 

 Kurdistan and Mesopotamia, by Bornmiiller and Sintenis ; 

 from the West Indies, distributed by Rothrock ; from Cali- 

 fornia, by Brandegee, are valuable scientifically, because 

 they represent type specimens of the new forms discovered 

 by all of these collectors in different parts of the world. In 

 addition to the phanerogams the Academy's herbarium has 

 been enriched in recent years by the addition of many note- 

 worthy cryptogamic collections, among these may be men- 

 tioned a complete set of Ellis's " Centuries of North Ameri- 

 can Fungi," Drummond's " Mosses of the Rocky Mountains 

 and British America," a set of fungi, from the wife of the 

 late Dr. Geo. Martin, of West Chester ; the lichen herbarium 

 of Dr. J. W. Eckfeldt, the celebrated lichen ologist, and 

 other collections of minor interest and importance. 



With these large collections the herbarium of the 

 Academy of Natural Sciences may be said to be on a par 



