272 THE BOTANISTS OP PHILADELPHIA. 



Besides the collection of Fungi, there is a small col- 

 lection of Lichens, including a complete set of Lojka's 

 Lichenotheca Universalis (250 species) and about 300 species 

 of American lichens, put up in six bound volumes, uniform 

 with the rest. There are also 300 numbers of Rehm's 

 Cladonise, and 300 numbers of Macoun's Canadian Mosses, 

 the latter arranged in three bound volumes.* 



This extensive mycological herbarium has been pur- 

 chased t (1896) by the Board of Managers of the New York 

 Botanical Garden, and will be deposited in the fire-proof 

 museum building of the garden, which is about completed 

 in Bronx Park. The purchase also includes a consider- 

 able portion of Mr. Ellis' library, and the collection 

 wdll be taken to New York and placed in a fire-proof storage 

 warehouse until it is finally placed in the garden. 



ALBERT COMMONS. 



Albert Commons, the son of John and Ann (Phipps) 

 Commons, was born in the village of Doe Run, West Marl- 

 borough Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, January 

 23, 1829, the fifth on his father's side, from Elizabeth Max- 

 well (a niece of Daniel Defoe) of London, England, who 

 came over in 1725 and was married to Thomas Job, of 

 Nottingham, Maryland. On his mother's side he is seventh 

 in descent from Joseph Phipps, w^ho came over with Penn's 

 Colonists in 1682, and who was elected a representative 

 from Chester County to the first Assembly that met at 

 Philadelphia in 1683. 



Owing to ill-health and a delicate constitution, the only 

 education Albert Commons received was that obtained at the 



♦Description by Mr. Ellis in pamphlet form, issued Octoberl5, 1892. 

 t See Garden and Forest, IX : 110, March 11, 1896. 



