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Clieilantlies Parishii, a fern which has never been collected but 

 once and of which only three or four specimens are known to 

 exist. 



The market value of this collection may be safely estimated 

 at three hundred and fift}' dollars, while the value of the donor's 

 time, expended in ai ranging and adding to it during the last ten 

 years, is inestimable. His work has been entirely a labor of love, 

 without thought of compensation, and has produced an herbarium 

 superior in its specialty to any other in this country, as many 

 noted botanists who have examined it have testified. 



The collection also includes numerous and valuable autograph 

 letters from the prominent botanists of the country, including Pro- 

 fessor Asa Gray, Professor Daniel C. Eaton, Dr. A. W. Chapman 

 and others, upon matters of especial importance to botanists. 

 Mr. Davenport has printed, at his own expense, a catalogue of the 

 herbarium, which is of great assistance in the examination of 

 specimens. 



The Committee, therefore, in view of the foregoing facts, and 

 believing the herbarium to be of great value to botanists, students, 

 and the public, and to reflect much credit upon the Society which 

 possesses it, respectfully and earnestly requests that the Silver 

 Medal of the Society be conferred upon Mr. George E. Davenport 

 in recognition of the service he has thus rendered. 



For the Committee, 



W. E. ENDICOTT, Chairman. 



LIBRARY ACCESSIONS. 

 Books Purchased. 



Millspaugli, Charles F., M. D. American Medicinal Plants; an illustrated 



and descriptive guide to tlie American Plants used as Homceoputhic 



Remedies. Fascicles 1-5. 4to. 150 colored plates. New York and 



Philadelphia: 1884-1886. 

 Lloyd, J. W. and G. C. Drugs and Medicines of North America. Vol. 1 



and Parts 1 and 2 of Vol. 2. Royal 8vo. 34 plates and 129 wood-cuts. 



Cincinnati : 1884. 

 Oyster, Dr. J. H. Catalogue of Phtenogamous and Vascular Cryptogamous 



Plants of North America (exclusive of Mexico). 8vo. pamphlet. 



Paola, Kansas : 1885. 



