394 THE BOTANISTS OF PHILADELPHIA. 



Treasurer of the newly organized Botanical Society of Penn- 

 sylvania, to which he has made several interesting com- 

 munications. 



Besides these duties, Dr. Harshberger has had time to 

 write articles for the botanical and educational press, a list 

 of which papers is given below. His private herbarium, 

 mounted and classified, consists of some 1500 sheets, repre- 

 senting so many species, and his botanical library some 

 300 volumes, very rich in the scientific bulletins and reports 

 issued by the United States Department of Agriculture, as 

 also in the more recent German works and translations. 



He has done considerable collecting in the neighbor- 

 hood of Philadelphia, in Pennsylvania, Delaware, ]\Iary- 

 land, Virginia, West Virginia, and is conversant with the 

 flora of the pine barrens and cedar swamps of New Jersey. 

 In the summer of 1892 he visited Europe, and while 

 abroad spent some time at Kew, and the Jardin des Plantes, 

 visiting also Rothamsted, the celebrated experimental farm. 



During the latter part of the summer of 1896, having 

 completed the revision of the botanical words for the 

 English dictionary. Dr. Harshberger took a trip to Mexico, 

 where he botanized extensively. The flora of the Valley 

 of Mexico w^as especially studied, the results of which 

 study are given in several pu-olications, noticed at the 

 end of this sketch. During his sojourn in Mexico, side 

 trips were taken to the tropical forests at Cordoba, Orizaba 

 and the palm forests and tropical forests on the Tampico 

 Branch of the Mexican Central Railroad, as also to Guada- 

 lajara, where extensive collections of living, dried and 

 alcoholic plants v\^ere made. On the way to and from 

 Mexico, opportunity was afforded him to study the flora of 



