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lection. This shows the need of a permanent herbarium for 

 reference. 



Miss Carrie P. Webber, of Bedford, who had exliibited here 

 previously, sent one hundred additional flowering plants and fif- 

 teen ferns, the mounting and naming being well done. 



Five girls and one boy from Roxl)ury, Lulie D. Ellis, Mabel M. 

 Wood, Ada C. Wood, Isabelle F. Wiggin, Genevieve A. Goudy, 

 and John P. Goudy, exhibited excellent mounts of ferns. 



Gordon Weinz, nine years old, who took a prize for fifty flower- 

 ing plants in 1895, sent in twenty-five additional flowering plants 

 this year. 



There was only one collection of sprays of leaves, which num- 

 bered thirty-nine sheets. Like the other herbariums, this one, 

 sent by Katheriue A. Dvvyer, of Roxbury, showed great care in 

 its preparation. 



Mention should be made of Phillips Barry's gift of thirty-six 

 sheets of botanical specimens to the George Putnam School, mak- 

 ing in all one hundred and twenty-seven sheets that he has given 

 to the school. These with the eighty-four sheets of leaf-sprays 

 presented by Arthur C. Faxon make a working herbarium of 

 over two hundred specimens. 



The attendance was eminently satisfactory, the estimate being 

 about one thousand persons during the two days of the Exhibition. 

 Parents, teachers, and children asked a great many questions, 

 and they will be heard from next year. 



The thought seemed to prevail that the exhibition was the work 

 of schools and not of individual pupils. Teachers asked, " Now, 

 to what grade does this pupil belong?" Parents seemed to think 

 their children could take no part in the work unless they came in 

 with a school. It is hoped that parents and teachers will induce 

 individual children to engage in preparing herbariums. It is only 

 in getting together a school herbarium that any large number of 

 children may be expected to continue their efforts. 



The prize of fifty ferns offered by Mr. George E. Davenport 

 for tlie best collection of native ferns sent to the exhibition 

 attracted the attention which it deserved. There were no entries 

 for this prize, owing to a mistaken idea that ferns once exhibited 

 here could not be entered again for this special prize ; therefore 

 the i)arts of fern collections that have been exhibited here annu- 

 ally were left at home. Next j'ear Mr. Davenport will offer two 



