674 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES [Proc. 4th Ser. 



DEPARTMENT REPORTS 



The various curators and their assistants have continued 

 active in their respective departments. The increases in the 

 collections have been unusually large and important, as will 

 appear from the department reports which follow : 



Department of Botany 

 Inventory of the Herbarium 



SPECIES SPECIMENS 



General collection in cases 22,788 107,026 



Mosses 1,511 3,826 



Hepatics 244 537 



Lichens 849 1,541 



Algae (Prager Herbarium) 614 



Fungi " 3,656 



Ferns " 985 



Cereals Hohenacker Collection 172 



Mounted specimens (Kleeberger Herbarium) 3,293 



Unmounted specimens " 1,319 



Unmounted Texas specimens (Ferris Collection) 1,153 



miscellaneous 959 



" from Eric Walther 176 



from Antone Blazic 327 



Number of species and specimens 24,392 125,584 



Duplicates Distributed 



Twenty-six specimens of ferns and 278 general to the National Herbarium; 

 230 general to the Gray Herbarium; 180 woody plants to the Arnold 

 Arboretum; 726 general to Ira D. Clokey, Denver, Colorado Museum; 244 

 general to Philip A. Munz, Pomona College, Claremont, California. 



Besides these duplicates there are thousands of other duplicates on hand 

 to be distributed in the future and which are not even counted. 



It is ten years since the reestablishment of the Botanical Department and 

 this represents the growth from the nucleus that was saved from the fire 

 to the present. The most important addition was that of the Prager Herb- 

 arium which was secured in 1921 through the generous contributions of 

 William H. Crocker, William F. Herrin, William M. Fitzhugh, William C. 

 Van Antwerp, J. D. Grant, A. F. Morrison and John C. Augsbury. In 1922 

 another valuable collection was added when Mr. George R. Kleeberger 

 donated his herbarium. This is especially valuable to us since it contains a 

 set of specimens collected by Dr. A. Kellogg and W. G. W. Harford in 

 1868-69, with type duplicates and authenticated specimens of a numbered set. 

 Besides the donor's own rich collections, chiefly in Connecticut and Wiscon- 

 sin, there is a very valuable collection of mosses and hepatics, a numbered set 



