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of which he purchased from Coe F. Austin who was an authority on those 

 families and who made one of the most complete collections ever made in the 

 Appalachian mountains. 



Our collection of mosses and hepatics is now arranged for convenient 

 reference and with the collections in the Kleeberger Herbarium, the cosmo- 

 politan collection of the Prager Herbarium, the valuable donations from the 

 New York Botanical Garden Herbarium, and the collection of Dr. C. Hart 

 Merriam, we have an excellent collection and it will be one of my aims to 

 increase it by interesting everyone in collecting mosses and hepatics. The 

 collection of Californian hepatics is being constantly increased through the 

 enthusiastic efforts of Mrs. E. C. Sutliffe and Mrs. Marion L. Campbell. 

 They have added 10 species and one genus to the known species of the state, 

 according to the determination of Dr. Alexander W. Evans of Yale Uni- 

 versity, the authority on this family. 



Our collection of lichens has also been put in order and contains a set of 

 the Hasse collection of California lichens, a small Californian collection 

 donated by the collector, Albert W. C. T. Herre, a collection of 21 species 

 and 51 specimens donated by the collector, J. August Kusche, and named by 

 well-known authorities; and the specimens in the Prager Herbarium. 



Our collection of Fungi is not yet arranged but contains the Harkness types 

 which were saved from the fire of 1906, some from the National Herbarium, 

 my own collections, and the large collection in the Prager Herbarium. 



Eric Walther has been of the greatest assistance in adding to the collec- 

 tion of exotics cultivated in California and in keeping the exhibition of native 

 and exotic flowers on exhibition at the entrance of the museum supplied with 

 specimens. He has now labelled every species in the Golden Gate Park and 

 has made a list on which the location of the labelled specimens is indicated 

 on a map of the park. It is very desirable that this should be published in 

 the near future. The work has been a labor of love by this capable and 

 enthusiastic young gardener. Our collection of the exotics cultivated in 

 California is now unsurpassed. Antone Blazic, another young and enthu- 

 siastic gardener, has been spending the past year, during the winter in South- 

 ern Florida and during the spring, summer and fall at the Arnold Arbore- 

 tum near Boston, Mass. He collected assiduously for our herbarium and added 

 210 specimens from Florida and more than 900 from the Arnold Arboretum, 

 adding many species and even genera to our collection. This, too, was a 

 labor of love. Miss Anna Head collected over 800 specimens in the Feather 

 River region and gave them to our herbarium. We have received in exchange 

 827 specimens from the New York Botanical Garden Herbarium, 696 speci- 

 mens from the National Herbarium and 276 Colorado specimens from 

 Ira D. Clokey of Denver. There have been many smaller donations, gen- 

 erally sent for identification and the names of the donors will appear in the 

 general list There are more than 40 donors. 



A fine collection of Texas plants made by Mrs. R. S. Ferris of Stanford 

 University, consisting of over a thousand specimens, was purchased from the 

 collector by the Academy. The Botanical Club donated 120 colored photo- 

 graphs of California native flowers purchased from the artist, Antone J. 



