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ment of special students to assist in working up the wealth of 
material accumulated. Since its transference to the custody of 
the University the herbarium has had but two curators, the late 
Charles Wright and Dr. Sereno Watson. 
National Herbarium at Washington. 
GEORGE VASEY. | 
This Herbarium was organized in 1869. It was based upon 
_the Government collections which had for many years been ac- 
cumulating in the Smithsonian Institution, from which they were 
transferred in the original packages to the Department of Agri- 
culture, to be prepared and mounted, so that they might be ac- 
“reaem for investigation. These collections were principally as 
ollows: 
Those of the U. 8. Exploring Expedition under Commodore 
Wilkes from 1838 to 1842. se of the U.S. North Pacific 
Ex. Expedition under Commanders Ringgold and Rogers from 
1853 to 1856. A small lot from Commodore Perry’s Expedition 
to Japan in 1856. A portion of Fendler’s collections on the 
Isthmus of Panamain 1850. A collection of Berlandier’s plants 
of Texas and Mexico, made from 1828 to 1830. Lindheimer’s 
Texas Collection of 1846. The large collections of Mr. Charles 
Wright in Texas and New Mexico from 1849 to 1852. The 
Collections of the U. S. and Mexican Boundary Commission, 
and those of the Surveys for Railway route to the Pacific made 
in 1853 and 1854 by Lieuts. Whipple, Parke, Williamson, and 
Fremont, and Gov. Stevens of Oregon. A collection made by 
Lieut. Ives on the Exploration of the Colorado River in 1857 
and 1858. Collections made in Alaska by Dr. Rothrock, Dr. 
Kellogg and others. 
many from Brazil and Japan. Numerous packages mostly of 
European plants, from the Royal Herbarium at Kew, England. 
tions of the San Domingo Commission in 1871. 
To these have since been added the plants collected under the 
