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and the North Pacific Expeditions, with additions chiefly from 
foreign sources. 
e mycological collection contains Ravenel’s Fungi Ameri- 
cani exsiccata, Ravenel’s Fungi Caroliniani, Ravenel’s Texas 
Collection, Ellis’ North American Fungi, a large collection by 
the late G. W. Clinton of Buffalo, New York, a small collection 
of New England Fungi by Dr. B. D. Halsted, communicated by 
Prof. C. V. Riley. Recent additions are from M. E. Jones, 60 
species ; from E. W. D. Holoway, Iowa, 125 species ; from Prof. 
W. A. Kellerman, 350 species, chiefly from Kansas and Ohio ; 
and from T. J. Burrill, 11 species, the types of his new species 
of Uredinew, and many interesting and valuable specimens from 
Rey. A. B. Langlois of Louisiana. 
There are 150 mounted sheets of Puccinia, representing nearly 
as many species, 50 sheets of Hypoxylon, 75 of Cercospora, 35 0 
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Dr. C. C. Parry, who gave unremitting attention to the mounting 
of the specimens and to their arrangement in the cases. Since 
April, 1872, it has been in the charge of Dr. Geo. Vasey, and 
has grown to large proportions. nie 
Tt is located on the second floor of the Agricultural building, 
occupying four rooms, the largest two being devoted to the cases 
for the mounted plants. One room is occupied by Prof. F. L 
Scribner, the assistant botanist, and devoted to the mycological 
collections and mycological investigations. The fourth room Is 
or preparing specimens, and for sorting and distributing dupli- 
cates, ete 
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well lighted and comfortable. The cases occupy more than eighty 
feet in length, with a height of nine feet, and are divided for the 
reception of specimens into spaces or shelves, thirteen inches 
Wide, eighteen inches deep and six inches high. There are more 
than 1,300 shelves or spaces. Each shelf or space 1s furnished 
With a pasteboard cover to which is hinged a flap five inches high, 
which drops in front of the specimens, excluding them from light 
and dust, and also furnishing a place for appropriate labels of the 
natural orders and the genus or genera which are contained in 
that space. 
