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of setting in order the herbaria, which he was then disposed to begin 
and which is now well advanced. 
A hall, built in 1842 as a’greenhouse, was arranged in 1892 to 
contain the general herbarium, consisting of 396 packets disposed 
horizontally in appropriate compartments of two great cases, with about 
44,900 species represented by 60,000 specimens ; the Dalmatian herba- 
rium, composed of 37 packets with 2500 species and 10,000 specimens ; 
and the cryptogamic herbarium, composed of commercial collections 
and those presented to the University. 
The phanerogamic herbarium, especially from the Venetian prov- 
incts (65 packets, 3500 species, 10,000 specimens) is Saccardo’s own 
and is placed in a great hall which was adapted in 1880 as a laboratory 
and contains also collections and materials necessary for scientific 
mstruction. The students do their laboratory work there, under the 
attendant’s guidance. 
The mycologic herbarium, which is also the property of the director, 
deserves Particular mention. It is in the director’s room, in 66 cases 
bX 36X 23%), and represents more than 30,000 specimens, many 
of which come from mycologists, some very rare. Saccardo’s herba- 
“um and mycologic library (300 volumes and 2300 pamphlets) are the 
portant scientific material with which that clever mycologist wrote 
the classic Sylloge Fungorum. In the director’s room near the library 
hg archives of the garden where there are the interesting autographs 
oe Prospero Alpino, Cesalpino, and Pontedera. 
ba *ssor Saccardo has also increased the collection of portraits of 
De Vast ollection initiated by his predecessor, Professor Robert 
Slani. It is really well furnished, especially through gifts made 
4 agg oh of Palermo, the son of the late Bee eee 
Seal of ains about 600 portraits, among whic 
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Portraits of seventeen professors of botany, in oil ee 
Three weekly lessons on general botany are given in 
a Week ‘at professor ; two free professors give free leseons 
) esp ecially to naturalists and chemists ; Dr. Adrian Fiori, 
‘to the chair, delivers a course on cryptogams and plant pathol- 
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