152 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [FEBRUARY 
largely of Vermont plants, collected by Dr. Ferdinand Blanchard, received 
in the early part of the year, in December about 8300 specimens were pur- 
chased from the estate of the late Dr. A. W. Chapman, of Apalachicola, 
Florida, of which some 3200 specimens had constituted his personal refer- 
ence collection for many years. About these Dr. Chapman wrote: 
There are about fifty volumes of them, ranging in thickness from one to six inches. 
When I was writing the first edition of my Flora, these sheets were spread out before 
me and the plants now remaining on them are to be considered typical ; but since 
then many have been detached, some to make up the herbarium that I sold to Vander- 
bilt, and some that I sent to you and to Columbia College. Scattered through the 
volumes are my notes, descriptions, etchings, and guesses. 
Neither of these collections has yet been inserted in the herbarium of the 
garden. The material actually incorporated in the herbarium during the 
year amounts to 32,890 sheets. ... . The present number of specimens in 
the herbarium is 340,350. . . . . The additions to the library for 1899 include 
642 books and 172 pamphlets. . .. . The manuscript index has been increased 
by the incorporation of 9072 newcards..... As now constituted the library 
contains 14,287 books and 19,175 pamphlets (total 33,462) and 253,757 index 
SAVOR ergs cts g It is hoped that the publication of a general catalogue of the 
library may be effected in the near future... . . There are now received at 
the garden library 978 serial publications, of which gt are bought and 887, 
issued by 688 institutions, are presented. 
Peeae met, Bk 
