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Collections. —The herbarium of the university has been gath- 
ered by gifts and purchases around the nucleus of about a 
thousand species contributed by the State Geological Survey. The 
number of sheets now amounts to over 20,000 and there is suf- 
ficient unmounted material, which is being cared for as rapidly 
as the facilities will permit, to bring the number up to nearly 
30,000. About two-thirds of these are given up to North Ameri- 
can species. The remaining third is divided among the species 
of South America, Asia, Africa, Europe, and Oceanica. 
The cryptogamic side of the herbarium has of late been 
especially developed, and already contains about 4000 speci- 
mens of ferns, mosses, hepatics, marine alge, fungi, etc. The 
valuable collections of alge, fungi, and lichens of Professor 
Setchell are deposited with the Botanical Department, and are 
accessible to advanced students. 
Publication—Short papers may be published in Erythea, a 
monthly journal edited by Mr. Jepson. 
Longer papers and monographs requiring expensive plates 
may be published in the botanical volumes of Proc. Cal. Acad. 
Scet., of which Professor Setchell is one of the editors. 
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Staff. —John M. Coulter, Ph.D., Head Professor; Edwin oO. 
Jordan, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Bacteriology; Bradley M. 
Davis, Ph.D., Instructor; Charles J. Chamberlain, A.M.., Assist- 
ant; four Fellows who are members of the instruction force. 
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