(120) 
specimens removed. ‘The most important additions were 
the specimens of drug-plants and of food-plants brought 
together by Dr. H. H. Rusby. 
Systematic Museum. The elements of this museum 
were not essentially changed during the year. 
The Synoptic Collection was renovated throughout. 
Deteriorated specimens were removed and new ones added. 
he Local Flora remained as in the preceding year. 
Additional miscellaneous specimens and many paintings of 
fungi have been prepared for installation. 
The Microscope Exhibit was maintained as in the pre- 
vious year, but it was renovated and fresh specimens 
interpolated. 
The Plant Photograph Exhibit was neither changed nor 
augmented. 
Herbaria 
The herbarium equipment was not increased during the 
year. Considerable shifting of specimens was necessitated 
by the uneven increase of the families and the genera in 
the various major groups of plants. 
Current exsiccati representing most of the plant-groups 
were received as heretofore. Miscellaneous specimens from 
many parts of the world were added to the collections. 
Large and important collections of both marine and fresh- 
water algae came from connaent! North America and 
from Porto Rico, Cuba, N dland, and South 
America. The additions of fungi and lichens consisted of 
the Gerard herbarium of lichens, and miscellaneous collec- 
tions from continental North America, South America, 
and the West Indies. The hepatics and mosses came from 
a wide range of territory; the more important collections, 
in addition to the miscellaneous specimens from the her- 
barium of M. A. Howe, coming from various parts of conti- 
nental North America, the West Indies, Colombia, Ecuador, 
Peru, Brazil, and Avsentinas and on. Europe, continental 
Ais, the Piso Islands, and Hawaii. The ferns 
represent a miscellaneous collection from North America 
