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forty feet long and nearly thirty feet wide at the northwestern 
corner of the building, where thirty new herbarium cases have 
been installed to receive it. 
general idea of the arrangement of the herbarium may be 
gained from the accompanying plan. The six central blocks of 
four cases each contain the regular groups of fungi in series, ten 
cases being devoted to moulds, sac-fungi and imperfect forms, 
two to smuts and rusts, and twelve to the higher groups. The 
side cases contain the synoptical collection, duplicates, and mis- 
cellaneous specimens. At one end of the room are desks and 
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other equipment for the use of students, and in the center large 
tables for laying out specimens. At the other end is the office 
of the curator in charge of the fungi. 
The original Ellis collection of 80,000 specimens was pur- 
chased in 1896, and his residual collection of 20,000 specimens 
in 1900. Since that time the Garden has obtained an average of 
over 8,000 specimens a year, making a total of 60,000 acquired 
in the past seven years. 
Mr. Ellis was at work upon his collection for forty years, dur- 
ing which time he not only collected extensively himself, but 
