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received material from all parts of this country and many parts 
of Europe for determination and exchange. More species of 
fungi were described by him than by all other American’ botanists 
together, and the types, or orginal specimens, of these species 
were all preserved in his collection. Among the contributors 
whose names frequently appear, the following are perhaps the 
best known: Messrs. H. W. Ravenel, A. B. Langlois, G. 
L. Smith, A. P. Morgan, B. M. Everhart, A. Commons, J. 
Macoun, J. Dearness, A. C. Waghorne and Charles Wright. 
Since 1900 there has been no very large single collection of 
fungi added to the herbarium, but specimens have been derived 
from many different sources, chiefly through material sent in for 
of the Garden Staff. Certain groups that were poorly repre- 
sented in the Ellis collection, such as the gill-fungi and many of 
the large wood-loving species, have recently been collected in 
great quantities in Maine, New Hampshire, New York, New 
Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina, and Florida; and 
in the Bahamas, Cuba, Porto Rico, Jamaica, Costa Rica, Hon- 
duras, and other parts of tropical America. 
Among those not connected with the Garden who have 
assisted in building up the mycological herbarium in recent years, 
are the following: Messrs. E. W. D. Holway, H. J. Banker, F. 
E. Clements, C. F. Baker, T. D. A. Cockerell, W. Trelease, G. 
F. Atkinson, F. S. Earle, A. D. Selby, L. Abrams, J. J. Davis, 
. M. Tracy, A. A. Heller, F. E. Lloyd, C. F. Millspaugh, D. 
Griffiths, W. A. Kellerman, E. C. Howe, A. Nelson, R. M. 
E. R. Memmimger, . Hanmer, A. O. Garrett, J. Macoun, 
L. Romell, A. J. Hill, W. E. Broadway, N. M. Glatfelter, M. 
E. Peck, W. R. Maxon, D. S. Johnson, A. D. E. Elmer and C. 
H. Demetrio; and Misses A. Eastwood, S. F. Price, V. S 
White, M. L. Overacker and G. S. Burlingham. 
Important European collections have been recently obtained 
