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home brief stops were made at Carrizoza, Capitan, Lincoln and 
Roswell in New Mexico and at Cobden, Illinois, some plants 
being secured from each of these localities. 
F. S. Earve. 
THE PLANT PICTURE COLLECTION. 
For many years the late Mr. A. P. Lyon was engaged in 
bringing together in’ a special series and as an adjunct to his 
library, plates or pictures of plants. This collection, at the time 
r. Lyon's death, contained fully 260,000 prints, many of 
which were accompanied by the letter-press. 
The Board of Managers of the Garden at a recent meeting, 
authorized the purchase of this collection, and the transfer of the 
boxes containing the entire series of plates from Mr. Lyon’s late 
residence to the Museum Building at the Garden has been 
accomplished. 
The collection is made up of both black and white, and 
colored plates from many of the illustrated botanical works of 
the United States, Great Britain and Continental Europe. Such 
works as the Botanical Magazine, the Flower Garden, Flowers 
and Ferns of the United States, the Botanical Garden, Icones 
Filicum, Botanical Cabinet, Sertum Botanicum, Botanical Regis- 
ter, Histoire des Plantes and various government reports have 
been drawn upon to build it up. 
As a matter of course a series brought together in this way is 
exceedingly heterogeneous, representing as it does the greatest 
variety of methods of reproduction and skill in delineation, vary- 
ing from those of little value to those of relatively great value, 
especially to certain departments of this institution. A superior 
class of plates predominates, however, and the Garden has been 
fortunate in being able to add this plant picture collection in its 
entirety to its exhibition resources. 
At present the collection is arranged on the system of classi- 
fication adopted by Bentham and Hooker in their Genera Plan- 
tarum, and thus any plate is readibly accessible. However we 
shall change its arrangement to the classification adopted by 
