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lection made by Dr. Chapman in the southern Atlantic States, 
upon which his “ cua of the Southern States” is based. The 
deposit of the Columbia herbarium at the Garden thus brings. 
all of the botanical pa in which Mr. Crooke has been in- 
terested together in one building, and emphasizes the fact that he 
has been one of the most liberal scientific benefactors of botany 
in New York. His gifts of geological, conchological, and other 
zoological specimens to the Museum of Natural History have also 
greatly enriched the collections of that institution. 
Mr. B. G. Amend has recently presented a collection of more 
than two hundred original drawings and unpublished quarto lith— 
ograph plates made by the late Professor August Koehler, which 
were designed to illustrate a work on the flora of North Am 
ica. Professor Koehler published a “ Practical Botany ’’ in Be 
which was widely used in botanical instruction at that period. 
r. Harlan P. Kelsey has presented a valuable and eee 
collection of hardy ee shrubs and trees, mainly from the 
Southern Alleghanies, including some seventy species not ae 
represented in the plantations. These have been distributed in 
the herbaceous grounds, fruticetum and nurseries. 
Mr. Nathaniel Thayer, of South Lancaster, Mass., has pre- 
plants 
der plants contributed by several other friends have been stored 
in the basement of the museum building awaiting the completion 
of the western end of the range of greenhouses, which will not be 
delayed much longer. 
BEQUEST OF JUDGE DALY. 
The following is extracted from the of Ex-Chief Justice 
Charles P. Daly, probated October 23, 1899. 
Article 8, Section: 3. I give, devise and bequeath to my exec- 
utor, Henry R. Hoyt, the sum of twenty thousand dollars, in 
trust, nevertheless, to invest and reinvest the same, and to pay 
over the net annual interest, dividends or income thereof to my 
