JOURNAL 
OF 
The New York Botanical Garden 
Vor. I. Marcu, 1900. No. 3. 
THE HERBARIUM. 
Witit Pirate IT. 
As soon as the museum building was mae advanced 
towards completion, in October, 1899, t k herbarium cases 
were put together and placed in the fe ae positions. 
Thereupon the accumulation of mounted material forming the 
Garden ae es was removed from the wae a office in 
Bedford Park Village and installed in these c 
In 1896 it was decided by an agreement ae een the Mar 
gers of the Garden and the Trustees of Columbia ate ie to 
deposit the Columbia herbarium in the museum building at the 
Garden, and shortly after the installation of the Garden herba- 
m, the removal of that large and historic collection, from Morn- 
ae Heights to Bronx Park was begun and accomplished 
without incident. 
The frontispiece will give an adequate idea of the main herba- 
rium room. (The photograph from which Plate II. was repro- 
duced was made before the herbarium was completed and ee 
museum seats and material temporarily stored here.) This room 
is in the east wing of the museum building on the top floor ; it is 
hty-fin t long, forty-seven feet wide and fully fifteen feet high. 
Tilueainasion’ is effected by numerous windows in all four walls and 
four large sky-lights along the middle of the roof. The light thus 
forty-two cases made up into ten sets, containing the flowering 
