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needed by those using the herbarium, thus effecting a saving of 
considerable time and energy that would be unnecessarily wasted, 
if the main library had to be constantly consulted. 
An important feature in contemplation is a series of cabinets 
with drawers and closets, to alternate with the tables through the 
middle of the room. In these are to be placed specimens too 
bulky to be mounted on herbarium sheets, such as fruits, certain 
kinds of fungi and specimens preserved in alcohol and formal- 
ehyd. These cabinets will also aid materially in the general 
operations of the herbarium; being higher than the tables, 
they will furnish a place to work in a standing position, while 
they will facilitate to a great degree, the sorting and distribution 
of the constantly accumulating herbarium sheets. The less bulky 
specimens of fruits belonging to desi mounted on her 
rium sheets, and certain fungi, such as the myxomycetes, that 
will not stand pressure are mounted in nee boxes of mu 
tiple sizes and placed in drawers. 
The Garden herbarium is especially rich in the fungi. In ft is 
incorporated the collection of Mr. J. B. Ellis, in itself the largest 
accumulation of fungi in ee and one of the largest in ex- 
istence. This series is represented by about 100,000 specimens. 
he remainder of the Garden herbarium is for the most part 
composed of flowering plants, the number of cryptograms, exclu- 
sive of the fungi, being relatively small. e flowering plants 
have been derived from available collections made during the 
past few years in all parts of the world, and many rare sets and 
miscellaneous specimens acquired through the accession of the 
ene ee ja: 
n J. Crooke herbarium, including various collections 
of aa oe an est Indian plants and a set from the 
herbarium of the United States Exploring Expedition. 
The F. M. Hexamer herbarium, consisting mainly of European 
and North American plants 
The H. E. Hasse ieee including plants from all parts of 
North America, including Greenland and Mexico; especially rich 
in specimens from the central United States and California. 
The Per A. Rydberg herbarium, oe of specimens from 
the Rocky Mountain region and 
