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globe, and by special collecting trips to various parts of North 
America. 
The most complete sets of specimens secured on two note- 
worthy South American pee of oa are here pre- 
served; the one trip was that ma y Dr. Rusby through the 
«Andes of Bolivia, the other that - 7 Morong in Paragua 
and Chili. 
It is to be seen that the Columbia and Garden herbaria supple- 
ment each other admir ye and together form the largest collec- 
tion in America. 
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Fic. 8.—Floor plan of herbarium suite. 
The herbarium room has about 3,995 square feet of floor 
space. In direct connection with the herbarium there are store 
rooms, offices and laboratories on the top floor, while there is a 
large store room in the basement, and one of the basement ex- 
hibition halls is temporarily in use as a preparation sroom he 
floor space of these additional rooms amounts to more than 
7,636 square feet. 
Next to the herbarium room and accessible by two different 
doors are two store rooms. The larger room is designed to ac- 
commodate special collections while being studied, and at pres- 
