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of the suburbs of a little Conny town he has been able to carry 
chair or amid the bustle of laboratory work. He has described 
more species of fungi than all ue ee botanists together. 
This richness in type or original specimens makes the collection 
unique g all the collections of the country, and the array 
merica, renders the collection ares valuable ‘for 
ee connected with nae distributi 
ollectors represented by specimens are Mr. H. W. 
Ravenel, of South Carolina, who contributed many of the 
terial from Texas and Florida; Rev. anglois, from 
ees ; Dr. George Martin and Mr. W. W. Calkins, from 
Florida ; eee S. M. Tracy, from Mississippi; Mr. L. W. 
Nuttall, jom West Virginia; Rev. C. H. Demetrio and Mr. B. 
T. Galloway, from Missouri; Professor W. A. Kellerman and 
Mr. Elam Bartholomew, fon Kansas; Mr. H. J. Webber, from 
Nebraska ; mn ssor T. A. Williams, from South Dakota 
Professor T. . Cockerell and Mr. E. Bethel, from Colo- 
rado; Rev. Bi D. ee ee F. W. Anderson and Mr. H. M. 
i a; Mr. W. C. Carpenter, from Oregon; Mr. 
N. Suksdorf and ae C. V. Piper, from Washington ; 
Mr. S, J. Harkness and Professor Marcus E. Jones, from Utah ; 
r. H. W. Harkness and Professor A. J. McClatchie, from Cali- 
fornia, and Mr. C. L. Smith and others from Mexico and Nica- 
ragua. 
The better known portions of the country are represented by 
specimens from Iowa by Mr. E. W. Holway; from southern 
io by Professor A. P Morgan; from Professor C. H. Peck, state 
botanist of New York; from Pennsylvania by Mr. B. M. Ever- 
hart and others ; from Delaware by Mr. Albert Commons ; from 
Professor W. G. Farlow, Harvard University ; many hundreds of 
aa from the region of the Great Lakes to British Colum- 
in Canada collected by Mr. John Macoun, and a nearly com- 
let collection from the Province of Ontario by Mr. John Dear- 
ess. Besides this there is material from Newfoundland by Rev. 
