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THE MORONG HERBARIUM. 
The extensive botanical collections of the late Rev. Thomas 
of Managers of the Garden in 1806, relative to the Columbia 
Herbarium and Botanical Library, which have been in the cus- 
tody of the Garden for about a year. For the purposes of this 
deposit, the Barnard College Herbarium is made a part of the 
Columbia Herbarium, each specimen being, however, made plainly 
sl era by a suitable stam 
This important accession to the Garden collections is estimated 
to ae not less than 18,000 specimens. It consists mainly of 
plants of North America collected by Mr. Morong in various 
parts of the country, an tai by purchase, and in 
exchange with other botanists and collectors, during the period 
from 1860-1 It will supplement the C ia Herbarium 
to a considerable extent by supplying specimens of other collec- 
tors than those there represented, and a few of species not found 
at all in the Columbia collections. 
Morong’s original investigations were € mainly i in the tax-, 
NAL. r. Morong was also greatly need in our 
native orchids and in the lily family. 
The collection thus contains a considerable number of type 
