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the New York Homoeopathic Medical College and Hospital, Presi- 
ee ot the cameilace Institute of Homoeopathy, author of a 
mo 
American collectors in recent years have been Dr. . Blank- 
inship in California and Montana and Professor DeAlton Saun- 
ders in South Dakota. In order to stimulate the exploration of 
regions the Characeae of which were little known, Dr, Allen has 
on several occasions assumed the attendant expenses 
eight 
“ mainland,” the . land of Nippon, are represented. 
The Allen collection contains the principal European exsic- 
catae, such as ‘‘ Die Crprateen Europ as’’ of Braun, Rabenhorst, 
ne erger, “Cl Exsiccatae "’ of Nord- 
stedt and Wahlstedt, ‘‘ Characeae Exsiccatae”’ of Migula, Sydow, 
and Wahlstedt, and ‘‘ Characeae Britannicae Exsiccatae’’ of H. & 
J? Groves. 
he collection is Fei by about 2,000 Baraat 
preparations mounted on glass sides and arranged in 
slide boxes of the a hnaey type. That part of Dr, Allen's ea 
pha to the Characeae has been deposited with the Garden 
; table in one of the laboratories has been set aside for his 
