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The local herbarium has been more than doubled in size 

 during the past year through the accessioning and mounting of 

 the very large E. P. Bicknell herbarium, presented by Mrs. 

 Bicknell several years ago; the W. C. Ferguson herbarium of 

 Long Island plants, estimated to contain about 10,000 speci- 

 mens, bequeathed to the Garden in 1930; the K. K. Mackenzie 

 herbarium, presented, 1931, particularly rich in material from 

 northern New Jersey; the herbarium of the late Waldron de 

 Witt Miller, presented, 1931, and extensive recent collections 

 presented by Mr. H. M. Moldenke. This collection, particularly 

 important to those interested in the study of our local flora, 

 now contains approximately 50,000 mounted specimens. It is 

 available to any qualified individual who is interested in field 

 work in botany, or in identifying specimens collected from with- 

 in the area covered by it. To make the local herbarium more 

 usable, two copies of Taylor's "The Flora of the vicinity of 

 New York: A Contribution to Plant Geography" were clipped 

 and the individual entries were pasted on the specimen covers, 

 the keys to species being pasted on the inside of the genus 

 covers. Members of the Torrey Botanical Club, of the Biology 

 Teachers Association, and others interested in this field are in- 

 vited to make use of the excellent facilities that are now availa- 

 ble at the Garden through the existence of this important as- 

 semblage of material. 



BOOK REVIEWS 

 Cope : Master Naturalist 1 



The late Professor Cope was not a ranking botanist, al- 

 though in early life he taught botany along with zoology at 

 Haverford College. He was brought up on a country estate and 

 worked summers on a farm; where, as at school, he early took to 

 botany and became an enthusiastic and well informed amateur. 



1 Cope: Master Naturalist. The Life and Letters of Edward Drinker Cope 

 With a Bibliography of his Writings Classified by Subject. A Study of the 

 Pioneer and Foundation Periods of Vertebrate Paleontology in America. Henry 

 Fairfield Osborn, with the co-operation of Helen Ann Warren and others. Il- 

 lustrated with Drawings and Restorations by Charles R. Knight. 1931. Prince- 

 ton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey. 740 pp. $5.00. 



