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ofWenham; B. F. Morrison of Nantucket ; M. Carimundo^. 

 Martins of Bissau, W. Coast of Africa ; Capt. James B.. 

 King, etc. 



John L. Eussell in liis Eeport on the 'Herbarium, states 

 that the removal of the Cabinets of the Essex Institute to- 

 Plummer Hall, rendered it necessary to arrange anew the 

 specimens belonging to each department. He says : 



" The western ante-room of the lower floor, having been 

 fitted up for the Herbarium and Microscope, and for the con- 

 sultation of choice books, the part assigned to plant speci- 

 mens has received what attention I could command, and 

 has been put in working order. One entire side has re- 

 ceived the folio sheets of dried plants, arranged as follows : — 



Bundles of Azorean, Brazilian, Australian, West Indian, 

 East Indian, Syrian Plants, gifts of various members ; some 

 of these are very choice. 



A series of Swiss alpine phenogams and cryptogams. 



The general Herbarium of the Institute, containing choice 

 specimens from the illustrious Cakes, Western species from 

 Lapham ; Rhode ' Island species from Olney and others. 

 Many fine specimens obtained in this vicinity at field meet- 

 ings, beautiful specimens from Tracy ; some of Nichols', 

 Osgood's, &c., &c. 



Incorporated and in their place are European species from 

 vicinity of Bonn, sent me by the celebrated Caspary of the 

 [Jniversity there. 



Several of the lichens, mosses and ferns are from remote 

 parts of New England, and selected from specimens given 

 me by Frost, or gathered by myself in New Hampshire and 

 Vermont, or at the White Mountains. 



Mt. Katahdin, in Maine, has furnished specimens by the 

 gift of Rev. A. P. Chute and Rev. Jno. Blake. 



These are all arranged on the system of Dr. John Lindley, 

 as exhibited in his " Vegetable Kingdom," (London, 1846.). 

 In the main they agree with Dr. Asa Gray's arrangement in 

 his Flora of North American Plants, &c. 



In drawers beneath the cases are fine specimens of rock 

 lichens from the cullings of Cakes, in the White Mountains, 

 and of myself in the Green Mountains, and on the lower 

 range near Brattleboro, Vt. 



