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public instruction, Dr. Howe, curator of algae, and Dr. Seaver, 
curator of fungi. Besides bringing together the thallophyte 
collections in one room and providing more comfortable quarters 
for the members of the staff primarily concerned with them, 
this rearrangement sets free about three thousand square feet 
of floor space on the fourth floor, which has been greatly needed 
for other purposes. 
Some time ago the New York Botanical Garden received in 
exchange with the Field Museum of Chicago a number of her- 
barium specimens, among which was a set of duplicates from the 
collection of the late Dr. J. H. Schuette of Green Bay, Wisconsin. 
Dr. Schuette was an enthusiastic collector and knew the flora of 
northeastern Wisconsin very well. Unfortunately he published 
but little, so that his fellow-botanists did not fully appreciate the 
extent of his botanical investigations and observations. He was 
especially interested in the native species of roses and published 
one short article on them in volume 46 of the Proceedings of the 
American Association for the Advancement of Science, in which 
he proposed one new species and a dozen or more varieties. His — 
descriptions were very short, comprising a line or two each, so 
that a student of the genus might be inclined from the mere 
reading of the article to discredit his work. But the collection 
of specimens now in the Garden herbarium and a similar one in 
the Gray Herbarium are both accompanied by copious notes by 
Dr. Schuette, which throw an entirely different light on his work. 
His new species is indeed very distinct, as is also a second un- 
published species which he had held in manuscript. Most of 
his varieties, on the other hand, are apparently natural hybrids, 
and his notes show that he had regarded them as such even at 
the time of publication. Few American botanists, if any, have 
given such careful attention to our native hybrid roses as Dr. 
Schuette, although he did not choose to express his convictions 
publicly and described them as varieties. 
