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of AUGUST FENDLER in New Mexico, Venezuela and Trinidad, of Dr. GEORGE 
THURBER on the Mexican boundary, of Messrs. BREWER, BOLANDER and others 
in California, of Dr. SERENO WATSON in the Great Basin, and of Dr. ROTHROCK 
in Arizona merit particular mention on account of their size and importance. — 
In 1864, Dr. GRAY presented his herbarium and valuable library to Harvard 
College. From the early seventies until the end of his life Dr, GRAY was 
engaged in the preparation of the Synoptical Flora and his notes made then 
on the herbarium sheets adds to their value. His studies on the Mexican flora 
upon the basis of the rich collections of GREGG, WRIGHT, SCHAFFNER, PARRY, 
PALMER and PRINGLE are represented by notes made on the collections in the 
Gray Herbarium. 
In 1870 Dr. SERENO WATSON who had been engaged at the Gray Her- 
barium in the identification of the material from the Clarence King Exploration 
of the 4oth parallel, was made assistant and later in 1880 Curator. After the 
death of Dr. Watson in 1892, the present curator Dr. B. L. ROBINSON was 
appointed. 
Among the most noteworthy collections which have been incorporated in 
the Gray Herbarium are the herbaria of JACQUES GAY, G. CURLING JOAD, 
JOHN BALL, of WırLıam BOOTT, containing a wealth of New England material, 
chiefiy from the suburbs of-Boston, the White Mountains and Vermont, and 
the Compositae from the herbarium of Dr. F. W. Krart of Hamburg. 
The cryptogamic herbarium of Harvard University contains the collection 
of fungi of the late Rev. M. A. CURTIS, the lichens of EDWARD TUCKERMAN 
purchased in 1888 and those of C. J. SPRAGUE, J. MUELLER and W. G. FARLOW. 
The algae are represented by the sets of C. L. Anderson, G. J. AGARDH, 
J. E. ARESCHoUG, E. A. BATTERS, Ep. BORNET, C. FLAHAULT, M. FOSLIE, 
E. M. Hormes, F. Hauck, P. HENNINGs, F. J. KjELLMAN, M. A. Le Jouıs, 
F. von MUELLER, T. REINBOLD, J. REINKE, L. K. ROSENVINGE, E. P. WRIGHT 
and others. The mosses are represented by the herbarium of W. S. SULLI- 
VANT, the large collections of THOMAS P. JAMES and THOMAS TAYLOR. 
III. Middle Atlantic States. 
The early history of botany in New York State gathers about the ‚name 
of JOHN TORREY. However prior to his active labors, JACOB GREEN issued 
a Catalogue of Plants indigenous to the State of New York in 1814 and 
in 1829 JAMES MACAULEY, Trees, Shrubs and Plants of New York. JOHN 
TORREY was early associated with Major LE CoNTE, with Davıp Hosack, 
who during Torrey’s youth was engaged in the development of the Elgin 
Botanic Garden, where TORREY studied under the direction of that eminent 
physician and naturalist. His flora of the Northern and Middle States, or 
Systematic Arrangement and Description of all the plants heretofore discovered 
north of Virginia was published in 1824 and later his Compendium of the 
Flora of the Northern and Middle States in 1826. Appointed botanist of the 
