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accessories and accomplishing the Hving results is due to the genius 

 and skill of David C. Lithgow. The human figures, which are, 

 with a few exceptions, life casts, were made partly by Caspar 

 Meyer and partly by Henri Marchand, and the latter artist is also 

 responsible for the few modeled figures with portrait busts in the 

 Mohawk group. The electric lighting of this hall required the 

 installation of an entire new system of wiring to connect with the 

 general system of the building. 



The Charles H. Peck testimonial exhibit of edible and poison- 

 ous fungi. In view of the practical difficulties attending the 

 execution of a satisfactory exhibit of the general botany of the 

 State, it seems imperative at the present time to restrict the exhibit 

 to such field as lends itself to this purpose and is adapted to the 

 available space. The state herbarium is the great repository of 

 our flora and is always accessible to students, but is not for public 

 inspection. The skill of Mr Henri Marchand in reproducing the 

 fungi with extraordinary fidelity of structure and color and from 

 life in the field, has enabled us to take advantage of this opportunity 

 to create a permanent exhibit of these destructible bodies in all 

 their natural fulness and detail. Thus a satisfactory beginning has 

 been made on this work with the purpose of eventually preparing 

 a representation that will be reasonably complete. Prof. Charles 

 H. Peck, the first State Botanist of New York, whose long term 

 of service closed two years ago, devoted much of his life to the 

 study of mycology and it seems very appropriate that this special 

 exhibit of mushroom reproduction should be created as a testi- 

 monial to his excellent service. It has been intimated to some of 

 Doctor Peck's colleagues to whom he had rendered help in their 

 investigations that such a testimonial was intended and many of 

 them have given substantial evidence of their desire to participate 

 in it. 



Contributors to the Peck testimonial exhibit: 



Fred. S. Boughton, Pittsford, N. Y. 



N. L. Britton, New York, N. Y. 



E. A. Burt, St Louis, Mo. 



J. J. Davis, Chicago, 111. 



W. G. Farlow, Cambridge, Mass. 



Mrs Edwin P. Gardner, for the Botanical Society, Canandaigua, N. Y. 



John W. Harshberger, Philadelphia, Pa. 



C. C. Haynes, New York, N. Y. . 



Ann Hibbard, Boston, Mass.- 



L. R. Jones, Madison, Wis. 



Louis C. C. Krieger, Chico, Cal. 



