REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR I915 4I 



Memoir on the Wild Flowers of New York. Active work 

 upon this undertaking was begun in August and photographs were 

 made in central New York, vicinity of Albany, Catskill, New 

 York, and on Long Island, of over loo flowering plants which 

 bloom during the latter part of the summer and autumn. In this 

 work both dry and lumiere plates were used. Preliminary proofs 

 of several of the illustrations have been received showing the 

 natural color and grace of the wild plants in a manner that could 

 not be secured by any other process. 



Exchanges. Valuable exchanges of herbarium material have 

 been effected through which the state herbarium has been enriched 

 by the addition of 254 specimens from Prof. J. J. Davis of the 

 University of Wisconsin, 47 specimens from the New York 

 Botanical Garden, 62 specimens from Prof. John Dearness of 

 London, Ont., and 68 specimens from Prof. L. H. Pennington of 

 Syracuse University, in addition to several minor exchanges. 



Condition of the collections. With the addition to the staff 

 of Mr Joseph Rubinger, assistant to the botanist, it has been pos- 

 sible to place the herbarium in an excellent condition of arrange- 

 ment and availability for study. The collections, exchanges and 

 contributions of the current year have been mounted and placed in 

 the herbarium, together with a large quantity of unmounted 

 material which had accumulated in years past. 



Additions to the herbarium. The number of specimens which 

 have been added to the herbarium during the past year from 

 current collections is 584, from contributions and exchanges 396, 

 a total of 980 specimens, representing 938 species in addition to 

 more than 400 additional specimens which have been mounted 

 from the unnamed material accumulated in the past. 



Of these, 222 species were not previously represented in the 

 herbarium and 30 species and varieties are described as new to 

 science. The number of those who have contributed specimens 

 to the herbarium is 20. This includes those who have sent speci- 

 mens merely for identification and which were desirable additions 

 to the herbarium. 



Identifications. The State Botanist's office has been called upon 

 to identify or report upon 650 specimens of flowering plants, ferns, 

 mosses, lichens and fungi, by no different persons. 



