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(28a) W (alter) B(suce) Xutter, an attorney-at-law 'of Buckhannon, 

 collected for his personal pleasure in Upshur, Lewis, Gilmer and 

 Randolph Counties from 1890 to 1897. His herbarium of about 

 700 specimens is in his personal possession. 



(29) Dr. J(ohn) K(unkel) Safall, of the New York "Botanical Garden, 



spent about a week in the neighborhood of Cumberland, Mary- 

 land, with special reference to collecting in the contiguous Penn- 

 sylvania field in 1890. During this work he made several trips 

 across the Potomac River into Mineral County, where he col- 

 lected about 50 specialized plants; these are now in the her- 

 barium of the Xew York Botanical Garden. (See also Small & 

 Brown). 



(30) !Mrs. N. L. Britton (E. G. Britton) collected a number of mosses 



in August, 1890, in the neighborhood of \\'hite Sulphur Springs, 

 Greenbrier County. These are deposited in the Moss Herbarium 

 of the New York Botanical Garden. 



(31) Dr. C(harles) FCrederick) MillspaugHj Curator of Botany, Field 



^Museum of Natural History, Chicago, began in 1890 a systematic 

 survey of the plant life of the State. In the work he visited 

 several localities in nearly every county. On one trip he drove 

 through \\ood, Wirt, Calhoun, Gilmer, Lewis, Upshur, Randolph, 

 Webster, Nicholas, Fayette, Kanawha, Putnam and Jackson 

 counties collecting leisurely througkout. During his field work, 

 covering two seasons, he collected 1580 numbers ; these are pre- 

 served in the herbarium at the West Virginia Experiment Station 

 with more or less full duplicate sets in the herbarium of the New 

 York Botanical Garden and that of the Field Museum of Natural 

 History. (See his "Preliminary Catalogue of the Flora of West 

 Virginia 1891" and "Flora of West Virginia 1896"). 



(32) Dr. N(athaniel) L(ord) Britton collected one day in August, 



1890, in the neighborhood of White Sulphur Springs, securing 

 about 40 interesting numbers ; he again collected the same region 

 in 1898, obtaining about the same number of specimens. Both 

 of these collections are deposited in the herbarium of the New 

 York Botanical Garden. (See Allen & Britton). 



(33) Me. L(awrence) W(illiam) Nuttall, then a mine owner at Nut- 



tallburg, Fayette County, spent most of his spare time from 

 business duties, from 1890 to 1898, in botanical field and labora 

 tory work on the Flora of his neighborhood. His large collec- 

 tions, mostly of fungi, are m his private herbarium though a con- 

 siderable duplicate series including his types in Lichenes are in 

 the herbarium of the Field Museum of Natural History. His 

 types in Fungi are in the Ellis Herbarium, now at the New York 

 Botanical Garden. (See Millspaugh & Nuttall, "Flora of \\"est 

 Virginia"). 



(34) Small & Brown. Hon. Addison Brown and Dr. J. K. Small spent 



about a week, in July, 1892, in Greenbrier County, in an explora- 

 tion of Kates Mountain and the vicinity of White Sulphur 

 Springs. The resulting material, about 150 plants, is now in the 

 herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden. 



(35) Dr. .AfNCREwO D(elmar) Hopkins, Forest Entomologist of the U. 



S. Department of Agriculture, has taken special interest in col- 



