14 DIRECTORY OF AMERICAN MUSEUMS 



ZOOLOGICAL STATION. 



This station maintains a collection of living fishes and inverte- 

 brates of the locality; a set of alcoholic specimens of rare fishes, etc., 

 many of which have been described and figured. The station also 

 has a collection representing the archeology of the Channel Islands 

 of California, part of which is on exhibition in the chamber of com- 

 merce at Los Angeles. 



BERKELEY: 



UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA. Department of Botany. 



This department maintains a herbarium comprising 133,055 

 mounted sheets of plants. This includes an economic collection of 

 3182 sheets, 10,137 sheets of algae, 3267 sheets of fungi, 9285 other 

 cryptogams, and 107,184 sheets of phanerogams. There is also a large 

 collection of unmounted material, the greater part of which is available 

 for study, making a total available collection of about 250,000 sheets. 

 Although the general aim of the department is to devote special atten- 

 tion to western North America, a large number of eastern and Euro- 

 pean species is represented, while the collection of New Zealand and 

 Australian plants is considerable. The nucleus of the herbarium is 

 a nearly complete set of the state survey collections, to which have 

 been added nearly all of the sets distributed from western North 

 America and especially from the Brandegee herbarium, which is 

 rich in types and duplicate types and contains a good representation 

 of the Mexican flora. 



The herbarium is in chaige of W. A. Setchell, professor of botany, 

 who has assigned its keeping to H. M. Hall, assistant professor of bot- 

 any; it also profits by the labors of Mr. and Mrs. T. S. Brandegee, 

 who serve without pay, the former having the title of honorary cura- 

 tor of the herbarium. C. A. Purpus is the botanical collector. 



The herbarium is temporarily housed on the top floor of the Hearst 

 Memorial Mining Building, a thoroughly fireproof structure, where 

 it is accessible to graduate students and to visiting botanists. It is 

 supported by state funds administered through the officers of the uni- 

 versity, about $2000 a year being expended on supplies and labor. 



Connected with the herbarium is a botanical museum comprising 

 several thousand specimens reserved for research purposes, and also a 

 botanical garden of two and a half acres, in which about 2500 species 

 of plants are cultivated, and upon which the sum of $1200 per year is 

 expended. 



