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Herbarium, Italy; Bordere, France; Bunge, China; Bourgeau, France; 

 Muller, Australia; McOwan, South Africa; Bolus, Africa, and many 

 others. The Hall herbaritim embraces the years 1845 to 1880. Its 

 imique element consists in a large number of specimens gained by 

 gro^ng plants near his home, in the neighborhood of Athens, Illinois, 

 from seeds gathered in the western and southwestern regions of the 

 United States and others secured from fruiting herbariimi specimens 

 from all parts of the world; thus enabling investigators to compare 

 original plants with those grown in a widely different environment. 

 The other notable additions for the year are: Ames, Philippine orchids 

 258; Clements, California plants 371; Gaumer, Yucatan 311; Grant, 

 Washington 76; Miss King, Kentucky 397; Lansing and Sherif, Illinois 

 92; Meyer, China 81; Miss Moodie, Alberta 398; New York Botanical 

 Garden, West Indies 1,447; Miss Standley, Florida 335; U. S. National 

 Herbariimi, various regions 324; University of California, California 

 129; and Wenzel, Philippines 636. The additions to the organized 

 herbarium during the year are regionally shown in the following table. 

 These figures represent only those regions that have been augmented 

 dm-ing the past year — not the herbarium as a whole : 



LOCALITY 



Added to 

 Herbarium 



Total 

 in 



Arctic Region: 



in 1916 



Herbarivim 





.... 3 



8 



Alaska 



.... 3 



1,151 







I 







36 



Canada: 









.... 418 



1,151 







383 



United States: 











1,540 





.... 59 



8,190 





.... 505 



24,273 





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187 





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10 





.... 6 



9,258 





.... 75 



637 





.... 4 



1,306 





.... 14 



2,524 



Florida (Excl. of Keys) 



.... 342 



20,107 







3,650 





.... 948 



23,186 





.... 36 



6,257 





.... 397 



1,368 





.... 23 



1,200 





.... 78 



3.431 





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