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The Department of Botany has received the usual annual additions 

 of herbarium specimens, among which the following accessions are 

 noteworthy: Botanic Gardens, Sydney, Australia, 201; Ezra Brainerd, 

 various states, 181; William C. Cusick, Oregon, no; C. C. Deam, 

 Guatemala, 112; Departmento de Exploracion Biologica, Seccion de 

 Botanica, Mexico, 279; A. D. E. Elmer, Philippine Islands, 1,372; 

 F. C. Gates, Illinois, Wisconsin, etc., 543; Geological Survey of Canada, 

 346; C. W. Grassley, Illinois, etc., 524; Gray Herbarium, Australia, 

 92; R. M. Harper, Georgia, Alabama, and Florida, 90; A. A. Heller, 

 western United States, 304; C. Judson Herrick, New Mexico, 208; 

 Dr. Walton Haydon, Oregon, 139; E. J. Hill, Illinois, etc., 85; O. E. 

 Lansing, Jr., Ozark Mountains, Missouri, 307, Michigan, Indiana and 

 Illinois, 156; Dr. C. F. Millspaugh, Turks and Caicos Islands, 423; 

 A. Nelson, Idaho, 173; Dr. C. F. Newcombe, Victoria, British Colum- 

 bia, 98; New York Botanical Garden, Cuba and Jamaica, 794, Mont- 

 serrat, 698; Dr. C. A. Purpus, Mexico, 552; Albert Ruth, Texas, 

 226; E. E. Sherff, Illinois, etc., 1,062; H. H. Smith, Alberta, British 

 Columbia, Washington, Oregon, and California, 747; E. Stearns, 

 Mexico, 81. One of the most important accessions of the year is the 

 acquisition by purchase of the private herbarium and library of the 

 late J. H. Schuette; this collection is estimated to contain from 15,000 

 to 20,000 herbarium specimens representing mainly the flora of 

 Wisconsin. 



The organization (i. e., poisoning, mounting, cataloguing and dis- 

 tributing) of the current accessions has been kept up to date, and 

 18,304 sheets have been installed from the larger herbaria, secured 

 by the Museum, in accordance with the following tabulation: 



Estimated Organized Previously 



Herbaria. Contents. 191 1. Organized. 



Heller 14,603 5,264 



Rothrock 22,510 14,178 8,027 



Schott 8,671 6 8,422 



Small 21,528 12,714 



University of Chicago . . . 45,000 4,120 25,780 



Additions to the organized herbarium, during 191 1, arranged ac- 

 cording to geographic locality, are shown in the following table: 



Added to Total 



Herbarium now in 



191 1. Herbarium. 



North America: 



Canada (in general) 4 1,960 



Alberta 8 429 



Assiniboia i 21 



British Columbia 135 1,083 



Vancouver Island 148 342 



