WOODS AND FORESTRY 
on exhibition in the Darwin HaU were presented by Mr. C. P Hunt- 
ington in 1891. 
A flawless plank of the California redwood, measuring six feet in 
width and seventeen feet in length, was added to the collection by Mr 
Jesup in 1905. 
Specimens of foreign woods were among the very early accessions 
of the Museum. They were received in 1876, being portions of ex- 
hibits of the different countries at the Philadelphia Centennial Exj^si- 
tion. Jamaica and Bermuda presented their entire exhibit, containing 
a rich display of tropical woods. Brazil, Argentine Republic, and 
Mexico presented a number of specimens from their exhibit, while 
others were received from Japan, Turkey, and the Hawaiian Islands. 
SCIENTIFIC STAFF 
The Jesup collection of North American woods was brought to- 
gether under the supervision and direction of Professor Charles Sprague ch.rie. 
Sargent, of Harvard University, under whose charge Mr. Jesup placed Sprigu. 
the Department of Economic Botany, when it was established in 1880. ll.d"'' 
Professor Sargent was at that time preparing a report for the Tenth 
Census of the United States on "The I'orest Wealth of the United 
States." Professor Sargent is an arboriculturist of note. Ho was 
appointed Director of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard in 1873, and 
since 1879 has been Professor of Arboricuturc there. 
Mrs. Mary Robeson Sargent executed the water-color sketches Mn. Mary 
which illustrate the foliage, flower, and fruit of the trees in the Jesup s«gen" 
collection of woods. 
Mr. C. G. Pringle and Mr. A. H. Curti-ss were engaged to collect c. c. Prinnie 
specimens for the wood collection. It was as agents for Mr. Jesup that ^ 
Mr. Pringle increased the existing knowledge of the trees of Arizona 
and Southern California, and Mr. Curtiss that of the semitropical 
forests of Southern California. 
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