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tions of Sowerby’s English botany \ Curtis’s Flora londinensis, folio, in 
two volumes, 1777-1798, and the new edition in five volumes, 1817-1828; 
Oeder’s Flora danica in seventeen folio volumes, 1761-1783, with sup- 
plement, 1887. 
The photographs, occupying eleven steel cases, have been mounted, 
catalogued, and arranged alphabetically in groups under Miss Tucker’s 
direction and the collection now contains 11,073 pictures. A large num- 
ber of these photographs were taken by Mr. Wilson during his many 
journeys for the Arboretum in eastern Asia, Australasia, India, and 
Africa, and many were obtained in the botanic gardens visited by 
him during his recent journey; to the Rochester Park Department 
the Arboretum is also indebted for a large number of useful and in- 
teresting photographs. While the number of photographs taken in the 
Arboretum is already a large one, Mr. Wilson is now filling in gaps, 
so that in time every plant cultivated here will be represented. Photo- 
graphs of famous trees in New England are also being made by him 
for the collection as fast as possible. 
The collection of Pre-Linnean books (before 1737) on the upper floor 
is a good one and contains the greatest bibliographical treasures in the 
Arboretum, including twenty-five books published in the fifteenth cen- 
tury, namely, Apuleius Platonicus, Herbarium 1481?; Barbaro, Casti- 
gationes, 1492-93; Bartholomaeus Anglicus, De proprietatibus rerum, 
1480-1491; Libri de re rustica, n.d. ; Crescentius, Opus ruralium com- 
modorum, cir. 1471; Herbolarium sen de virtutibus herbarum, 1491; 
Ortus sanitatis 1490 or 1497, 1496 or 1487, and 1491; Gart der gesunt- 
heit, 1485; Macer Floridus, De viribus herbarum, date unknown; Opera 
agricolationum, 1482 and 1496; Matthaeus Sylvaticus, Liber pandecta- 
rum medicine, cir. 1470 and 1480; Conrad von Megenberg, Buch der 
natur, 1478; Plinius Secundus, Historia naturalis, 1483 and 1496; Theo- 
phrastus Eresios, De historia plantarum 148 ?; Vincentius Bellova- 
censis. Speculum naturale, 2 vol. 1479 ?, and 3 vol. 1486 ?); Columella, 
Cultu hortorum, Hain 5498; Columella, Ortuli commentarium, Hain 
5495, and Lucretius, De rerum natura, I486.* 
Many editions of these fifteenth century books were published in the 
sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and of these the 
library contains eight editions of Macer Floridus, 1506-1588, with one 
of 1832; three of the Ortus sanitatis, 1511-1536; three of Columella’s 
Husbandry, 1551-1745, with one of 1824; seven of Pliny’s Historia natu- 
ralis, 1507-1685, with one of 1855-57; sixteen of Theophrastus, 1529- 
1644, and later, and nine of Crescentius’ Opus, 1534-1745, with one 18-? 
Of Prospero Alpino there are ten titles and editions, 1592-1745; five edi- 
tions of Francis Bacon’s Sylva sylvarum, 1627-1670; seven of Bauhin’s 
Pinax theatri botanici, Greek and Latin, 1596-1671; nine of Bonnefon’s 
Jardimer franqois, 1653-1684; seven of Van Oosten’s Nederlandse bloem- 
hof 1700-1749; twenty-one titles and editions of Richard Bradley on 
husbandry and gardening, 1716-1757; Brunfel’s Herbarum of 1530 and 
1532, and editions of a second volume; numerous titles and editions by 
Charles Estienne, 1537-1622; fourteen works and editions by Olfert 
Dapper, 1668-1703; full collections of the works of Dioscorides, Mat- 
*A fuller description of the incunabula in the library is given in the 
Arboretum Journal, vol. iv.. No. 1. 
