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J. D. Hooker's Antarctic Expedition on which Taylor published, 
nevertheless the moss specimens in this herbarium, over 250, are 
probably the largest set outside Britain. These have been freely 
annotated by Sullivant, to whom the herbarium was loaned soon 
after it came to Harvard, and who kept it until his death. 
The specimens are generally small, but usually accompanied by 
notes and sketches. The proportion of types is remarkably large, 
including 120 holotypes of Taylor's published names. We have 
underlined types on the index, but only in the case of Taylor's have 
we made the bibliographic confirmations or distinguished holotypes 
from others. We have also underlined the large number, some 240, of 
Taylor's manuscript names, which are indicated as "Tayl. ms." From 
Taylor's time to the present, his herbarium names have been picked 
up occasionally, either by validation or in synonymy, by Hooker, 
Wilson, Mitten, Spruce, Brotherus, Hartmann, Dixon, W. Meijer, and 
probably others we have not noted. As is the practice with the 
reference herbaria at the Farlow, names in the original herbarium 
have not been altered to correspond with current nomenclature, which 
may be found in Index Muscorum. 
