THE LLOYD LIBRARY AND MUSEUM. 
This institution, while nominally an incorporated organization, is 
in reality dependent upon the support of two brothers, C. G. and J. U. 
Lloyd, who provide the funds for its maintenance, each for his own 
department; the former Botany and especially Mycology, the latter 
Materia Medica and Pharmacy. The institution is located at No. 224 
West Court St., Cincinnati, Ohio, and is a four story building erected 
by Mr. C. G. Lloyd for this purpose in 1902. 
THE LIBRARY. 
This is in charge of Captain William Holden, 
Librarian. It is devoted exclusively to the afore¬ 
mentioned subjects, and although of compara¬ 
tively recent growth, it compares favorably, in 
number of volumes at least, with shell old estab¬ 
lished libraries as are to be found at Kew. In 
monetary value, or in practical working value to 
the systematic botanist, the Lloyd Library does 
not compare with Kew, for the lattef is a selected 
library of years of growth, devoted specially to 
the wants of the systematic botanist. The Lloyd 
Library aims eventually to embrace all books re¬ 
lating to botany,pharmacy ,materia medica and 
allied sciences. With this object such subjects 
as physiological botany, elementary text books, 
technical botany, pharmacopoeis, etc., which 
would not be considered as in the scope of Kew 
are systematically collected in the Lloyd Library. 
THE HERBARIUM. 
This consists of about thirty thousand speci¬ 
mens (estimated) which were mostly obtained 
through exchange by C. G. Lloyd during the ear¬ 
lier years of his life. When Mr. Lloyd became 
interested in Mycology, some ten years ago, this 
feature was practically abandoned. Prof. W. H. 
Aiken has recently taken charge of this depart¬ 
ment and it is expected that from this time on 
the herbarium will have renewed life and 
activity. Lloyd Library and Museum. 
THE MUSEUM. 
One floor of the building is devoted to a museum of fungi and there have ac¬ 
cumulated many thousand specimens, During recent years Mr. C. G. Lloyd has 
devoted himself exclusively to the study of Gastromycetes, popularly known as the 
puff ball family. With the cooperation of a large number of correspondents from 
every country in the world, more specimens of these plants have found their way 
to this museum than can be found in all other museums in the world combined. 
Bach specimen is named, and labeled with the name of the collector and locality, 
and is preserved in the museum, no matter how well the same species may be rep¬ 
resented. Some common species, such as Lycoperdon gemmatum, are represented 
by over three hundred different collections. 
ITS DESTINY. 
This institution will never be sold or broken up. When the life works of its 
builders are finished, funds will be provided for its continuance under the care of 
some institution or university, best calculated to serve science. The entire collection 
of books and specimens is pledged by its founders to be donated intact to Science. 
