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at  receiving  so  unexpectedly  such  a  valuable  addition  to  the  collections  of  the 
College,  and  accepted  the  same  on  behalf  of  the  Board. 
It  is  peculiarly  appropriate  that  this  superb  collection  of  plants  should  be 
permanently  located  in  one  of  the  foremost  educational  institutes  of  Mr. 
Martindale's  native  city.  While  in  recent  years  his  attention  had  been  largely 
directed  to  entomology,  making  the  Lepidoptera  a  special  study,  the  natural 
bent  of  his  mind  was  the  study  of  plants.  Botany  engaged  his  mind  from  his 
youth  and  gave  him  that  scientific  education  and  acquaintance  with  scientists 
which  proved  so  valuable  to  him  in  his  subsequent  work. 
Commencing  his  study  of  plants  at  the  time  that  systematic  botany  alone 
seemed  to  engage  almost  the  entire  attention  of  botanists,  his  enthusiastic  col- 
lections soon  secured  him  an  acquaintance  with  the  recognized  botanical 
authorities. 
His  early  attempt  at  the  preparation  of  an  herbarium  is  represented  by  a 
mostly  local  collection  mounted  on  sheets  of  paper  and  bound  in  a  series  of 
volumes.    These  will  be  preserved  for  their  historical  interest. 
The  present  herbarium  was  commenced  in  his  early  manhood,  and  its  collec- 
tion and  arrangement  occupied  at  least  25  years.  During  a  great  portion  of 
this  time  he  enjoyed  the  friendship  and  assistance  in  this  work  of  Charles  F. 
Parker.    It  will  always  be  recognized  as  Mr.  Martindale's  life  work. 
This  collection  consists  of  seven  large  walnut  cases  compactly  filled  with 
mounted  specimens.  It  is  impossible  to  form  any  definite  idea  of  the  number 
of  plants  contained,  as  on  many  of  the  sheets  several  specimens  are  attached 
from  different  localities. 
Nearly  every  species  is  represented  by  a  number  of  specimens  from  different 
sections  of  this  country  or  from  foreign  countries,  so  as  to  fully  represent  the 
variations  in  the  species. 
These  specimens  are  all  handsomely  mounted  on  white  paper,  and  properly 
arranged  in  heavy  manilla  paper  genus  covers  and  in  natural  order  divisions, 
the  plan  of  arrangement  adopted  being  that  of  Durand's  index,  correspond- 
ing with  the  nomenclature  of  the  Genera  Plantarum  of  Bentham  and  Hooker. 
The  systematic  arrangement  and  perfect  order  of  this  herbarium  have  always 
been  admired  by  visiting  botanists 
Every  division  of  systematic  botany  is  well  represented.  Not  only  the 
Phanerogamia  or  flowering  plants,  but  the  Pteridophyta,  including  a  magnifi- 
cent collection  of  ferns  ;  the  mosses  and  liverworts,  and  the  Thallophyta  are 
represented  by  a  collection  of  algae,  fungi  and  lichens.  It  was  the  aim  of  Mr. 
Martindale  to  make  his  collection  complete  and  a  representative  herbarium, 
and  it  is  universally  acknowledged  as  surpassing,  both  in  numbers  and  in  the 
perfection  of  style  and  arrangement,  any  private  collection  in  America. 
His  proximity  to  and  knowledge  of  the  peculiar  flora  of  the  pine  barrens  of 
New  Jersey  gave  him  a  fund  of  material  valuable  for  exchanges,  and  he  was  not 
slow  to  take  advantage  of  this  in  obtaining  valuable  specimens  to  complete  his 
own  collection.  His  correspondence  and  exchanges  were  numerous,  including 
such  countries  as  Canada,  Brazil,  England,  France,  Germany,  Austria  and 
Scandinavia,  and  the  flora  of  these  are  represented  in  the  herbarium.  Mr. 
Martindale  paid  considerable  attention  to  the  peculiar  and  miscellaneous  plants 
of  the  ballast  grounds,  and  this  class,  difficult  of  study  to  the  ordinary  student, 
