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Bronx, Essex, Jefferson, Lewis, Madison, Nassau, Oneida, Os- 
wego, Rensselaer and Warren. In addition to these, 290 speci- 
mens of mosses, lichens and fungi have been collected and added to 
the herbarium. A large number of other specimens were taken, 
some of them duplicates of those reserved for the herbarium, to be 
used for the purpose of exchange with other institutions and 
botanists. 
Doctor Peck’s field notes. Investigators in mycology who have 
had occasion to refer to the late Dr Charles H. Peck’s types or 
other collections in the state herbarium, have often commented upon 
the fact that his descriptions and reports of species already 
published do not give the year of collection. This is explained in 
large part by the fact that the species described or reported upon 
were collected during the year for which the publication is the 
annual report. Very rarely does he report upon any collection 
except of the current year, the various monographs, of course, 
excepted. These monographs were very largely, if not wholly, a 
compilation of his former published and reported species, without 
much reference to the considerable mass of undetermined material 
of those groups which was stored away in bundles. This is well 
illustrated by Kauffman’s critical study of Peck’s material of the 
genus Inocybe (N. Y. State Mus. Bul. 233-244: 43-60. 1921). 
In his notebooks, Doctor Peck described under tentative names a 
very large number of fungi which his critical judgment did not per- 
mit him to publish for one reason or another. Without doubt, many 
of these are valid as well as unpublished species, as indicated by 
Miner, it tae Case OF StrOMMAaArIA CAMpeStTiriS, sac 
Stropharia rugoso-annulata Farlow; Peck (Mycologia 
14: 136, 139. 1922). Since the notes were made almost without 
exception from fresh material they possess a considerable value to 
the later students of the groups represented. In addition to his 
notes upon many well-known as well as little-known species made 
from fresh material, and never published, which are now available 
for consultation, the descriptions of his unpublished species will 
prove of value and assistance to future investigations. 
In order that these voluminous notes, occupying some thirty note- 
books, may be available for reference, an index has been prepared 
which has been typed with carbon copies. One of these carbon 
copies has been placed in the Office of the Pathological Collections 
at Washington, and the other in the mycological laboratory of the 
New York Botanical Garden. From the original copy, Dr Howard 
