28 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 
A. Kelly of Baltimore has had additional copies made for his own 
mycological laboratory, and for the mycological laboratories of 
Harvard University and the Missouri Botanical Garden. Investi- 
gators working at Albany may have reference to these notes. Those 
working at a distance, or from consultation with the copies else- 
where, may secure upon application a transcript of such items as 
are desired. Unless the material to which the notes refer is quite 
ample, however, it is a rule of the New York State Museum not to 
lend material, especially of type specimens. 
Doctor Peck’s notebooks, covering a period from 1868 to 1913, 
are numbered from 1 to 32. The typed index to the thirty-two note- 
books occupies 130 pages, and is divided into: 
Personal Mention 
New York Localities 
Flowering Plants and Ferns 
Mosses, Liverworts, Lichens and Algae. 
Fungi 
The last is naturally the important part of the index and occupies 
the pages 25 to 130 of the manuscript. 
Identifications. The State Botanist’s office has been called upon 
to identify 753 specimens of plants, including many edible and 
poisonous mushrooms, during the past year. These identifications 
were requested by 194 persons, most by mail, some of them, how- 
ever, by personal visit to the office. The summary of this work by 
months shows that during late summer and autumn this service is 
in greatest demand: 
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The identifications made during this period represent very nearly 
a 200 per cent increase over the preceding year. 
Visitors. The extensive collections of the state herbarium, espe- 
cially rich in valuable type specimens of fungi, are frequently con- 
sulted by specialists in various lines of botanical research. The 
following botanists have registered in the herbarium for study of 
material during the past year: 
Dr L. O. Overholts, Pennsylvania State College 
Dr A. Gershoy, Columbia University 
Dr W. A. Murrill, New York Botanical Garden 
