Herbarium Gains 39,000 Specimens

More than 39,000 mounted flower specimens from all over the world were added to the Gray Berbarium of Harvard last year, bringing the University's study collection of flowering plants and ferus to a total of 1,033,850 sheets of specimens. It was announced today in the annual report of Professor Merritt 1. Fernald director of the institution.

The Berbarium organized more than a century ago by Asa Gray, pioneer American botanist is reputedly the greatest in America and the finest in the world in North and South American flers

Due to the war much of the important loan activity between botanical scientists in the United States and Europe must temporarily cease. Professor Fernald said. During the past year he said, more than 12,000 duplicate specimens were sent out by Harvard to be institutions and individuals in the United States and to 27 foreign institutions