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University wish to extend their work in the Seaside Labora- 
tory. ‘They are made welcome. Besides these the Labora- 
tory is open to teachers or those especially interested or pre- 
pared to carry on biological study. Especial welcome is 
given to investigators, those well trained in such work, 
who have problems relating to morphology or physiology 
of marine plants and animals which they are capable of working 
out. Among this class no doubt in time many eminent biolo- 
gists will take their place. From the association and influence 
of such a class of men, biological study on the Pacific Coast will 
receive great gain. The teachers of biological science of the 
colleges and high schools of the Pacific Slope States should in 
time find in the Hopkins Seaside Laboratory what those of the 
Atlantic States find in the Marine Laboratory at Wood’s Holl. 
It is very obvious that to maintain such a station will require 
no small sum of money. But such important work and so well 
begun will not lack support. And most certainly the united 
moral support of those of the Pacific Coast States who are inter- 
ested in the advance of science in general, and of biology in 
particular, may be most confidently counted upon. 
THE BOTANICAL WRITINGS OF EDWARD L. 
GREENE. 
* BY KATHARINE BRANDEGEE. 
It has perhaps not escaped the notice of the botanical world 
that there is a very great difference of opinion in certain points, 
especially in the number of species belonging to the Californian 
flora, between Mr. Greene and his pupils on the one hand and 
nearly all the remaining Western botanists on the other. Some 
explanation of the causes of this difference may be of interest. 
_ All of Mr. Greene’s work tends to the inordinate multiplica- 
tion of species, and his species are, as a rule, so imperfectly 
described that no one without a close acquaintance with the flora 
or access to the types is able to make out his meaning. It seems 
to suit his convenience, wherever there is the slightest ground 
for difference, to at once describe a new species as vaguely as 
