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German second-hand dealer. In this vast mountain of printed 

 matter a number of lines were particularly richly represented ; 

 among them was taxonomic botany, a surprising number of rare 

 books turning up which Prof. Coulter had been watching for 

 through years without succeeding in finding. In 1875, at Hano- 

 ver College, the Botanical Gazette first saw light, and it has en- 

 joyed continuous existence up to the present, always under Dr. 

 Coulter's editorial supervision. At first a personal enterprise, it 

 was taken over by the university in March, 1896. It is a monthly 

 journal, the numbers comprising from eighty to one hundred and 

 twenty pages, and has always been a favorite medium for the ex- 

 change of botanical ideas and for the publication of important 

 papers. Notwithstanding the extensive arrangements for the 

 study of botany made at the University of Chicago, Dr. Coulter 

 writes : " But when all the space is used as planned, the demands 

 for work in plant diseases, so extensively cultivated by the Gov- 

 ernment and at experiment stations ; in economic botany, includ- 

 ing the great field of forestry ; in paleobotany, which is in sad 

 need of being cultivated in a botanical atmosphere, are not met. 

 It will be seen, therefore, that abundant as the space and the 

 privileges are from a comparative standpoint, from the stand- 

 point of the subject in relation to a great university the necessi- 

 ties are far greater." 



While the work of the Departments of Sociology, Philology, 

 and Philosophy perhaps deserves mention here, our aim is rather 

 to present those lines of science which by instrumental equipment, 

 museum collections, or rigidly scientific methods of instruction 

 occur immediately to the mind upon the mention of the word 

 science. It is hardly possible, however, for us to omit reference 

 to the University School. Closely connected with the Department 

 of Philosophy and under the same direction is the Department of 

 Pedagogy. The work is both theory and method. To illustrate 

 principles and to furnish opportunity for scientific study of a 

 well-balanced curriculum in the earlier grades, a school is con- 

 ducted. Something over thirty pupils are in attendance. Prof. 

 Dewey's own statement regarding this school may well be quoted : 



" The conception underlying the school is that of a labora- 

 tory ; it bears the same relation to work in pedagogy that a lab- 

 oratory bears to biology, physics, or chemistry. Like any such 

 laboratory, it has two main purposes : (1) to exhibit, test, verify, 

 and criticise theoretical statements and principles ; (2) to add to 

 the sum of facts and principles in its special line. 



" As it is not the primary function of a laboratory to devise 

 ways and means that can at once be put to practical use, so it is 

 not the primary purpose of this school to devise methods with 

 reference to their direct application in the graded school system. 



