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is, however, Professor Sturgis's botanical library, very complete for the 

 fungi, and including, I think, all the standard exsiccati, even those 

 of Europe. The books include a complete set of Saccardo, which is 

 now so difficult to obtain. My own library is nearly complete in those 

 groups (Coccidge, wild bees) which I have especially studied, and 

 contains much besides, among other things the Zoological Record from 

 1889 to date. 



On the whole, therefore, Colorado Springs offers good opportunities 

 for resident work along several lines; and I presume the facilities 

 will be improved every year. The other Colorado institutions I do 

 not know so well, but I have within the last few months visited the 

 State University, the Agricultural College and the Normal School. 



At the State University, at Boulder, I found Professor C. Juday 

 in charge of the biology, the regular incumbent, Professor Eamaley, 

 having departed on a tour round the world. I do not know very much 

 about Dr. Kamaley's work, except that he has published some inter- 

 esting studies of the epidermal tissues of flowering plants — a subject 

 of particular interest in the arid west.* Professor Juday is doing some 

 work for the Bureau of Fisheries, on the fishes of Colorado and their 

 food, and the constituents of the plankton of the Colorado lakes. This 

 work, of course, covers a field little explored in our state, and it is very 

 fortunate that it can be undertaken by a resident investigator, though, 

 as I understand it, his residence among us is only temporary. The 

 university museum and herbarium are sufficiently good to be very 

 valuable for teaching purposes, but from the standpoint of an investi- 

 gator they are disappointing. Perhaps the most pleasing thing in the 

 collection is a nice series of local birds, with full explanatory labels. 

 Judge Junius Henderson, the curator of the museum, has devoted 

 a good deal of attention to the birds, and also to paleontology. The 

 new library building of the university is extremely beautiful and the 

 library arrangement and facilities for getting at the books could 

 scarcely be bettered. I noticed among the books a set of the Chal- 

 lenger Eeports, Nature from the beginning, all of Pittonia, Edward's 

 ' Butterflies of North America/ and many other good things. 



The Agricultural College, at Fort Collins, is chiefly noted bio- 

 logically for the entomological work of Professor Gillette and his 

 former assistants Professor Ball, Mr. C. F. Baker and Mr. E. S. G. 

 Titus. From this institution have come the important ' List of the 

 Hemiptera of Colorado/ Professor Gillette's revision of the Typhlo- 

 cybidse and many other works known to all entomologists. There is 

 just now ready for publication the first part of a catalogue of the 



* Since this was written Dr. Ramaley has returned from his journey round 

 the world, bringing a large and most interesting collection from Java, Ceylon, 

 Japan, etc. He is engaged in special researches on the anatomy of the 

 cotyledon. 



