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and one for biology and geology. The cost of each building is to 

 be $400,000, while $200,000 for each is set aside as endowment. 

 The names of the donors are at present withheld. 



A publication entitled "The Physiology of Stomata," by 

 Professor Francis E. Lloyd, has been approved by the Carnegie 

 Institution of Washington, and is now in press. 



Professor L. M. Underu-ood has an article in the Popular 

 Science Monthly for June, 1907, on "The Progress of Our 

 Knowledge of the Flora of Xorth America," from which it is to 

 be seen that nomenclatorial science suffers much from an indul- 

 gence in warj^ing prejudices, pointed personalities foreign to the 

 subject, and a general indulgence in more feeling than is consist- 

 ent with a judicial consideration of the main facts. 



A series of records of the evaporation rate at a number of 

 stations, distributed from Maine to Oregon and from Florida to 

 Southern California, is being carried out for the present growing 

 season by the Desert Botanical Laboratory in co-operation with 

 observers at the various stations. Tt is hoped that new informa- 

 tion may be obtained concerning the relation of climatological 

 evaporation to the growth and distribution of plants. 



The memhers of the staff of the Museum of Natural History 

 of Paris have opened an international subscription for tlie pur- 

 pose of raising funds to defray the expenses of a statue of La- 

 marck, in the Jardin des Plantes. Participants who subscribe 

 a sum of not less than twentv francs will receive a helioc:ra^alre 

 of an unpublished portrait painted by Thevenin in 1801. Sub- 

 scribers of two hundred francs will receive a plaster cast of a 

 bust by Fagel. 



The Neiv York Botanical Garden has received an appropria- 

 tion of $100,000 for tlie erection of additional glasshouses. 



The Botanical Department of the University of Chicago is 

 soon to have a new experimental glass house and plant garden, 

 which are to be situated near the Hull Botanical Laboratory. 



A bulletin on tlie relation of unproductive soils to plant 

 growth, by Dr. Burton E. Livingston, is in the press of the U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture. 



