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BOOKS AND WRITERS 



The folks in North North Carolina are now forbidden 

 to think about evolution. * * * ^pj-^^ Governor says he 

 does not believe that man descended from a monkey. * * 



* Neither do the evolutionists but certain southern thought- 

 throttlers have not discovered it yet. * * * Well, the 

 Governor of North Carolina will still have a subject for con- 

 versation with the governor of South Carolina though it 

 may now savor more of Darwan than of \'olstead. * * * 

 Charles W. Bowles of Menlo Park, Calif, has issued an in- 

 teresting "Outline of the Animal Kingdom" uniform with 

 his outline of the plant kingdf)m published in this magazine 

 for 1919. * * * "The tree that owns itself" has now 

 another distinction. * * * j|- [^^^ called in a tree sur- 

 geon to repair its broken limbs. * * * This magazine 

 published an account of the tree with photograph in 1918. 



* * * They are planning a national Arboretum in Wash- 

 ington. * * * Looks like a good move. * * * jf 

 may be observed in passing that what appears to the largest 

 Arboretum in the country is located in Joliet. * * * 

 More than 600 acres with all the native trees and most of 



