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fig but distinct and different in the various species of 

 the genus Ficus. It would seem probable that most, if 

 not all, of the six hundred or more species of wild figs 

 throughout the world are as dependent for their con- 

 tinued existence on their respective fig wasp guests as 



is the Caprifig. 



B. E. Dahlgren. 



Exhibits in the Field Museum pertaining to the Mulberry 

 Family and the Fig are to be found in the Department of Botany, 

 Halls 28 and 29, particularly, a reproduction of a fruiting branch 

 of the Cultivated Fig, an enlarged section of a young flower 

 receptacle, an enlarged section of a Caprifig with the male and 

 female Fig Wasps, wood and rubber of Ficus, etc. 



In the Department of Geology, Hall 18, are to be seen fossil 

 Figs, of the Cretaceous period, from Wyoming and Kansas. 



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