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chusetts, Xew York, Minnesota, and the same is true of 

 American beech, water beech, Kentucky coffee-tree and 

 others. In this work, botanists could be of great assistance 

 in locating desirable specimens and providing for a supply 

 of seeds from year to year. If we all co-operate in this mat- 

 ter, and endeavor to secure such information regarding 

 specimens as may be (obtained, the perpetuation of our desir- 

 able plants will be more secure. 



Botany in the Schools. — There is no reason for sur- 

 prise in the patent fact that few of the myriads of students 

 of botany during the last half century have become 

 professional botanists : investigators are born not manufac- 

 tured, there may be just ground even for a growing feeling 

 that in its application to education botany should appear in 

 a different guise and with different accents fro^n the same 

 science as the investigator knows it. If we are wise and alert 

 who wish to see botany or even biology at large continue — as 

 we all must believe that it should — an element of popular 

 instruction, we must see that in the school it regains that 

 simple, understandable, everyday relation w^ith everyday life 

 that its vastly simpler precurser possessed ; that in the college 

 its more complex present day relations with life are made 

 part of the equipment of 'all those w^ho are to teach it in the 

 schools and to follow it into the university ; and that in the 

 university its study is characterized by that breadth of under- 

 standing and a scope of vision commensurate with that refined 

 specialization which marks the successful delver after facts. — 

 Prof. Win. Trelease in Science. 



