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The desert botanical laboratory. 
A REPORT upon, the Desert Botanical Laboratory established by the 
Carnegie Institution merits much more than a passing notice. This report, 
prepared by Messrs. Coville and MacDougal,’ is admirably designed to set 
forth the important field which the Desert Laboratory is certain to occupy in 
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Fic. 1.— The Desert Botanical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution at Tucson, 
Arizona. 
research. Coville’s botanical exploration of Death Valley, more than a decade 
ago, led him to hope that it would be possible to carry on systematic 
botanical observations in some American desert under the auspices of an 
institution such as the one which has just been established. It was wise on 
the part of the Carnegie Institution to entrust the important matter of the 
*Covitie, F. V., and MacDoveat, D. T.: Desert botanical laboratory of the 
Carnegie Institution. Imp. 8vo. pp- vit 58. 24. 29 figs. 4. Washington: The 
Carnegie Institution, November 1903- 
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