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smaller exhibit halls. One of these exhibit halls will contain a 

 botanical museum in which emphasis will lie placed upon the flora 

 of western New York, with a special room devoted to economic 

 botany. The plan for the completed building provides for con- 

 servatories to be entered from the main museum by passing through 

 a garden. 



A new kind of paper is being used by the Department of Agri- 

 culture of the Uganda Protectorate. Letters sent out from the 

 Office of the Director contain the following notice in the upper 

 left-hand corner : "This paper is manufactured from elephant 

 grass (Pennisetum purpureum) grown in the Uganda Protector- 

 ate." In view of the rapidly diminishing supply of wood pulp 

 and other raw materials for paper making in this country, it is 

 interesting to learn of the possibilities of elephant grass. The 

 paper made from it appears to be of excellent quality. 



Redwood drove Saved as Pioneer Memorial. — A wonderful 

 tract of 310 acres of giant Redwoods on the California State High- 

 way near Orick, Humboldt County, and about 60 miles north of 

 Eureka, has been given to the State of California as a memorial to 

 Plumboklt County's pioneers. It is the gift of Mrs. Zipporah 

 Russ, of Ferndale, Humboldt County, in memory of her husband, 

 Joseph Russ, who came around the Horn to California in 1852, 

 and also in memory of all the early settlers who helped to build up 

 Humboldt County and the state. Airs. Russ, as a young girl, 

 crossed the Plains with her family in 1853. The tract contains 

 166 acres and has a stand of close to thirty million feet of Red- 

 wood, as well as much other timber. It is admirably situated on 

 the State Highway above Orick and is crossed diagonally by 

 Prairie Creek, a good-sized stream which adds to the beauty of 

 the grove and to its advantages from the park and recreational 

 standpoint. The grove was dedicated on September 2, 1923. 



Some of the largest trees of the Redwood belt are found on this 

 tract of timber. One enormous Sequoia particularly has been dis- 

 covered, which is believed to be among the largest in existence. 

 Not only the Redwoods, but also the massive firs, hemlocks, maples, 

 spruce, oaks, and other trees found on this tract, together with the 

 giant ferns and other undergrowth, make it an area of unusual 



