NEW CREATIONS IN PLANT LIFE 



evolution in Leland Stanford University; ne 

 has been granted a subvention of a hundred 

 thousand dollars by the Carnegie Institution. 

 He has not attempted to fathom all the 

 depths that Nature holds, but he has so 

 sounded those depths he has selected for 

 investigation, and so set his life to the 

 advancement of the world, that his place 

 must not only be a noble one today, but a 

 still more commanding one tomorrow. It is 

 not too much to say that volumes could 

 be prepared from the newspaper references 

 to Mr. Burbank made in the past year or two. 

 The following quotation from a New Jersey 

 newspaper, the "News," of Newark, may be 

 taken as a fair summing up of the more 

 serious popular estimates of his life and 

 achievements : 



"Luther Burbank, — until recently an 

 unknown name, — has bestowed upon the 

 world a greater increment of values, in things 

 done and things inevitable, which are for 

 the permanent betterment of civilization, than 

 any score of celebrities in this decade or in 

 any previous decade or century, when the 

 fact is submitted to ultimate analysis. He 



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