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1889.] BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 3 



eyes of the community to its educational shortcomings. 

 Funds were at once raised for a Biological school under the 

 auspices of the University of Pennsylvania, in which the 

 same privileges were to be accorded to both sexes. This 

 was the very foundation-stone, the leading principle, out of 

 which the new movement took final shape. It should also 

 be added, it was fortunate that Prof. Horace Jayne, M. D., 

 was made secretary. But for the gift of his time, his execu- 

 tive ability and his money, the fullness of hope might have 



been long deferred. 



Plate I gives a northern view of a three-story brick 

 building, 82 X47 feet. A glance will show that, though noth- 

 ing has been wasted upon mere architectural effect, the more 

 important consideration of light for work has been fully con- 

 sidered. We may also add "that upon its heating arrange- 

 ment and water supply great attention has been bestowed. 



Plate II shows the interior of the laboratory of general 

 biology, seen from the east. This room, capable of seating 

 fifty students comfortably, and providing for all the appli- 

 ances of work, is now regularly filled with an attentive 

 and promising class derived from the biological and veter- 

 inary schools ; from the college and from the auxiliary med- 

 ical course. The same room is used for general biology and 

 for botany. In other words, it is the work-shop of the first- 

 year students. The advantage of this plan is that each stu- 

 dent can thus receive a simple and a compound microscope, 

 a full set of staining and micro-chemical reagents, and be 

 held strictly responsible for them. Each man has exclusively 

 the key to a safe-lock closet. On entering, he deposits a 

 moderate sum to cover breakage, etc. After deducting his 

 indebtedness, the remainder is returned to him at the end of 



the season. 



The long gas-pipe seen overhead and the jets along the 

 front wall supply to each worker means of applying heat or 

 receiving light as he may require. 



In the first term of the first year the entire class attends 

 the laboratory instruction of Prof. W. P. Wilson on the gross 

 anatomy of plants, and later on receives lectures upon the 

 elements of vegetable physiology from the same gendeman. 

 Ke also gives instruction upon describing plants. 



In the second term of the first year the students have in- 

 struction from Prof. J. T. Rothrock in analysis of our com- 

 mon plants. This work is, by choice, on dried plants. The 

 systematist in botany will always be obliged to do much of 



