fear will not be found acceptable by a great many botanists. I shall not 
_ Criticise it in detail, but I may be allowed to state that the most eminent 
teachers of ean insist on having their laboratories conform to the fol- 
lowing principles 
i" The laboratory should not be used as a lecture-room. Only oc 
sional help by drawing on a blackboard should be given to the stu ists 
_ the purpos 
se Models, dried specimens and specimens in spirit should be kept 
ae 
. Only a few important text-books should be admitted to the labor- 
ee Ale other books and periodicals may be consulted in the library. 
Chemical work should not be done on the same tables on which 
microscopical work is carried on. Whenever fumes dangerous to micro- 
: aes are given off in a chemical process a good hood is necessary. 
order to meet, all these requirements I submit another plan. 
; have ae indicated any windows, but have not left them out of account in 
ous as possible, but the exact position of them here and in all other rooms 
ought to be arranged with an architect, though not entirely left to him. 
At R, S, T, U, spaces are left for cases to hold material for cutting, bottles, 
mortars, funnels, etc. In the middle of the laboratory an iron column is 
to support the ceiling. The doors are indicated on the drawing, which 
will make the general arrangement of a cane as I should like to 
have it much clearer than I could make it by wor I refrain from go- 
ing into details, as I shall have an opportunity of sadide so in a future 
Paper for the GazErrE on the Oxford laboratory. To prevent misun- 
tory i 1s entirely different from the one I have designed.—SeLMaR ScHG6N- 
LAND, Botanic Garden, Ozford. 
Effect of the wind on bees and flowers.—It must be a matter of com- 
Men observation that the wind has an influence on the flight of insects 
, Moving with the wind, in rising and lighting they use their wings with 
_ More precision when their faces are turned against it.’ Thus, if a bee 
Comes with the wind, it turns when it visits a plant and lights on the lee- 
_ Ward side. If it is visiting flowers regularly, it moves against the wind, 
since ap can rise and light more easily by so doi 
__ Asimple effect of the wind on flowers is ‘ak it carries the odors 
that thiey are most readily perceived on the side toward which it blot 
/oSaereaemaepeeeeecme 
Florida { saw many buzzards and vultures lighting with their faces to the 
make 
es toward it. If one passed a few feet beyond hese be wished to light, he would 
os rele of 200 yards rather than turn with his back to the wind. 
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whereas oane ey teaching is to be done in a room specially fitted for” 
in'a separate room, from which they can easily be taken into the lecture- 
my calculations. In the laboratory they ought to be’as large and numer- 
derstanding, however, I have to add that the plan of the Oxford labora- 
and birds. While in continued flight they seem to have little difficultyin 
a ind. 
Lin 
Se rbed, they rose against the wind and swun: @ around a lighted with “belt 
