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  BOTANICAL 
  GAZETTE. 
  [ 
  October, 
  

  

  one 
  and 
  putteth 
  down 
  another'' 
  in 
  truly 
  regal 
  style, 
  until 
  the 
  amateur 
  

   can 
  hardly 
  tell 
  whether 
  his 
  plant 
  should 
  be 
  called 
  a 
  species, 
  a 
  sub-species, 
  

   a 
  variety, 
  a 
  sub- 
  variety, 
  a 
  form 
  or 
  a 
  sub- 
  form. 
  However 
  he 
  will 
  be 
  

   helped 
  to 
  know 
  what 
  this 
  writer 
  means 
  by 
  the 
  six 
  plates 
  of 
  details 
  which 
  

   accompany 
  the 
  monograph. 
  

  

  OPEN 
  LETTERS. 
  

  

  In 
  reference 
  to 
  *' 
  biology. 
  

  

  »9 
  

  

  [The 
  following 
  has 
  been 
  received 
  from 
  a 
  " 
  prominent.zoologist."] 
  

  

  So 
  there 
  is 
  trouble 
  in 
  the 
  botanical 
  camp. 
  The 
  wicked 
  zoologists 
  have 
  

   been 
  taking 
  more 
  than 
  their 
  share 
  and 
  a 
  " 
  prominent 
  botanist" 
  accuses 
  

   them 
  in 
  the 
  September 
  Gazette 
  of 
  lack 
  of 
  philological 
  lore, 
  of 
  common 
  

   honesty 
  or 
  of 
  even 
  worse 
  crimes. 
  He 
  even 
  insinuates 
  that 
  zoologists 
  are 
  

   ashamed 
  of 
  the 
  word 
  zoology. 
  All 
  because 
  they 
  claim 
  to 
  teach 
  biology. 
  

   My 
  memory 
  is 
  not 
  very 
  long, 
  but 
  it 
  runneth 
  back 
  to 
  a 
  time 
  when 
  we 
  

   boot 
  was 
  on 
  the 
  other 
  leg. 
  Then 
  biology 
  was 
  never 
  heard 
  of. 
  Instead 
  we 
  

   had 
  the 
  college 
  curricula 
  with 
  their 
  natural 
  history 
  courses, 
  composeo 
  

   solely 
  of 
  botany 
  and 
  geology. 
  There 
  was 
  indeed 
  the 
  college 
  museum 
  witj 
  

   its 
  leather 
  sided 
  animals 
  and 
  its 
  rows 
  of 
  impaled 
  flies 
  and 
  other 
  wngea 
  

   tortures, 
  but 
  aside 
  from 
  this 
  the 
  existence 
  of 
  the 
  animal 
  kingdom 
  was 
  

   not 
  recognized 
  within 
  college 
  walls 
  except 
  in 
  the 
  Sunday 
  dinner 
  at 
  m 
  

   college 
  boarding 
  house. 
  I 
  repeat, 
  biology 
  was 
  then 
  unknown-not 
  on 
  j 
  

   the 
  name 
  but 
  the 
  very 
  thing 
  itself. 
  Was 
  aught 
  of 
  ^wv 
  seen 
  when 
  reaaiUa 
  

   those 
  dismal 
  and 
  dreary 
  papers 
  constituting 
  a 
  Glossary 
  of.Botam» 
  

   Terms 
  ? 
  Did 
  the 
  student 
  learn 
  anything 
  about 
  life 
  while 
  trying 
  to 
  se^ 
  

   arate 
  Thalictrum 
  from 
  Anemone 
  or 
  trying 
  to 
  unravel 
  the 
  snarl 
  ot 
  the 
  Abi» 
  

   and 
  Solidagos 
  ? 
  I 
  ween 
  not. 
  Life 
  and 
  biology— 
  a 
  discourse 
  on 
  uie-- 
  

   made 
  its 
  first 
  appearance 
  in 
  the 
  minds 
  of 
  the 
  students 
  when 
  zm%i 
  

   lebowed 
  its 
  way 
  into 
  the 
  curriculum. 
  It 
  was 
  not 
  until 
  the 
  liv}Og;^™!;,„ 
  

   the 
  animal 
  is 
  not 
  a 
  myth) 
  thrust 
  out 
  its 
  pseudopodia 
  right 
  m/Jf 
  jVy 
  

   face 
  of 
  the 
  student, 
  not 
  until 
  the 
  action 
  of 
  the 
  frog's 
  heart 
  was 
  studiea 
  ; 
  

   every 
  pupil, 
  that 
  biology 
  came 
  in. 
  Zoology 
  brought 
  the 
  impetus 
  ana 
  i 
  

   Idea 
  and 
  m 
  many 
  a 
  college 
  where 
  the 
  botanist 
  still 
  goes 
  his 
  weary 
  rou 
  

   ot 
  tmding 
  out 
  whether 
  the 
  (mile 
  is 
  arthotropm^s 
  or 
  anatrrpous 
  and 
  w^ 
  

   ing 
  at 
  the 
  placentation 
  of 
  the 
  ovule, 
  all 
  study 
  of 
  Ufo 
  is 
  still 
  left 
  to 
  "• 
  

   zoologist. 
  Why 
  should 
  not 
  he 
  claim 
  the 
  word 
  biology 
  ? 
  

  

  Protective 
  resemblance 
  in 
  Cassia. 
  

  

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  in 
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