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cyst wall in both species is thick and clearly defined, the contents be — 
coming contracted and clearly separated from it on the addition of — 
glycerine or salt solution. The two species seem to be quite distinct, — 
the reddish color and peculiar grouping of the cyst contents of MA 
simplex as well as its solitary habit being apparently constant charac — 
ters.— ROLAND THAXTER, Cambridge, Mass. ss 
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EDITORIAL. a 
THE TIME is ripe for the establishment of a School of Botany in” 
connection with some one of our large universities. In most of 
them, this great biological science is represented by a single man with - 
not stand for it all, and of necessity does injustice to the science am 
to his pupils. If a teacher is worth anything he is cultivating some 
one phase of the subject, and is impressing his pupils with the im — 
portance of that phase. The consequence is that our smaller colleges — 
are being filled with botanists who know only one kind of botany — 
which is perfectly right and proper, and think every other kind 
little or no consequence, which is by no means right and pro 
These teachers lack a true perspective of their subject, and propagate 
the little dogmas of their training schools as persistently as do the re 
ligious sects their creeds, 
IT Is THIS BROAD VIEW that was lost when botanists were com 
to specialize; and this view is to be restored by the establishment of 
schools of botany, in which, as in the Pantheon, all views are rep: 3 
sented. It must not be supposed for a moment that we are advocatl ng 
a diffusion of botanical training for the individual; but a student be 
ing trained in one department of botany can be made to appre cié 
the proper importance of other departments that are being cultive 
about him. In addition to this a certain amount of elementary trail 
ing in all the great departments is necessary, and this can be 
directed by those who stand for these departments. It is urged 
any good botanist can give a sufficient elementary training in © 
whole subject. We consider this to be a fallacy. It may be true for@ 
a year or two after the teacher has passed from under the guidance 
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