360 The Botanical Gazette. [September, 
Marchica” bearing date of 1893, being fifty specimens of dried fresh- 
water alge, and also a volume of handsome exsiccati illustrating Mr. 
Hennings’ methods of preparing succulent flowering plants and fleshy : 
fungi for the herbarium, which every collector and preparator should — 
be sure to see. There is also here an interesting historical exhibit, 
probably the only one in the Exposition relating to botany, showing 
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the way in which J. J. Rousseau kept his specimens. It includes a 
vellum-bound volume, about eight by ten inches, in which the plants 
are fastened with strips of gilt paper, some loose sheets of plants? 
manuscript catalogue of his collection, and his list of signs used # : 
abbreviations. i. 
It is a significant fact that in only three places in the great Expos i 
tion does one run across the placard “Botany,” one of these being # : 
this place in the German exhibit, where some space is set apart for 
botany in the portion devoted to the German universities, one being : 
in the exhibit of the Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations, 
where a botanist is constantly in attendance, and one in the Uni 
sity exhibit in the Illinois State Building 
of Egypt, about 1700-1200 B. C., including wheat and Sea 
tubers of Cyperus, palm seeds, stolons of mint, Ae 
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f the grounds ® 
le Physiology 
Puccinia, Claviceps and Peronospora from designs by Dr 
and of Marchantia, pine seeds and seedlings, Primu ie 
of pine wood, etc., from designs by Dr. Carl Miiller, all i> sections 
del of Berlin. The same institution shows large omer and ga 
of wood,and microscopic mounts showing the effect of 118 ‘ 
ity upon the growth of mycelium, prepared by P per 
a set of Kny’s colored wall charts. The Botanical fe 4 a publ 
shows a dredge used for marine alge by Dr. Reinke, 4 
volume of his results. 
It will be seen that while thi 
any respect representative of the prese 
On the same floor, which is a secon 
seum 
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5 is an interesting exhibit it pi 
nt state of botany in 
d limited gallery; 
