UTAH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 103 
In the taxonomic work Professors Marcus E. Jones, 
A. O. Garrett and Dr. Paul have done excellent service. 
And oh! what a field for the future botanist! Each of 
these has discovered and named many new species and 
genera of flowers. Thorough as their work has been, I am 
sure they will agree with me, that their field is little more 
than opened up. Last year the Forestry Service submit- 
ted to the Smithsonian Institution a dozen or more unheard 
of genera gathered in our western ranges. What Mr. Gar- 
rett and Dr. Paul have done for Systematic Botany and 
Nature Study, viz., made serviceable and reliable text-books 
for this region, some one ought to do for Physiology and 
Ecology. No where in the world is there a more interest- 
ing, varied and productive study of ecological relations 
than in the Wasatch Range. In a very few miles we can 
pass through all grades of fertility, temperature, moisture 
and altitude, and observe the effect of all these upon the 
plant growth. From the top of almost inaccessible pine 
trees, far up in the gorges of the Rockies, Dr. Land took 
photos of trees growing from crevices in perpendicular 
cliffs—pictures more highly prized than those from Mexico 
or Samoa. The same school, U. O. C., sent men to this very 
valley to gather the E'phedra trifurca, the only available 
source of this interesting gymnosperm in the United States. 
Let us come now to a brief consideration of my favor- 
ite branch of the subject, Physiology. On one occasion Dr. 
Barnes came to me and said: “Mr. Porter, the peculiar 
nature of the arid soils of your state, and the physiological 
relations of the constitutents of those soils to the plant body, 
would be a life-long field of research for a Plant Physi- 
ologist.”” To show how easy it is to find practical inves- 
tigation, permit me to mention two simple demonstrations, 
arranged for another purpose, and left scientifically in- 
complete. In order to impress the students of Human 
Physiology with the evil effects of alcohol drinks on the 
tissues, the similarity of the animal and the plant cell was 
pointed out and then seedlings were allowed to grow in 
solutions of 1-10, 1-5, 14, 1, 3, 5 per cent aleohol and rec- 
ords kept and sketches made. Inside of ten hours the 
