368 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [may 
AFTER OCCUPYING for twelve years small and in many respects unsuit- 
able rooms in the old college buildings, the botanical department of Univer- 
sity College, Liverpool, is at length to be housed in a new and commodious 
institute, the munificent gift of Mr. W. P. Hartley, of Aintree, Liverpool. 
The building is 37 by 85 feet, and five stories high. The museum will con- 
HARTLEY BOTANICAL INSTITUTE 
tain not only morphological specimens illustrative of the scientific aspect 4: 
botany, but also specimens of all products of the vegetable kingdom used in 
the arts, such as timbers, pharmaceutical products, cottons, hemp, flax, food- 
products, both in the raw and in the manufactured state. There is also pt 
vided an ample equipment of lecture halls, herbarium rooms, elementaty 
laboratories, and also laboratories for research in morphology and physiology: 
Mr. Hartley’s gift will provide University College, Liverpool, with a botanic 
laboratory worthy to stand alongside the pathological and physiological eed 
atories, the recent gift of Mr. Thompson Yates to the college. The — 
will in all probability be ready for occupation before the beginning Bie 
autumn of Igol. 
