1897] OPPORTUNITIES FOR RESEARCH IN BOTANY 83 
Collections.—If the material to be studied is histological, the 
student is provided with alcoholic, or dried material, of which a 
considerable amount is kept on hand to illustrate certain points 
which sooner or later should be investigated. If the subject 
requires living material, the country near Cambridge and the 
seashore furnish abundant material. 
The herbaria at the museum are rich in fungi, alge and 
lichens, and at the Gray Herbarium are valuable collections of 
higher cryptogams and mosses. The lichens include the 
Tuckerman collection together with a number of other native 
and exotic collections; the fungi include the Curtis collection 
and a large series of published exsiccati; and the alge are 
represented by several valuable foreign collections and exsiccati, 
besides the large collection of American alge. : 
There are extensive collections of economic products in the 
museum. 
The Gray Herbarium of over 200,000 sheets, and rich in 
types, affords extraordinary opportunity for research in phaner- 
ogamic taxonomy. It also contains several important collec- 
tions of mosses. 
Remarks.—A botanical club holds fortnightly meetings. 
The staff of the Gray Herbarium is not included above, as its 
duties are not primarily instructional. 
University OF ILLINOIS. : oe 
Staf—T. J. Burrill, Ph.D., LL.D., Professor ; GF Clinton, 
M.S., Instructor; C. F. Hottes, M.S., 4 Assistant. | 
Subjects offered.—t. Taxonomy ni fungi and fresh water r alge. 
2. Bacteriology. 3. Histology. — ‘hysi¢ : 
Library —General library of ue eli 20 00 pam- : 
phlets contains about 2000 volumes strictly botanical. Includes an 
aint =e of - me pone European _— American | 
