1897] OPPORTUNITIES FOR RESEARCH IN BOTANY 89 
of storage tissues and color layers. Beside the usual physio- 
logical apparatus, a number of pieces of more or less complex 
apparatus of special design, which were constructed for the solu- 
tion of problems under investigation, have been accumulated. 
Such appliances are often found to be of very great value in 
other work. New and necessary apparatus may be purchased, 
and that designed by the investigator can be made very promptly 
by the instrument makers to the electrical and physical depart- 
ments. 
THe UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA. 
Staff,— Charles E. Bessey, Ph.D., Professor; Frederic E. 
Clements, B.S., First Assistant; Cornelius L. Shear, Second 
Assistant; Edna L. Hyatt, Botanical Artist. 
Subjects offered —t. Plant morphology. Work in several lines 
of morphology has been given successfully for several years. 
2. Systematic botany A, being the study of a selected group 
of plants. Here the student will find ample material for the 
study of all the important groups (classes, most orders, and 
many families). The herbarium has been built up in such man- 
ner as to represent as fully as possible all the important groups. 
3- Systematic botany B, being the study of a local flora, and 
the preparation of a catalogue. The plains, and the mountains 
to the west, afford ample facilities for this work, supplemented 
by the quite full herbarium of the Botanical Survey of the state. 
4. Phytogeography. The collections made by the Botanical 
Seminar afford ampie material for profitable study. 
Library —The university library contains 34,000 v 
Tey ; , and 
the botanical library about 2000. In the university library 467 
petiodicals are received, in the botanical library 43. Of many 
of these it has complete sets; of others its files run back ten or | 
twelve years; while of still others the files are but a few — 
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