go BOTANICAL GAZETTE [ FEBRUARY 
Collections.— The herbarium contains from 70,000 to 80,000 
specimens, and includes exsiccate by Wittrock and Nordstedt, 
Rabenhorst, Le Jolis, Ellis and Everhart, Thueman, M. A. Curtis, 
Romell, Linhart, Sydow, Shear, Seymour, Tuckerman, Sten- 
hamer and Fries, Massalongo, Seymour and Cummings, Gottsche 
and Rabenhorst, Austin, Underwood and Cook, Heller, A. H. 
Curtiss, Harvey, Rydberg, etc. The quite complete herbarium 
of the Botanical Survey of Nebraska, by the Botanical Seminar, 
is also available for study. 
Publication — Ample opportunity for publication is afforded 
by “Contributions from the Botanical Department of the Uni- 
versity of Nebraska,” ‘Bulletin of the University Experiment 
Station,” “University Studies,” ‘‘Reports of the Botanical Sur- 
vey, and ‘Flora of Nebraska.’”’ The two last are published by 
the Botanical Seminar. 
Remarks.—A shop for the construction of apparatus is 
equipped with tools, lathe, anvils, etc. 
The Botanical Seminar is a very active organization, largely 
interested in the study of the state flora. At its bimonthly 
meetings botanical papers are read and critically discussed. 
Admission to membership is attained upon passing an examina- 
tion in the anatomy and morphology of the spermatophytes, 
morphology and development of the lower plants, embryology 
of spermatophytes, taxonomy, bibliography, etc. 
PURDUE UNIVERSITY. 
Sek Seales Coulter, Ph.D., Prolemer of Biology; J. C. 
Arthur, Sc.D., Professor of Physiological and Pathological 
Botany; Katherine E. Golden, M.S., Instructor in Biology ; 
Severance Burrage, B.S., Instructor in Bacteriology; William 
Stuart, B.S., Assistant. _ 
«Subjects offered. imaactigy: ns of spermatophytes. 
—Professor CouLTeR. Physiology ; ecology; pene: —Pro- 
fessor ARTHUR. Bacteriology. —Mr. Burripce. 
_ Graduate shia in these su a is ——- on with accom- 
