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available for investigation, and materials therefore can be grown 
in any quantity and with all proper conditions. 
Collections. —The herbaria are small; the phanerogams just 
under 4000 sheets; the cryptogams 2500 ; both general. 
Remarks— Smith College does not especially encourage 
graduate work at present, as it is devoting its main resources to 
strengthening its undergraduate course in all directions. Never- 
theless it does not decline to receive graduate students and it 
confers the Ph.D. degree upon the conditions usual in institu- 
tions of the first rank. 
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN. 
Staff— Charles R. Barnes, Ph.D., Professor of Botany; H. 
L. Russell, Ph.D., Professor of Bacteriology; L. S. Cheney, 
M.S., Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Botany; W. S. 
Marshall, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Biology; W. D. Frost, 
Assistant in Bacteriology. 
Subjects offered —t. Physiology, especially nutrition; Bry- 
ology.—Professor BARNES. 
2. Agricultural and Dairy Bacteriology.—Professor RussELL. 
3. Histology, especially of medicinal plants. — Professor 
CHENEY. 
ary. —The university library is deficient in many respects. 
It contains about 45,000 volumes and 10,500 pamphlets, of which 
about 1000 and 200 respectively are especially botanical, including 
full sets of many important periodicals. Such as are most used 
are shelved at laboratories. It is quite complete in the tax- 
onomy of bryophytes. It is supplemented by the libraries of the 
State Historical Society and the Academy of Sciences, Arts, and 
ters (about 2 = 0 volumes and pamphlets), which contain 
f transactions, etc., and some of the expensive 
general works; a by the t sian! tango of the professors, 
containing many separates. 
into a small conservatory 9 X 18 ft. for experimental work only. : 
- —s to the ues Department 
