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play a very important part. The upper floor of the museum 
building with an area of 19,000 square feet, and some special 
i work, 
e library is housed under t k 
extension to the rear. The physiological an phological 
laboratories occupy the western en taxonomic labora- 
tories herbarium the eastern end. ratories include 
a suite of fourteen rooms, giving separate facilities for in 
the main divisions of the subject e ent includes a 
supply of the apparatus necessary for resear he 
special features provid re be mentioned the dark rooms, 
chambers and sky-lighted apartment for living plants: the latter 
being furnished with a suitable aquarium. 
The presence of a number of investigators in different phases 
of the subject has a most stimulating effect upon the individual 
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counteract the tendency to over-specialization. The er of 
registered students using the laboratories, library or herbarium 
durin: st year wa nty-eight an os them were 
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graduates of colleges and universities. Investigators from other 
institutions, using our facilities for periods from a day to over a 
month, numbered more than a score. 
An especially profitable feature consists in the weekly conven- 
tions at which the student gives an account of his own results, a 
an address upon some subject of general interest. Subjects have 
a recently presented as follows : 
Summer’s Work at the mae Herbarium at Kew, Eng- 
nder 
“ Life-history and Devel ne hyte of Schizaea 
pusilla,’ by Mrs. Elizabeth a Britton and Miss A . Tay 
“Double Fertilization and Reproduction in the Fungi” by 
Professor F. 
as Researches on ee ticels,’” by Dr. D. T. MacDougal. 
“ The Cyclopedia of American Horticulture,” by Professor L. 
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