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The three species not yet protected are the 

 lesser birds of paradise, the twelve-wired bird 

 of paradise and the rifle-bird. Inasmuch as 

 bird protection continually gains in public 

 favor, it is safe to predict that within a rea- 

 sonable time all the birds of the Dutch East 

 Indies will receive the complete protection that 

 an embargo on exportations easily can afford. 

 In this connection it is to be noted that on 

 January 1, 1915, a law prohibiting the impor- 

 tation of wild bird's plumage for commercial 

 purposes went into effect over the whole 

 dominion of Canada, and thus the prohibition 

 now covers North America north of Mexico. 



EEVEBCEON PARE, DALLAS, TEXAS 

 At a recent meeting of the park hoard of 

 Dallas, a tract of land of 36 acres recently 

 purchased and provisionally named " Turtle 

 Creek Park " was formally named " Keverehon 

 Park " in honor of the botanical work of Mr. 

 Julien Reverchon. 



Julien Eeverchon was born near Lyons, 

 France, in 1837. When eighteen years of age 

 he came with his father to America and 

 settled in the French colony near Dallas. In 

 Prance when fourteen years of age he had a 

 collection of 2,000 species of plants. Through- 

 out fifty years at Dallas up to his death in 

 1905 he continued active work in the collec- 

 tion and study of plants. The estimate of his 

 worth and work is perhaps best given in the 

 words of botanists who knew him well, as here 

 indicated. 



Dr. E. G. Eberle, intimately associated with 

 him, here states: 



It was largely due to his efforts that the Texas 

 flora became known. He freely contributed botan- 

 ical specimens to various institutions of science 

 and learning, to the agricultural department of 

 the United States and to the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion. His collection included plants not only of 

 Texas but of all parts of North America and for- 

 eign countries, totaling more than 10,000 specimens 

 representing more than 3,000 species. 



This collection was secured for the Missouri 

 Botanical Garden in 1906. 



Dr. Asa Gray many years ago in naming the 

 genus Reverchonia referred to him as " a valu- 

 able correspondent, an acute and sedulous 

 botanist." 



Dr. Wm. Trelease, University of Illinois : 

 I, indeed, think that Dallas should commemo- 

 rate in one of its parks the name of Julien Rever- 

 chon, a man of rare intelligence and enthusiasm 

 whose work on the native plants of Texas and 

 particularly of Dallas County, will long stand as 

 of the fullest and best. 



Dr. J. M. Greenman, Missouri Botanical 

 Garden, St. Louis: 



The scientific value of Mr. Reverchon 's botan- 

 ical work is sufficient to insure his name a perma- 

 nent place in the literature of the botany of Texas 

 and the great southwest. Duplicates of his col- 

 lections occur in many of the leading herbaria of 

 the world. 



Dr. Wm. L. Bray, Syracuse University 

 (formerly professor of botany, State Univer- 

 sity of Texas) : 



... In the ease of Reverchon, however, this 

 naturalist instinct was, perhaps, of a more cosmo- 

 politan character. He and his two brothers had 

 been collectors over very wide areas. He was in a 

 position to give discerning judgments as to plants 

 and plant conditions in a territory toward which 

 the eyes of people in both America and Europe 

 ^vere turned. A precursor of our modern ecolog- 

 ical plant geographer, his was a notable life which 

 had relation to the unworked field, on the one hand, 

 and the working botanical centers, on the other. 

 We have few such intermediaries nowadays, un- 

 fortunately. 



Dr. John M. Coulter, University of Chicago : 



I have your letter in reference to naming one 

 of your parks ' ' Reverchon Park. ' ' 



It seems to me that nothing could be more ap- 

 propriate, for to the botanists of the country the 

 name of Reverchon has always been identified with 

 our early knowledge of the flora of Texas. It 

 seems to me that it would be regarded by the bo- 

 tanical fraternity in general as a very happy 

 method of remembering a botanist whom Texas 

 should not forget. 



Dr. Charles S. Sargent, Arnold Arboretum, 

 Jamaica Plain, Mass. : 



No one did more than Reverchon in exploring 

 the flora of Texas. He made it possible for 



