of the local flora as well^as complete and accurate lists and cata- 

 logues, and monographs of the more di£5cult groiips. At the close 

 of the Survey the Herbariiim will be presented to the University. 

 And during the progress of the Survey it will be accessible to 

 all persons, prepared to use it, who wish to study the plants 

 of Nebraska or any group of them. 



In addition to the reports, catalogues of local floras and mono- 

 graphs of particular groups, principally of the lower plants, will 

 be published. Several such monographs are now in preparation, 

 and more are contemplated. These will make possible a more 

 thorough acquaintance with the plant life of the state by the pub- 

 lic generally, and, it is hoped, enable the public schools of the 

 state to do much which at present they cannot do for lack of the 

 numerous and expensive books which such work requires. But 

 the Seminar will aim to make the work of the Survey scientific 

 rather than popular. 



While the Survey is essentially a private undertaking, con- 

 ducted by a private organization and carried on with private 

 means, the members of the Seminar recognize that their connec- 

 tion with the State University, most of them being graduate stu- 

 dents at that institution, pats them under obligation to the public. 

 They will endeavor, therefore, to give such practical direction to 

 the Survey as will be consistent with a purely scientific aim. The 

 grasses of the state, the trees and woody plants, injurious and 

 beneficial fungi and their observed effects, and other matters of 

 interest to Agriculturist and Horticulturist, will receive special 

 notice. But the bulletins of the Agricultural Experiment Sta- 

 tion are the place for the most of such work, especially the popu- 

 lar side of it. The Survey must often treat them on an equality 

 with matters of little economic or purely scientific importance. 



With no intention of being unduly radical, the Seminar will 

 endeavor to have the publications of the Survey fully represent 

 the most recent development of Botany in all directions. The 

 Survey is intended for scientific purposes, and its publications 

 for scientific eyes, primarily. Furthermore the Seminar cannot 



