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THE AMERICAN BOTANIST 



stances intimately connected with the high cost of hving. we 

 perceive that the garden is by no means to be disdained as a 

 source of amusement and instruction. 



The Journal of Econoinic Botany, three vokuiies of which 

 have been issued by Pomona College, Claremont, California, is 

 no more, having suspended publication with the concluding 

 number of the third volume. Its demise illustrates the well 

 known adage that every institution is the shadow of a single 

 individual. Begun by C. F. Baker, a scientist well informed on 

 tropical botany, it continued to thrive until his removal to the 

 University of the Philippines left the magazine without a 

 responsible head and then the inevitable happened. The mag- 

 azine was the only publication of its kind devoted to the eco- 

 nomic botany of the tropics and sub-tropics and thus filled a 

 want that no other publication could. It is reported that later 

 the magazine will be revived under different management. \Yt 

 trust that this report is not unfounded. 



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With much regret we announce the death of Dr. Charles 

 Edwin Bessey, head of the department of botany in the Uni- 

 versity of Nebraska, author of numerous books and articles on 

 botany and kindred subjects and member of many scientific 

 societies. His death occurred at Lincoln, Nebraska, February 

 25, 1915, in the seventieth year of his age. Dr. Bessey became 

 interested in botany long* before it assumed its present severely 

 technical aspect and through all the changes tO' which it has 

 been subject, retained a lively interest in the popular and 

 pleasure-giving side of the subject. At the same time he kept 

 abreast of the advances in his chosen field, as his position in a 

 great university shows. His scholarly criticisms of new phases 

 of botany were always received with respect by his fellow 

 scientists. Dr. Bessey was especially friendly toward beginning 



