Ther Weix JUNE 13, 1923 Wea 





States to Get Pieces 

 . of Washington Elm 



Historic Washingtpn El/n is to 

 be cut down and a piece of it sent 

 to every state in the Union, tlie 

 District of Columbia and Alaska. 

 This was decided upon last even- 

 ing at a meeting of tlie Cam- 

 ibridge park commissioners with 

 Mayor Edward W, Quinn. One 





side of each piece of wood sent 

 out will bear the seal of the city 

 of Cambridge and the other side 

 an appropriate inscription. The 

 tree, officially pronounced dead by 

 a tree scientist, is now said to be 

 a menace. 



^ FOSSIL PLANT FO.XTND / 



May Have Been the Prehistoric Ancestor 

 of the Maize 



tSelby MaiweH In Chlcaeo Tribune] 

 The science ot botany may lie revolu- 

 tionized by the discovery ot the stem of 

 a p!ant no larger than the base of a corn 

 .stalk. The new growth lived on tho earth 

 in the ago of coal, and Its remains were 

 found embedded in a lump of Illinois lime- 

 stone by Professor A. C. Noe of the Uni- 

 versity of Chicago. 



