NOTES 
THE OPENING OF THE HEW BOTANICAL DEPART- 
MENT AT THE GLASGOW UNIVERSITY.— On June 13, 1901, 
as a part of the celebrations on the ninth Jubilee of the University 
of Glasgow, the new Botanical Department was formally opened by 
Sir Joseph Hooker. The building has been erected after the design 
of Mr. J. O. Scott and Mr. J. Burnet, and has cost over £17,000. 
It includes a lecture-room to hold 250, elementary laboratory to 
seat 100, advanced laboratory, museum, herbarium, private rooms, 
dark rooms, &c. 
Principal Story, in a speech acknowledging the benefactions from 
which, the cost of the building had been met, referred to the hereditary 
connexion of Sir Joseph Plooker with Glasgow, his father having 
been for twenty years the Professor of Botany in that University, of 
which he himself is a graduate. 
Sir Joseph Hooker’s opening address was as follows: — 
Ladies and Gentlemen, 
My friend Professor Bower has done me the honour of asking 
me to perform the function of declaring these buildings open, and 
to preface it by giving my earliest recollections of the botanical 
teacher and his teaching in this University. To do this I must ask 
you to imagine yourselves carried back to the first quarter of the last 
century, a time so long gone by, that what I have to relate must be 
regarded rather as impressions retained than memories recalled. 
My father was then the Professor of Botany, and to understand 
his position at the commencement of his career as such, I must give 
you an outline of his previous life as a botanist. He had not been 
educated for the medical, or indeed for any other learned profession. 
Having inherited ample means, and having been from childhood 
devoted to the study and collection of objects of natural history, he 
[Annals of Botany, Vol. XV. No. LIX. September, 1901.] 
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