252 Post Graduate Courses in Botany. 
HONOURS AND POST-GRADUATE COURSES IN BOTANY 
AT THE UNIVERSITY OF LONDON. 
ONSIDERABLE progress has been made with the three-year 
programme of lectures drawn up last year, since the publi¬ 
cation in this Journal (Vol. II., p. 212, November, 1903) of a note 
on the scheme. 
After the conclusion this time last year of Mr. A. D. Hall’s 
admirable course on “ The Relation of the Plant to the Soil in which 
it grows,” Dr. Scott’s course in the second term at University 
College, on “ The Lycopsida,” attracted large audiences of fifty or 
sixty. In the summer term Professor Green’s course at Chelsea on 
“The Metabolic Processes of Plants” was also well attended. 
During the present term the Director of Kew Gardens has 
given a course of four lectures at Chelsea on “ The Problems of 
Modern Botany,” dealing mainly with questions connected with the 
activity of chlorophyll. In the latter half of the term, Mr. W. G. 
Freeman, of the Imperial Institute has delivered an attractive 
course of six lectures on “ Current Investigations in Economic 
Botany ” also at Chelsea. 
Next term Mr. V. H. Blackman will lecture at University 
College on “The Origin of the Ascomycetes ” beginning on 
Wednesday, January 18th, at 5 p.m„ while in the summer term 
courses will be delivered by Dr. F. F. Blackman, of Cambridge, on 
“ The C0 2 -economy of Plants ” and by Dr. A. B. Rendle, of the 
British Museum, on “ Tubiflorae.” The lectures are all free. 
R. MADLEY, PRINTER, 151 , WHITFIELD STREET, LONDON, W. 
