constant a urtso of vu'dsm*r«.a©n«nt '-'ham anyone oo.os :ln— 
Ullsllcma Harvard. It is ifcperntlw tiro, prompt stops 
. 
b© taken to «•«» n building: eppropria t« for tftftil laboratories,, 
mid alnon the Zoological ItetpnTtrmnt has similar meeds pm a could 
share In the lias of era© apparatus nnd of a cor«-*tm large lecture 
*©<», it la aNf’&eetytf that it would he desirable that the building 
bo planned by the two Dep^rtr-cnto. tha laboratory ot T^itonoisy 
(or Clawalflent: ion) of the flowering plants* (System tie Botany under 
§^po£«e»or Foror-ld) in well equipped "t tha feay Herbarium and ®3tb 
the relief, of space gt tha Museum aystemti© work cn tha oyyptoimma' 
would hmm abunonnt facilities in connection with the Cryptogam it* ■ 
Herbarium, »t» thet thjise two field© do not re .quire cocuil deration 
In t;K , planning of ■■ tkv-v buiidinr*. 
Mr. W. Caneren Forbas, Chairman of the Committee 
on Zoology, has been consulted on the plan of having © building 
for Joint use by the Zoology md Botany Department©. Be raskoe 
the following suggest ion •••hioh seems to us most timely: 
"It has occurred to members of our Coramittee that 
such a building might very properly become the Roosevelt Memorial 
■* 
at Harvard, and that the friends of Roosevelt desiring to form a 
Roosevelt Memorial might give this building for the joint uses 
of the ye Departments. Roosevelt* a interest in Zoology . r-s one 
of hie outstanding characteristics and the plan seems in every 
’■try r>.-.propriatc." 
