. Contributions from the Botanical Laboratory, vol. 7. Botany; Botany. 8 ated a wild botanical garden and a cultivated one. In the Jardim Botanico there is a laboratory and museum build- ing at one side of tlic garden where the botanical specimens are lioused and a lierbarium. The ^luseum Xacional, wliicli occupies the old imperial palace, is located in a large park ])lanted with many interesting tropical trees. Several rooms are de- voted to botany. Sala Freire Allemao contains a collection of the trunks, sam- roUes, of Paris. Sala Conceiciao Vel- lozo has alcoholic specimens, paintings of wa
. Contributions from the Botanical Laboratory, vol. 7. Botany; Botany. 8 ated a wild botanical garden and a cultivated one. In the Jardim Botanico there is a laboratory and museum build- ing at one side of tlic garden where the botanical specimens are lioused and a lierbarium. The ^luseum Xacional, wliicli occupies the old imperial palace, is located in a large park ])lanted with many interesting tropical trees. Several rooms are de- voted to botany. Sala Freire Allemao contains a collection of the trunks, sam- roUes, of Paris. Sala Conceiciao Vel- lozo has alcoholic specimens, paintings of water lilies, jack fruit and Victoria regia. The i)rivatc gardens of the wealthy Brazilians and the city i)arks also present opportunities for the inves- tigation of exotic cultivated ])lants. Escola Superior de Agricultura c Vet- erinaria de Estado ^linas (Jeracs at Vicosa is i)resided over ])y an American scientist, P. 11. Roll's, formerly of the Florida Agricultural p]xperiment Sta-. JARDIM BOTANICO, RIO J)E JANEIRO, BRAZIL With the Cokcovado in the backckound, palms ox hill slopes and siiians of Azalea (liJiododoidroii) indica i\ the koijeckound, .Iiiv 15, VX1~. pies of rubber, fruits and mounted her- barium specimens with three oil paint- ings ])y Santos on the walls representing Amazonia, or Ilylaea, Campos and Araucaria forest. Sala Martins Botanico is devoted to herbarium specimens ar- ranged in cases according to natural families, to pictures of vegetation, to wood samples, to alcoholic fruits and to phytogeographic maps. There are oil paintings of Martins, Jacques nu])er, Barbosa Rodrigues, Xicolao ]\Ioreira, and models of flowers bv D'Emile T^ev- tion. It is a center for the scientific studv of agriculture ami horticulture. The ''priest's room" has been set aside for visiting botanists. Estacao Biologica do Alto da Serra is situated on a hillside in the midst of a dense troi)ical forest. Here is a building used in i)art as residence for the care- taker and in ])ar
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