GuilHenrde Vriese Protrepticus ad commilitones, Athenaei Illustris Amstelodemensis alumnos, quo scholas botanicas, die Vante idus Octobres, MDCCCXLI, publice instauravit . ing the herbarium of Columbia University, which is depositedhere in accordance with the agreement between the two collection is especially rich in fungi, embracing the collections ofEllis and other eminent mycologists. A large amount of material of 174 roVULAR 8CIENCE MONTELY. great historic value in connection with the work of Dr. John Torreyand the earlier holanical development of America is included. Acce
GuilHenrde Vriese Protrepticus ad commilitones, Athenaei Illustris Amstelodemensis alumnos, quo scholas botanicas, die Vante idus Octobres, MDCCCXLI, publice instauravit . ing the herbarium of Columbia University, which is depositedhere in accordance with the agreement between the two collection is especially rich in fungi, embracing the collections ofEllis and other eminent mycologists. A large amount of material of 174 roVULAR 8CIENCE MONTELY. great historic value in connection with the work of Dr. John Torreyand the earlier holanical development of America is included. Acces-sions are being made to the herbarium at the rate of iifty to a hundredthousand specimens annually. Tbe laboratories consist of a series of rooms facing northward andwcstward, with special facilities for taxonomic, embryological andmorphological investigations. Physiological and photographic dark-rooms, the experiment room for living plants and chemical laboratoriesoffer especially ample opportunities for the record and developmentof practically all phases of plant physiology. The laboratories, libraryand herbarium are open to .the graduate students from Columbia. In the , in addition to those from other institutions of learning whomay register directly at the Garden. The latter, in return, have theprivileges of students at Columbia University. A weekly convention of all of the workers in botany in New YorkCity is held in the museum, at which the results of recent researchesare given or an address is made by an invited speaker from out ofthe city. The area of the Garden presents a very irregular topography, com-prising, as it does, a half mile of the valley of the Bronx River, lowmarshes and swamps, artificial lakes, open glades, with heavy peatysoil, upland plains with gravelly sandy soil, granite ridges, and aboutseventy acres of natural forest. About forty acres of this forest con-sist of a dense grove of hemlocks, which has never been seriously THE NEW YO
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