GuilHenrde Vriese Protrepticus ad commilitones, Athenaei Illustris Amstelodemensis alumnos, quo scholas botanicas, die Vante idus Octobres, MDCCCXLI, publice instauravit . subjects, for affording instruction inthe same, for the prosecution and exhibitionof ornamental and decorative horticultureand gardening, and for the entertainment,recreation and instruction of the people. By the same act the Board of Commis-sioners of the Department of Public Parkswere authorized to set aside two hundredand fifty acres of Bronx Park, and erectsuit-able museum and other buildings at a cost bular masses produ
GuilHenrde Vriese Protrepticus ad commilitones, Athenaei Illustris Amstelodemensis alumnos, quo scholas botanicas, die Vante idus Octobres, MDCCCXLI, publice instauravit . subjects, for affording instruction inthe same, for the prosecution and exhibitionof ornamental and decorative horticultureand gardening, and for the entertainment,recreation and instruction of the people. By the same act the Board of Commis-sioners of the Department of Public Parkswere authorized to set aside two hundredand fifty acres of Bronx Park, and erectsuit-able museum and other buildings at a cost bular masses produced by hypochlorite of soda uponthe protoplasm of dead cells. Such formations andtheir distinction from proteosomes were described byWoods in Science, April, 1899. * Written by the request of the Editor of also article on same subject by author in theBopular Science Monthly for June, 1900. 936 JSGIENCE. [N. S. Vol. XI. No. 285. of not more than five hundred thousanddollars on condition that the corporationshould raise the sum of two hundred and which was to carry out the purposes forwhich it came into existence. The subscription of the $250,000 required. fifty thousand dollars within seven the completion of the buildings thesewere to be handed over to the corporation by the Act was completed, and the landwas set aside in 1895. The active work of organization of the JUNE 15, 1900.] SCIENCE. 937 Garden was begun in 1896, and Dr. N. was elected Director-in-chief in thatyear. The perfecting of the plans for thebuildings, roads, driveways, walks and plan-tation occupied the greater part of the at-tention of the management during this yearand the next. The actual erection of themost important of these structures, the mu-seum building, was begun in the Spring of1898, ground having been broken for it latein 1897, and it was handed over to theboard of managers of the Garden in March,1900. During this constructive period manyadditions were made to the st
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