Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. . lands, lonely in a wideexpanse of water, while other islands, with onlya limited number of well known species, tell ofnew upheavals within modern times. It is in theselines chieflythat botany hasadvanced dur-ing the cen-tury. Herbari-ums for dry andbotanic gar-dens for living plants are essential
Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. . lands, lonely in a wideexpanse of water, while other islands, with onlya limited number of well known species, tell ofnew upheavals within modern times. It is in theselines chieflythat botany hasadvanced dur-ing the cen-tury. Herbari-ums for dry andbotanic gar-dens for living plants are essential. The latter are not as necessary to thestudy as formerly, as the facilities for travel bring the votaries of the scienceto distant places in a short time. Nature furnishes the living material forstudy at a less outlay of time and money than in the old way of growing theplants for the purpose. Few modern botanic gardens have the fame of thoseof the past. It is the great Herbarium of Kew, rather than the living plants,that makes that famous spot the great school for botany to-day. In our owncountry, the Herbariums of Cambridge, Mass.; Columbia College, New York ;the National at Washington; and that of the Academy of Natural Sciencesof Philadelphia, are the most famous in America. Thomas
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