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...expense of the recent case of Monthly versus CRIMSON. Professor A. B. Hart describes the new treaty of reciprocity between Harvard and some Western colleges. A very enthusiastic review is given of "The Mediaeval Mind" by H. O. Taylor '78. From the Bulletin of the Royal Gardens at Kew is reprinted an English view of the Arnold Arboretum in which high praise is given the Arboretum and Professor Sargent. An admirably lucid account is given of the present relations between Harvard and the city of Cambridge, which every Harvard man should read. Another number might well contain an article describing...
...Kew, J R, 1134 Mass...
...Candolle collection there is a very large number of types of Mexican and South American species discovered by the Spanish explorers. He also examined types in the Michaux collection at the Jardin des Plantes in Paris, in the British Museum of Natural History in London, and at the Kew Gardens, also in the vicinity or London. At the Kew Gardens, there is the largest collection in the world of both dry and live plants...
...many plants are crowded into so small a space, with no chance of properly displaying them, but the new foreman, Mr. Cameron, has shown a great deal of skill in arranging them. He, as well as his first assistant, Mr. Barker. was trained at the royal gardens at Kew, near London. They have given prominence in the arrangement of the plants to those which are likely to be of special interest to visitors who are fond of tropical and subtropical foliage. The experiment of opening the greenhouses on Sundays as well as week days, to visitors, has been successful...
...several new points in its arrangements that will undoubtedly be of great value for future work. A continuous photographic registration of changes in the electricity of the atmosphere has never previously been attempted in this country, and has only twice ever been attempted elsewhere; once at Kew, under Sir William Thompson and Balfour Stewart, and a year ago or so, at Paris, by Mascart, director of the bureau...