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Another student is carrying on experiments concerning the fungi which attack humans, known as athlete's foot and still another is working on a growth which attacks tomatoes. Every man under Professor Weston is carrying on some sort of research work. More of the new men this year in his department are from Harvard College...
Inquiries into the sex life of fungi is the subject of an experiment being carried on by Ralph Emerson 1G.S. under the supervision of William II. Weston, Jr., professor of Botany in the Cryptogamic Botany laboratory. This is the first time which inquiries of such a sort have been made. Already Emerson has crossed algae plants to form new plants, revealing what has been a missing link in evolution...
...Agnes Weston, famed British temperance worker and self-styled "Sailor's Friend," died some ten years ago, aged...
...lectures in Botany 2 "make" the course. Professor Weston is a person with that rare gift of being able to make the driest portions of a subject sparkle with interest. Not that the subject matter is uninteresting per so, but Professor Weston's wide experience and boundless enthusiasm do much to make the material especially presentable, even to the most mediocre student...
...emphasis in the course is laid on the algae and fungi, because they are Professor Weston's special field, but the Bryophytes and Pteridophytes also receive due attention, thus covering the whole field of Cryptogamic Botany, including an historical introduction. The lab work is correlated to the lectures, proportionate amounts of time being spent on each topic...