The Botanical Museum.

The more recent additions to the Ware collection of Blaschka glass flowers are now in place in the cases, and serve to indicate even more fully than the previous consignments, the range of artistic skill possessed by the Blaschkas. In the management of color the artists have surmounted difficulties which might have been regarded as insuperable, but in all instances the various tints, hues and shades are perfect copies of the originals, and to this is added the representation of texture.

Work is now progressing on the cases in which are to be stored the large collections of economic specimens, and it is not unlikely that these will be completed before the beginning of the next college year. Among the most important of the recent acquisitions is the case containing the more interesting cryptogamia. This has been arranged in part and proves attractive to all visitors. A few weeks ago a graduate of the University, who resides in one of our eastern cities, presented to the Botanical Department for present use, the very generous sum of ten thousand dollars. Of this amount, one quarter will be used by the Herbarium for the completion of its series of scientific publications, one quarter by the Botanic Garden, and the remaining half by the Botanical Museum in the completion of some of the cases which have been so much needed.