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Burning of the Botanical Museum and Laboratory of the Michigan Agricultural College. On the night of March 23d, our Botanical Laboratory and Museum was destroyed by fire.
We were able to carry out and preserve all the books, charts and
apparatus, including the mounted portion of the herbarium. The
Wheeler herbarium, recently purchased, containing over seven
thousand species, including the most complete collection of Michigan plants ever brought together, was lost, together with a part
of the electrotypes to illustrate my second volume on grasses.
If life and health are spared, we shall have, in a few years, a
much better building and a finer museum. For the present, very
good accommodations for the botanical department are furnished
in a part of the new Agricultural Laboratory recently completed.
W. J. BEAL.