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Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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ng the desertsof Texas, northern Chihuahua and Sonora inMexico, Nev/ Mexico, Arizona, and California.The site finally agreed upon was in the vicinity of Tucson, in southern Arizona. Writing inthe Popular Science Monthly for February, Prof.Francis E. Lloyd, of Columbia University, givesit as his personal opinion, after spending thegreater part of the past summer at the DesertBotanical Laboratory, that the action of the com-mittee was well advised and is fully justified.Professor Lloyd takes occasion to give an accountof the laboratory and its surroundings from hisown point of view. The city of Tucson, with a population of 10,-000, is situated in the valley of Santa Cruz, atan elevation of 2,390 feet above sea-level. Theclimate is hot, though dry and bracing. Thelaboratory itself, constructed of volcanic Iock,is situated on the northerly face of one of theTucson mountains, about two miles from thecity. It is not at all unusual for the mercury 364 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY RE^IEIV OF REVIEWS.
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LOOKING NORTH FROM THE DESERT LABORATORY. to register 100° to_105° F., but there is so littlediscomfort attendant on the heat that tlie ther-mometer is usually disregarded. The humidityon many occasions during six weeks of July andAugust of 1904 was as low as 7 per cent. Theonly feature of discomfort described by Profess-or Lloyd is the intense illumination, which, forsome persons, requires dark glasses ; but on thevolcanic hills the dark color of the groundaffords relief. The laboratory is well equipped for its pur-poses, and has an abundant water-supply. Re-garding the considerations which led to theplanting of the laboratory in this particularregion. Professor Lloyd says : Aside from the conditious for study offered by thedesert laboratory as such, the matter with which the.student is especially concerned is the plant life. Inseeking for the right place to plant a laboratory for thestudy of desert vegetation, it is obvious that some prac-tical conception of what such a vegetation

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