The Metaspermae of the Minnesota Valley, Vol. 1

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Excerpt from The Metaspermae of the Minnesota Valley, Vol. 1: A List of the Higher Seed-Producing Plants Indigenous to the Drainage-Basin of the Minnesota River, Reports of the Survey, Botanical SeriesThe Geological and N atural History Survey of Minnesota is established by virtue of an act of the state legislature, ap proved March 1, 1872. This act is entitled An Act to provide for a Geological and Natural History Survey of the State, and to entrust the same'to the University of Minnesota. Under the law, therefore, organising the survey, the Regents of the Uni versitylbecame its directors and have at different times ap pointed officers to prosecute the different lines of scientific work. The order of carrying on the work is prescribed in the law establishing it. In accordance with such prescription the geological work has been in progress for twenty years, the zoological work for four years, the botanical for two years, and the topographical for one year. Originally the separation of these four lines of work was not formally insisted upon by the Board of Regents and certain botanical and zoological brochures have up to this time appeared from the office of the State Geologist. More recently, however, contingencies arose that induced the Board of Regents so to classify the work of the survey that each department should be under the charge of a specialist. Who might be expected to labor toward the ends defined in the organic law, with greater directness than under the unperfected arrangement. The accompanying work, then, is a report of the botanical division of the survey, and the first volume of the botanical series. It is transmitted in the cus tomary manner.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.