THE
work of the Arnold Arboretum is of sufficient national importance to justify its friends in appealing to all Americans who care for trees, forests, and gardens, in whatever part of the United States they may reside, in behalf of a larger endowment for that institution.
A LOSS
of 7,642 human lives is the record of the twentythree great shipwrecks of the nineteenth century, and this is but a small fraction of the total mortality through accident at sea.