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Title: The Popular science monthly
Year: 1912 (1910s)
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Subjects: Science Technology
Publisher: (New York, Popular Science Pub. Co., etc.)
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no cycads in New Zealand. Australia is a large country with an area almost exactly equal tothat of the United States, but with a population scarcely equal to thatof Illinois. The states are few, but large, most of them being largerthan Texas. They are loosely federated, but the tendency is towardcloser federation. The government of the various states owns the rail-ways and other public commodities, and the political situation resemblesthat in New Zealand. The harbor at Sydney is the finest in the world. It could accom-modate all the navies of all nations, and still have room enough for allthe liners of the Atlantic to unload at once. While such practicalfeatures dominate in a new country, it must not be forgotten thatSydney, until very recently, had the largest pipe organ in the world,and that even now,* on account of its perfect position, the organ isprobably the most effective in the world. The organist is a regularofficer of the city, and gives free recitals every Sunday afternoon.
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Q •<►J HN & D«OE-lO« <)H p OCM-<1 O M 4 ROUND-THE-WORLD BOTANICAL EXCURSION 425 Other things might he mentioned to show that in the strenuous ma-terial development, the humanities have not been forgotten. Naturally, as soon as I arrived in Sydney, I went to ProfessorMaiden, the director of the Botanic Gardens, well known to botanistsby his work on Eucalyptus, the most characteristic of all Australiantrees. I had expected to get from him some information and advice,but I was entirely unprepared for the splendid hospitality and gen-erous assistance which I received and am still receiving, for he not onlygave me valuable material from the garden and sent a competent col-lector to accompany me during my trips in the vicinity, but he hashad the histologist of the gardens prepare some of my material forfuture use. In many ways, the gardens at Sydney surpass any I had ever seen,and I have seen the gardens at Kew and Berlin. Palms from Mexico,Chili, the West Indies, the Sou

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