On February 11, 1899, Garland atttended in New York a meeting of the newly organized National Instituteof Arts and Letters, an offshoot of the American Society of Science, devoted to the allied arts.

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We don't like polymaths any more. Perhaps it's because even being a monomath is too difficult now; even specialists specialise only in a small subset of their specialty, and learning is an either/or business.

Erysimum cheiranthoides and Sinapis nigra grow in cornfields here as everywhere else; although some writer in the 'Phytologist' says it, S. nigra, is not a field plant but a waysider.