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4. To provide fire-proof quarters for the invaluable herbarium of the 
late Dr. George Engelmann, and to immediately mount it in the proper 
manner, so as to insure its preservation and availability for scientific 
use. Also, to provide for and add to the general herbarium (based on 
that of Bernhardi) now at the Garden, with the special object of ulti- 
mately making it complete in good representatives of American plants. 
5. To arrange, bind, and index the books and pamphlets at the Gar- 
den. Also, to provide more ample but equally safe accommodations for 
the library, to bring it up to date as rapidly as possible, to enter sub- 
scriptions for periodical publications, and to keep it abreast of the times, 
and in the most useful form, by the purchase of important publications 
as they shall appear, and by the proper indexing of periodicals and 
pamphlets. . 
6. To secure a botanical museum, containing material needed for 
study or calculated to advance general or special knowledge of botany. 
7. To direct the main energy of research for the present toward as- 
sisting in the completion of asystematic account of the flowering plants 
of North America, by the publication of monographs of different Orders 
and Genera, illustrated when this may seem desirable; and to specially 
cultivate representatives of such groups for purposes of study. 
8. To gradually acquire and utilize facilities for research in vegetable 
histology and physiology, the diseases and injuries of plants, and other 
branches of botany and horticulture, as special reason for developing one 
or the other may appear 
9. To make the facilities of the Garden useful in botanical and horti- 
cultural instruction, as they increase and opportunity for such work 
appears: meantime, in all feasible ways, to attract to the School of 
Botany students of promise, and to provide for their instruction and the 
best use of their time as investigators. 
10. To take steps looking to the early appointment of six “ garden 
pupils,’? — youths with at least an elementary English education, who 
shall be regarded as apprentices in the Garden, working under the direc- 
tion of the head gardener and foremen, and shall hold scholarships 
yielding $300.00 per year each, together with free lodging near or in the 
Garden, and free tuition in the School of Botany, and who, after having 
worked for six or more years (as shall ultimately prove best) in the 
different departments of the Garden, and proved proficient in its practical 
work, may be admitted to examination for a certificate of proficiency in 
the theory and practice of gardening. 
11. To have in mind, in appointing associates for the Director, their 
special aptitude in some one of the branches indicated above, so that 
with each appointment the efficiency of the institution for instruction and 
original work may be broadened and increased. 
On assuming control of the Garden, the Board soon saw 
that the large amount of unimproved real estate which fell 
to their care, and which was unproductive and at the same 
