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leges there is also a small sum available each year for traveling fellow- 
ships. This money is usually expended in such a way as to enable a 
promising student to continue his studies in Europe, under the direction 
of a master in the line of study selected by him. Probably, as the 
funds of the Board increase, the expenditure of a very few thousand 
dollars annually, in small grants of two or three hundred dollars each, 
may make it possible for investigators with partly completed work to 
come to the Garden and here complete their work during their summer 
vacation, while the endowment of a number of research fellowships, 
yielding perhaps $1,000.00 per year, may make it possible for such men 
to come to the Garden for an entire year for similar work. These three 
possibilities, while they are probably located far in the future, are worthy 
of careful thought, so that when the possibility of action comes they 
may be judiciously acted upon. 
Any investigation promoted in this way is most desirable, and is, as I 
interpret them, strictly within the purposes of the founder of the Gar- 
den, but it must not be overlooked that while such provisions will con- 
tribute to the advancement of botany, they do it indirectly, so far as the 
Garden is concerned, by enabling others to utilize what the Garden has 
acquired for such work. If the Garden itself is to become known as a 
center of investigation, it will be absolutely necessary to provide for the 
performance of a considerable amount of such investigation: by the 
regular Garden staff, and this leads me to believe that as the institution 
develops it will not only be desirable but necessary to appoint, one after 
the other, young men of extreme promise who wish for a position which 
will enable them to do research work, and who, given this opportunity, 
will ultimately become leaders in their specialties. To secure such men, 
who can be appointed at a low salary, say of $1,000.00 to $1,500.00 each, 
it will be necessary to promise them that, if successful, their salaries 
will increase up to a suitable living salary, which in all probability will 
be dictated by the salaries usually paid by the universities of the country, 
since an investigator, as well as a teacher, must secure a living if he is 
to devote his time to investigation. I hope to live to see the income of 
the Garden so ample that it shall claim among its regular employees men 
recognized as the equal of any in the country, if not in the world, in 
horticulture, vegetable physiology, morphology, paleo-botany, phanero- 
gams, pteridophytes, bryophytes, fungi, algae and lichens.* ; 
Ultimately it is very possible that the money available for research 
work will admit of the employment in the same manner of an ento- 
mologist, and there is a possibility that in coming generations other 
branches of zoology may be represented, either directly under the Shaw 
* Under the heading of ‘‘ Botanical Opportunity,’’ in an address de- 
livered before the Botanical Society of America, in August, 1896, and 
printed in Science of September 18, 1896, p. 367, and the Botanical 
Gazette of September 1896, p. 193, I have further analyzed this question 
of equipment and its utilization, as concerning institutions like the 
Garden. 
