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since no two students would be likely to select the same 
subject. 
Although the small number of students enrolled in the 
undergraduate department prevents and is likely to prevent 
the School of Botany from giving instruction to any large 
number of undergraduate pupils, certain of the courses are 
taken by a relatively large number. Indeed, for those 
courses which students have thus far shown a disposition 
to elect, the laboratories and lecture room of the School of 
Botany are utilized to their fullest capacity. It is a matter 
of regret, from a botanical point of view, that few students 
elect the more technical of the courses which are offered, 
their purpose in most instances being merely the acquisi- 
tion of such knowledge of botany as forms part of a gen- 
eral system of culture. As the number of undergraduate 
students in the University increases, however, it is hoped 
that more use will be made by them of the facilities afforded 
by the School of Botany and the closely affiliated Botanical 
Garden. 
As was stated in the inaugural address on the opening of 
the School of Botany,* the furtherance of investigation is 
held to be no less proper to a department than the giving 
of direct instruction; and the policy of furnishing to in- 
structors as well as pupils all procurable aids to the per- 
formance of such work, adopted from the start f and never 
deviated from, has rendered possible the completion of 
several pieces of work, the larger of which have been made 
the subjects of papers published either as ‘‘ Contributions 
from the Shaw School of Botany’’ or otherwise. The 
principal of these publications are noted elsewhere in the 
present volume. That no papers have been issued from 
the School of Botany during the past few years is due 
in part to the publication of my own papers in the 
Reports of the Garden, which now claims the greater part 
of my time, and in part to the increased amount of teach- 
* First Report, 79. + First Report, 100. 
