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5. The Botanical Garden of the Michigan Agricultural College 
was begun in 1877. There are now about three acres under high 
cultivation, exclusive of the aboretum and decorative grounds, 
which together cover several acres. There are several small 
greenhouses, an herbarium of about 60,000 specimens, a good 
botanical library and extensive, well-equipped laboratories. 
6. The University of California, at Berkeley, has a botanical 
garden of several acres, established some years ago, in which a 
large number of plants are grown. It furnishes a valuable adjunct 
to the work of the botanical department, which has well-ap- 
pointed laboratories, a working library and a large herbarium. 
7. The University of Pennsylvania has recently established 4 
garden of about three acres in the immediate vicinity of its build- 
ing, in Philadelphia, and has many species under cultivation. The 
extensive and well-appointed laboratories of its School of Biology, 
good library facilities and a small herbarium afford capital oppor- 
tunity for research, especially in physiology and morphology. 
8. Smith College, at Northampton, Mass., has also recently 
established a botanical garden, on the campus. 
9. The Buffalo Botanical Garden, in South Park, Buffalo, N. Ya 
was commenced in 1893, and has since made rapid and encourag- 
ing progress. A small range of greenhouses has been built, and 
others are planned. A beginning has been made in accumula- 
ting a library and herbarium, and much permanent planting has 
been accomplished. 
10. The New York Botanical Garden. The establishment of 
the New York Botanical Garden was authorized by the Legisla- 
ture in 1891, and the enabling act was amended in 1894. The 
enterprise was inaugurated and the legislation procured by a com- 
mittee of the Torrey Botanical Club, appointed in 1889. The Act 
of Incorporation provided that when the corporation created 
should have raised or secured by subscription a sum not less than 
$250,000 the Commissioners of Public Parks were authorized to 
set apart and appropriate a portion of one of the public parks, not 
exceeding 250 acres, and the Board of Estimate and Apportion- 
ment was authorized to issue bonds, aggregating the sum of $500," 
000, for the construction and equipment, within the grounds, of < 
the necessary buildings. The subscription of $250,000 required — 
