THE TOKYO BOTANICAL GARDEN. 



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Fig. 41. The Botanical Institute Building, Tokyo Botanical Garden. 



a photograph by the author. 



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requires that students give most of their time to the major subject 

 and those who specialize in botany come to look upon the botanical 

 garden as almost home to them. 



The botanical garden, as an organization, is a part of the 

 " Botanical Institute of the College of Science." The director of 

 the garden is the head of the department of botany, Professor J. 

 Matsumura.* Students of botany go into the garden every time 

 they go to the laboratory, for the institute building is well within 

 the garden. Even the narrow specialist who spends his time look- 

 ing down a microscope tttbe must see something of the garden 

 and thus gain a larger view of botany in general. 



If the reader should imagine that the laboratory building is 

 strictly modern with hardwood floors, steam heat, high ceilings 

 and fine equipment generally, he would be much mistaken. When 

 a Japanese from one of the smaller cities is asked to name the best 

 building in his town he says " the school building." So, I doubt 

 not, the average Japanese would think the botanical institute 

 btiilding a very fine one, but it does not compare favorably with 

 ordinary college and university buildings in America. It is 

 warmed by stoves — I had almost said heated, but that would be 



* The writer is under great obligation to Professor Matsumura for in- 

 formation about the garden and for a number of the photographs repro- 

 duced as illustrations in this article. 



