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botanical work. Not until the present incomplete building is ex- 
tended, however, and the research rooms which are planned for 
are thus made available, can we hope to offer to outside investi- 
gators, not to mention our present staff, satisfactory facilities for 
this work. 
It is further hoped that, after more room is provided, the near 
future will see some provision made for fellowships, which will 
thus enable us to offer to promising students and investigators fa- 
cilities for carrying on botanical researches at the Garden. By the 
creation of such fellowships, as well as of more assistantships, in 
which the incumbent would give to the actual work of assisting 
only a portion of his time, while carrying on botanical investiga- 
tions of his own, the Garden would secure at a nominal cost a very 
high grade of assistance, while at the same time helping materially 
to advance our knowledge of plants. 
Another matter in connection with the encouragement of this 
advanced work at the Garden must be solved sooner or later; 
namely, the question of credit for such work in degree-giving 
institutions of higher learning. Most young graduates, as well as 
students of college rank, rightly look to the end of securing higher 
degrees such as doctorates with a view, at least in part, to the 
material assistance such degrees contribute toward the securing of 
positions in teaching or for the carrying on of scientific research. 
It is to be hoped that satisfactory arrangements may be made with 
several of the larger universities whereby such advanced work 
done at the Garden will be allowed proper credit toward a higher 
degree. 
Public Lectures and Addresses —The services of the instructor 
were in considerable demand for talks and lectures during the 
past year. Nine addresses were made by her during the spring, 
on agricultural and garden topics, before various teachers’ asso- 
ciations, mothers’ clubs, and other organizations. During the fall 
Miss Shaw gave five public addresses before similar organizations, 
one being given on October 30 at the Boys’ and Girls’ Industrial 
Exposition at Windsor, Vt. The curator of public instruction also 
during the year gave several addresses before various organiza- 
tions throughout the city, and to visiting classes at the Garden. 
