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of the Garden as a scientific institution, to lay plans (and take 
steps for their realization) to make the Garden unsurpassed as a 
center of botanical investigation, 
Our research work should develop along two lines: (a) Plant 
industry ; (b) Pure science. 
(a) Plant industry: Industrial research involves work whose 
results are (or at least promise to be) immediately applicable in 
the solution of practical problems, such as the treatment and pre- 
vention of diseases of agricultural crops, and of trees, shrubs, and 
herbaceous plants in the city parks, streets, and homes; investt- 
gation of the environmental influences which affect the growth 
of trees and other plants in a city. These (and others) are 
problems of the first importance, and will challenge the best ef- 
forts of a competent plant pathologist, a forester or arboricul- 
turist, a plant physiologist or ecologist, and possibly an economic 
entomologist. 
(b) Pure science: Botanical researches in pure (as. distin- 
guished from applied) science are the bed-rock of all our other 
activities—educational or scientific. The conduct of our educa- 
tional work, the proper care of our scientific collections, and their 
administration in a way to make them of largest usefulness, de- 
mand a staff of competent specialists, whose value to the Garden 
is to be measured largely by their interest in botanical science, 
in plants and botanical principles for their own sake, and not 
merely for the practical applications which may be made of the 
fruits of research. Investigations undertaken in the spirit of 
pure science are the most fundamental of all, and by them is 
botanical science most rapidly and substantially advanced. 
I take it as axiomatic (thoughtful consideration will make it 
self-evident) that our institution must foster and encourage in 
every possible way the prosecution here of botanical research for 
its own sake. 
5. The vigorous development of research will involve the crea- 
tion and manning of special research positions. These may be of 
the nature of one or both of the two following types: 
a) Resident Investigators: For resident imvestigators it is 
contemplated appointing either young men who may be pursuing 
an investigation in connection with graduate study for an ad- 
