BROOKLYN 
BOTANIC GARDEN 
RECORD 
VoL. XIII APRIL, 1924 No. 2 
Dien Ni ANNUAL REPORT OF REE 
BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN, 1923 
Isle AGREE (ONS AN ats IDE OUR 
To THE GOVERNING COMMITTEE OF THE BOTANIC GARDEN: 
I have the honor to present herewith the Thirteenth Annual 
Report of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, for the calendar year 
1923. i 
Investigations 
“... for the advancement of botanical science and knowl- 
edge, and the prosecution of original researches therein 
and in kindred subjects.” 1 
With the sole exception of maintaining a collection of living 
plants, botanical research is the primary object of the Brooklyn 
Botanic Garden, as specified in the Act of the Legislature of New 
York State, above quoted, authorizing the establishment of the 
Garden. In the Agreement of 1914 between the City of New York 
and the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences concerning the es- 
tablishment of the Garden, botanical research is made not only 
permissive but obligatory, for paragraph sixteen of the Agree- 
ment states that the director (there called the Chief botanist) 
and other members of staff “shall make botanic researches . 
and that they shall labor to the best of their abiltty for the ad- 
vancement of botantcal science.” If botanical research were neg- 
lected or made of secondary importance the Botanic Garden would 
fail to carry out one of the main purposes for which it was es- 
1 Laws of New York, 1911, Chapt. 178. An act providing for the es- 
tablishment of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. 
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