

ease resistance, genetics, and other lines, and for propagation and 

 nurserv purpose additional land is greatly needed, readily acces- 

 sible to the Botanic Garden. This need has also been noted in 

 previous annual reports. 



5. Exploration and Field Work. — Field work, at home and 

 abroad, and trips for the study of foreign collections and libraries, 

 and for other purposes are an essential part of the work of any 

 botanic garden. We have no permanent income for this purpose 

 and only nominal amounts have become available at irregular in- 

 tervals since the Garden was established. 



6. Publication. — It is bootless to increase human knowledge if 

 the new knowledge cannot be disseminated, and yet nothing seems 

 to be more difficult to secure sufficient funds for than for publish- 

 ing the results of research. The Brooklyn Botanic Garden is 

 now cooperating in the publication of three research journals. 

 Without such help as the Garden is giving it would not have been 

 possible to establish nor to continue them. 



Each of these journals, American Journal of Botany (now in 

 its tenth volume), Ecology (in its fourth volume), and Genetics 

 (in its eighth volume), is inadequate to meet the requirements 

 for space made upon it by investigators. The editors of each 

 journal now have in hand manuscript enough to fill all the issues 

 of nearly an entire volume. In other words, nearly one year must 

 elapse after an author has had his article accepted before it can 

 appear in type and the results of his research thus be made avail- 

 able to other workers. All three of our journals should be en- 

 larged by increasing the number of issues per volume or the 

 number of pages per issue, or both. 



Manuscript is now accumulating for additional volumes of the 

 Brooklyn Botanic Garden Memoirs, and funds are needed for this 

 purpose. 



It may be asked, "Why cannot scientific journals be made self- 

 supporting." The answer is, " They might be, provided they were 

 limited in output by the amount of income from subscriptions ;" 

 but under such limitations they would (with few exceptions) be 

 wholly inadequate to meet existing and growing needs. The print- 

 ing of scientific journals is costly, involving much tabular matter, 

 foreign language composition, and illustration, and requiring a 



