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The English translation is as follows : 



"The true botanist cultivates everywhere the science of botany; 

 With his own eyes he observes those things that are noteworthy ; 

 But not with his own eyes alone; he also utilizes material from 

 investigators." 



The letters are laid in gold leaf with red edge, and the quota- 

 tion adds much to the good appearance of the room. The Botanic 

 Garden is greatly indebted for the design to Messrs. McKim, 

 Mead, and White, who were the architects of the building. The 

 work was done by Mr. James William Bolton, of Brooklyn. 



Pasteur-Mendel Program. — On April 19 exercises were held at 

 the Botanic Garden in commemoration of the one hundredth 

 anniversary of the births of Louis Pasteur and Gregor Mendel. 

 Dr. George M. Reed gave the paper on Pasteur and Dr. Orland 

 E. White the paper on Mendel. There was placed on exhibition 

 in the rotunda of the Laboratory Building enlarged portraits of 

 both Pasteur and Mendel, illustrations of places and incidents 

 associated with the lives of both men, fac-similes of some of the 

 apparatus used by Pasteur in his classic experiments on biogene- 

 sis, and living and preserved plant material illustrating the ex- 

 periments of Mendel with the garden pea which laid the founda- 

 tion for the modern science of genetics. 



A brood of seven young wild black ducklings have been an 

 object of considerable public interest in the Botanic Garden lake 

 during June. The parent birds make their temporary home in 

 this lake each spring and fall, and the brood was hatched here, but 

 at just what spot on the lake or the brook flowing from it no one 

 is able to say — probably on Rock Island. 



Registration in Courses. — The Registration in the spring courses 

 for adults has been as follows: Evolution and classification of 

 plants (Dr. Graves and Dr. Gundersen), 14; Greenhouse work 

 for teachers (Miss Shaw and Miss Sanders), 45; The flower 

 garden (Mr. Free), 36; Trees and shrubs of Brooklyn and vicin- 

 ity (Dr. Graves), 50, of whom 22 were men; Spring flowers 

 and ferns (Dr. Gundersen) 8. Mr. Free's course on the flower 



