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collection may be consulted from 9 a. m. until 5 p. m. by those 

 interested, and specimens submitted will be gladly identified. "• ' 



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Library 



The rapidly growing library of the Garden comprises at pres- 

 ent over 6,500 volumes and over 8,775 pamphlets. This is not a 



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circulating library, but is open free for consultation to all persons, 

 from 9 a. m. until 5 p. m. Over 400 periodical publications de- 

 voted to botany and closely related subjects are regularly received. 



Docentry 



Classes and other parties of several persons, wishing to view 

 the conservatories and plantations under guidance, may arrange 

 with the Curator of Public Instruction for appointments with a 



For this service 



there is charge of 25 cents an hour or fraction thereof^ or 10 cents 

 a person for parties of three or more; except that 7io charge is 

 made for teachers zvith classeSj nor to members of the Botanical 

 Garden. 



docent to conduct them through the Garden. 



A CURATORSHIP OF PLANT PATHOLOGY 



In the Ninth Annual Report of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden 

 attention was called to the need in this country of additional pro- 



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vision for fundamental research in plant diseases^ and to the de- 



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sirability of the establishment at the Botanic Garden of a Lab- 

 oratory or Institute of Plant Pathology, An annual income of 

 $50,000 was stated as necessary properly to initiate such an insti- 

 . tute. An endowment sufficient to provide this income has not yet 



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been secured, but the plan has commended itself to some of the 

 Botanic Garden Governing Committee and other friends of the 

 Garden, and a fund of Fifty Thousand Dohars has been sub- 

 scribed to become available over a period of four years from 



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I, 1921. A curatorship of 



ogy has been 



established, and provision will be made early in 1921 for an ex- 



perimental greenhouse and grounds. , ' 



■ ■ Dr. Georsre Matthew Reed, of the Office of Cereal Investiga- 



