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Only a Beginning Has Been Made 
In the tabular statement on frontis page three the need is set 
forth of an annual income of not less than $100,000, in addition 
to our present small income. This amount represents the income 
at five per cent. on $2,000,000. The program requiring this 
income is a conservative one. If we have erred in our plans 
during the past fifteen years, it has been in underestimating our 
opportunities and understating our needs. When we have met 
the conditions of Mr. Rockefeller’s pledge we shall have secured 
just one fourth of the amount needed to enable us to realize 
our present plans. I have stressed the subject of research because 
our appeal to Mr. Rockefeller was based largely on our need of 
more ample provision for research. 
Investigations During 1925 
The Research Program of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden is one 
of research in Pure Science. By this we mean that we are 
primarily interested in discovering new fundamental facts and 
principles as well as in new applications of what is already 
nown. 
In placing the emphasis on Pure Science we are helping ‘to 
meet the greatest need in science today, and are rendering the 
most important service to applied as well as ‘‘pure’’ science, 
and to education. 
Existing agencies for botanical research, such as the U. S. 
Department of Agriculture, the various State Agricultural 
Colleges and Experiment Stations, must, from the nature of 
the case, devote the larger part of their energies and resources 
to applied science. It is their responsibility to give to those 
engaged in agriculture and horticulture immediately applicable 
information. That service is founded upon the results of research 
in pure science. It is, of course, a truism that we can have no 
applied science unless we have something to apply in the way 
of foundational knowledge. This foundational knowledge must 
continually be enriched, extended, and revised by new investi- 
gations. 
