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By terms of an Agreement, entered into in 1917, between New 
York University and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, courses of 
graduate rank offered by the Botanic Garden, when approved by 
the Faculty of the Graduate School of New York University, are 
listed as courses in the Graduate School, and are given the same 
credit as other graduate courses. Properly qualified students who 
take these courses may present them in satisfaction of the require- 
ments for advanced degrees given by the University. 
By special arrangement credit has also been granted by Colum- 
bia University for investigations carried on at the Botanic Garden 
in partial fulfillment of the University requirements for the mas- 
ter’s and doctor’s degrees. 
IPTDASIE CNA DIKGUNES: 
The Brooklyn Botanic Garden has been interested not merely 
in the development of research within its own walls, but in 
its encouragement in a larger way throughout the botanical world. 
In harmony with this broad policy, it has made possible the es- 
tablishment of two new and much needed journals, has afforded 
favorable conditions for the continuation of a third, and is co- 
operating in the business management of a fourth. 
American Journal of Botany—The offer of the Garden to as- 
sume certain financial obligations and a local habitation for the 
American Journal of Botany (in cooperation with the Botanica! 
Society of America) was one of the large factors that made possi- 
ble the establishment of that journal in 1914. Previous to that 
time research papers were being produced at a rate so much faster 
than they could be published by all existing periodicals that fully 
a year must elapse between the acceptance of a manuscript and 
its publication. The establishment of the American Journal of 
Botany under the aegis of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden offered 
temporary relief. So greatly has botanical research increased in 
amount since the establishment of that journal that the situation 
with reference to tardy publication is almost as bad now as in 1914. 
Ecology—A similar service was rendered by the Garden in 
