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of popularizing through exhibits, publications, field trips, and 
public lectures. Without it, it would not be possible to develop 
a botanic garden in any large sense of the word. It is the only 
adequate source of life for any institution that has for one of its 
aims the advancement of any branch of science, and the inclusion 
of a proviso for research work in our agreement with the city 
is a piece of very good fortune, indicating on the part of the 
framer and signatories of this agreement a broad and gratifying 
conception of what the aim and work of a botanic garden should 
be. ; 
Not only will the Garden itself benefit from investigation, 
but in this connection it should be enabled to render frequent 
and valuable service to the Borough of Brooklyn, and indeed to 
the entire greater city. Our members of staff are paid 
by city appropriations, and the knowledge of our plant patholo- 
gist, plant physiologist, or other experts that may be appointed, 
should be freely at the disposal of any municipal department 
so far as is consistent with their Garden duties. 
As to the research work accomplished during I9I1, it may 
be said that administrative duties have necessarily occupied the 
larger portion of the time of the Director of the Garden, but 
two or three pieces of research have been accomplished. These 
include an exhaustive study of The Condition and Causes of 
Injury to Vegetation along the North Shore of Staten Island, 
and two minor pieces of work, one embodied in a paper entitled 
“Cryptomeric Inheritance in Onagra,” and the other on “Ingrow- 
ing Sprouts of Solanum tuberosum,’ now being prepared for 
publication. 
The Curator of Plants, Mr. Taylor, has continued his studies 
on the local flora, and his experience with native plants, in con- 
nection with this work, has been of great advantage to the 
Garden, and is reflected, among other ways, in the nature and 
content of our Local Flora Section. 
One registered investigator was recorded during the year, 
Mr. C. B. Case, of India, a graduate student in Columbia Uni- 
versity, with temporary residence in Brooklyn, who has availed 
himself of our equipment in his studies in the breeding of rice. 
We have had under cultivation some eight or ten different vari- 
eties of the rice plant, and this investigation has in it the possi- 
