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Open free from sunrise to sunset. Source of income: City ap- 
propriations. Plantations: Systematic. Lectures are given to 
school children in the Kingman Museum of Natural History, lo- 
cated in the Arboretum. Study collections loaned to schools. 
EAST LANSING 
Brat Boranic GARDEN 
Michigan State College, East Lansing 
Established: 1877. Area: Slightly more than 3 acres. 
Directors: 
1. William James Beal (1877-1910) 
2. Ernst Athearn Bessey (1911-1914) 
3. Henry Townsend Darlington (1915-1930) 
4. H. L. H. Chapman (Superintendent) (1931- ) 
Serves as a public park. Open free, daily. Source of income: 
Appropriations from Michigan State College. No separate ap- 
propriations. Library: The Library of the Botany Department. 
Herbarium: About 90,000 specimens, belonging to the Depart- 
ment of Botany. Plantations: Systematic, economic, local flora. 
Conservatories: A small range. Publications: Seed Exchange List 
(annually). Lectures are given to school children at the garden 
on request. Living material supplied for study to local schools 
occasionally. erhaps the greatest service that the Garden does 
is as an acclimatization experiment station 
HILLSDALE 
SLAYTON ARBORETUM AND BoTANICAL GARDEN 
Hillsdale College 
Established: 1922. Area: 91 acres. 
Director: Bertram Alpha Barber (1922- iP 
erves as a public park, open free daily. Source of income: 
Partly Hillsdale College but mostly private ie Supplies 
living plant material for study to local schools 
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SCIENCE GARDENS 
Michigan State Normal College | 
Established: 1904. Area: One acre 
Directors: W. H. Scherzer (1904— 1919) ; John Milton Hover 
(1919- a 
