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nal committee were Mr. George D. Hearn, deceased, and Mr. 
George D. Pratt, who no longer resides in Brooklyn. 
The Importance of Blue Prints 
After the initial grading, topsoiling, and construction of paths 
were completed, Mr. Harold A. Caparn was appointed consulting 
landscape architect, for a botanic garden must not only be botanic, 
it must be a garden, which should mean, of course, a place of 
beauty. “ All science is crowned in art. For science, as for all 
the rest of man’s experience, artistic expression is a crown of 
life, and nothing is right until it is beautiful.” + 
A botanic garden needs the cooperation of the botanist and the 
landscape architect, for it should be not only a place where differ- 
ent kinds of plants are exhibited, but where they are exhibited 
effectively, and not only for their own sake (botanically), but 
as materials for decorative planting and landscaping, 1.c., horti- 
culturally. 
The North and South Additions 
After the first planting plans were made and in part realized, 
the city added to our original 40 acres two tracts since known as 
the North Addition and the South Addition. These increased 
the acreage to approximately fifty, and the plans were revised to 
provide additional features, and additional area for each feature 
and each group of plants. 
It is not necessary here to relate in detail the steps in the 
gradual development of the plantations. The work 1s still under 
way. Let us hope that it always will be! “ A finished museum,” 
is a dead museum, and 
oe 
said a great museum administrator, 
dead museum is a useless museum.” So it is with a botanic 
garden—with a university, with science and art and education. 
Research and [:ducation 
Vhe inauguration and development of a program of botanical 
research and public education has gone forward part passu with 
the development of the grounds, as our nineteen preceding annual 
1 Harry Emerson Fosdick, Harper's Magazine, January, 1931. The italics 
are the quoter’s. 
