“ No greater challenge has been given to the American people 
since the great war than that of our scientific men in the demand 
for greater facilities. It is an opportunity to demonstrate again 
in our, Government, our business, and our private citizens the rec- 
ognition of a responsibility to our people and the nation greater 
than that involved in the production of goods or trading in the 
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“The third type of pure science research that requires much 
more liberal support is the special institution. . 
“I do not hesitate to express my opinion that the work which 
the Brooklyn Botanic Garden is now doing and projecting in the 
line of research . . . is of high usefulness from the standpoint of 
both pure and applied science.”—Presipent Hoover. 
