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The School of Forestry of the University maintains its nurs- 
eries at the Gardens. The greenhouse collections are (1937) 
chiefly remarkable for the large cactus collection. The facilities 
of the Garden provide for bringing into flower, for identification 
and study, many plants which are collected by various university 
expeditions. 
Affiliation: The Botanical Gardens constitute an ge nae 
department of the College of Literature, Science, and t 
Facilities for scientific investigation are offered to all Debate 
of the University, and have been utilized, not only by the Depart- 
ment of Botany, but also by the School of Forestry and Conserva- 
tion, the School of Pharmacy, and the Department of Zoology. 
Historical Notes: Dr. H. H. Bartlett, Professor of Botany, Uni- 
versity of Michigan, has kindly supplied the following historical 
information : 
The earliest intimation that there was to be a Botanical Garden 
dates from the reorganization of the University in Ann Arbor 
just a hundred years ago, when Asa Gray, the first professor to 
be appointed, made a plan for the development of the campus, 
which showed the eastern half of the original forty acres as 
“ The Botanical Garden.” Gray was sent to Europe to buy books, 
and because of his appointment at Harvard he never returned to 
Ann Arbor, and this plan remained unrealized. 
A Botanical Garden on the campus was ultimately established. 
The first notice of it in the University Calendar appears in the 
volume for 1901-1902. It was under the direction of Julius Otto 
Schlotterbeck, then Assistant Professor of Pharmacognosy and 
Botany in the School of Pharmacy, and occupied an area in front 
of and extending to the westward of the General Library. The 
only recognizable trace of it that now remains is a tree of Fraxinus 
Ornus near the northwest corner of the Library. 
The space on the campus for the Garden was too small. The 
City of Ann Arbor owned thirty acres of land along the Huron 
River which it was willing to use as the nucleus of a new Botanical 
Garden. Additions were made to it by gifts to the University 
from Dr. Walter H. Nichols and his wife and from Professor 
F.C. Newcombe of the Department of Botany. 
