HERBARIUM OF 
THOMAS J. DELENDICK 
BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN RECORD 

VOL. XXV APRIL, 1936 No, 2 

TWENTY-FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT 
OF THE 
BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN 
1935 
REPORT Oh hh be DURBOROR: 
To THE BoTANIC GARDEN GOVERNING COMMITTEE: 
I have the honor to present herewith the Twenty-Fifth An- 
nual Report of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden for the calendar 
year 1935. 
InstirutTions THAatr ENDURE 
Botanic gardens belong to the class of institutions that seem 
to have an inexhaustible momentum, a secular vitality. A recent 

writer has noted the fact that colleges and universities are among 
our oldest surviving social institutions, outliving centuries of 
political upheaval and economic vicissitude. Oxford University 
was cited as being older than English parliamentary government. 
The University of Paris is half a dozen times as old as the French 
Revolution. 
So it is with botanic gardens. Those at Piza and Padua, for 
example, established about 1545, have continued their work through 
centuries while political and religious upheavals have wrought the 
most profound governmental and social changes in the country 
where they are located. The Jardin des Plantes, at Paris, has 
persisted while monarchies and republics have come and gone in 
France. The “ Course-of-things,”’ as Sidney Lanier vividly ex- 
pressed it, “shaped like an Ox ... comes browsing o’er the 
hills and vales of Time,’ devouring one human institution after 
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