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cists this question was decided in the affirmative, and an advisory 
committee on the content of the proposed garden was organized. 
The Botanic Garden is under deep obligations to those who gen- 
erously offered to serve on this committee, as follows: 
Apvisory COMMITTEE ON MEpbICcINAL PLANTS 
Dr, Frederick Schroeder, Chairman, representing the Long Is- 
land College of Medicine and Kings County Medical Society; 
Dr. Charles W. Ballard, College of Pharmacy of Columbia Uni- 
versity; Dr. Ralph H. Cheney, Brooklyn Botanic Garden and 
Brooklyn College of Pharmacy; Dr. William Mansfield, Albany 
College of Pharmacy of Union University; Dr. Erwin E. Nelson, 
United States Department of Agriculture; Mr. F. W. Nitardy, 
representing E. R. Squibb & Sons, New York; Dr. George B. 
Wallace, New York Academy of Medicine; Dr. Frederick 
Wulling, College of Pharmacy of the University of Minnesota. 
The plants in the garden, and described in this GuIpE, constitute 
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the list recommended by this committee. 
Because of related interest, a number of poisonous plants, most 
of them not officinal (i.e., official, in the pharmacopoeia of the 
United States), have been included in a separate part of the garden, 
as shown on the diagram (Tig. 3 There are, of course, overlaps 
in all three groups—culinary, poisonous, and medicinal. 
The Botanic Garden wishes also to acknowledge here its deep 
obligation to Dr. Charles B. Ballard, Dean of the College of 
Pharmacy of Columbia University, a member of our Advisory 
Committee, who has generously agreed to add to his already full 
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