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York University for such work, Such properly enrolled graduate 
students are charged no additional fees by the Garden. 
Research work in botany presupposes a knowledge of plants ob- 
tained from a study in field and laboratory. Prerequisites include 
college courses along such lines as morphology, physiology, taxon- 
omy, and genetics. Bacteriology and mycology are special pre- 
requisites for E6. For E8, plant pathology and basic training in 
forestry are also required. 
E6. Research in Mycology and Plant Pathology. Dr. Reed. 
E8. Research in Forest Pathology. Dr. Graves. 
E9. Research in the Systematic Botany of the Flowering 
Plants. Die-Svenson, 
E10. Research in the Structure of Flowers. Dr. Gundersen. 
2. Independent Investigation 
The facilities of the laboratories, conservatories, library, and 
herbarium are available to qualified investigators who wish to carry 
on independent researches in their chosen field of botany. By 
“qualified investigators” is meant those who have obtained the 
doctor’s degree or have completed most of the requirements for 
the doctorate. The laboratories are open for such use only during 
the hours when the Laboratory Building is regularly open, viz. 
9 am—5 p.m. Mondays to Fridays; 9-12 a.m. Saturdays, except 
on holidays, when the building is closed. There is a charge of 
$25 per year, payable to the Botanic Garden. 
COOPERATION WITH LOCAL’ sCHOQOLS 
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The Brooklyn Botanic Garden aims to cooperate in every prac- 
ticable way with the public and private schools of Greater New 
York in all matters pertaining to the study of plants and closely 
related subjects. 
Geography classes, as well as classes in nature study and botany, 
find the collection of useful plants in the Economic Plant House, 
the Local Flora Section, the Herb Garden, and also the Meridian 
Panel, the Armillary Sphere, and the Labeled Glacial Boulders, 
valuable adjuncts to their class work. Illustrated lectures at the 
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Garden for geography classes may be arranged. 
