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It is most appropriate that our equipment should be utilized and 
increased for the purpose of carrying on investigations along some 
of the lines above indicated, and it is equally fitting, even if it were 
not (as it is) necessary, that the additional funds essential for this 
work should be derived from private income. There are many 
large industries and commercial enterprises, concerned wholly or 
in large part with plants or plant products, and which ought to be 
interested to encourage the investigations above noted. More 
detailed information will be gladly supplied by the director of the 
Garden to anyone who may be interested, or who might be willing 
to become interested in any of these questions and their solution 
at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. 
GesieG, 
TREE PLANTING BY PROFESSOR ENGLER 
The second formal tree planting in the Brooklyn Botanic Gar- 
den occurred on October 16, 1913, when the Garden was honored 
by a visit from Geheimrat Prof. Dr. Adolph Engler, Director of 
the Royal Botanic Garden at Dahlem-Steglitz, near Berlin, and 
Professor of Botany in the University of Berlin. Professor Engler 
was passing through New York on his way home, after a trip 
around the world, beginning in Africa, and concluding in the 
United States with the International Phytogeographical Excur- 
sion, last summer and fall. 
Ata dinner given to Professor Engler at the New York Botan- 
ical Garden on Friday, October 17, he was introduced as “ the man 
who has done more to advance systematic botany than any other 
person now living.” By his “Das Pflanzenreich,” and UD 
Vegetation der Erde,’ not to mention numerous other scholarly 
publications, he has become known to botanists throughout the 
world. 
In keeping with a plan of the Garden, inaugurated on September 
12, 1913, with the tree planting by Professor de Vries,* Professor 
Engler was invited to plant a tree in commemoration of his visit. 
* Brooklyn Bot. Gard. Record 2: I-7. 1913. 
