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an idea of the size to which the collections had grown 
towards the end of Regel’s directorship, it may be stated 
that the number of species and varieties in cultivation in 
1892 is given as 27,030, that the annual accession to the Herbarium 
from 1872 to 1892 had on the average been 20,000, specimens, 
whilst the library had grown by the end of 1892 to 24,000 volumes. 
The budget for the Garden was fixed at £6330 in 1870 and, apart 
from extraordinary grants which became necessary from time to 
- time, remained so under Regel. 
Eduard Regel was succeeded by A. F. Batalin, who died four 
years later, and was himself succeeded in 1897 by Dr. Alexander 
Fischer von Waldheim, then Professor of Botany in the University 
of Warsaw. 
The collections had long ago outgrown the accommodation provided 
were cramped for want of space ; moreover, new branches of the 
science of botany claimed admission into the organisation repre- 
sented by the Imperial Botanic Garden, with the greater force, in 
that as their practical value was immediately and therefore doubly 
obvious. The time had come for new buildings and the general 
reorganisation of the establishment. The erection of a new 
house and a Victoria regia house had already been decided on in 
1896. They were completed in 1899 at a cost of over £19,000. Then 
in 1900 the annual grant of the Botanic Garden was raised to 
£12,768. A phytopathological station was established in 1901 and 
gradually enlarged. On August 21, 1911, the foundation was laid 
for a new building for the Herbarium and the Library. It is now 
finished at a cost of £31,780 and is ready to receive the 
collections. A similar amount has been sanctioned for the erection 
of a new building for the Museum, and it is contemplated that the 
work will be begun next year. The. other departments of the 
Garden have each claimed and received a similar attention, and 
those, who like the writer, have had an opportunity of comparing the 
state of the establishment as it presents itself to-day with what it 
was 20 years ago will not fail to appreciate the great progress which 
has been made during that period in almost every direction. 
ORGANISATION OF THE GARDEN, 
the study of plant parasites and the means of combating them ; 
nces. 
This work is divided anon the following departments : (1) the 
park or the grounds, (2) the glasshouses, (3) the herbarium, 
