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part in an incompleted state, so that photographs would not have been as explanatory 
as the drawings are. 
Although certain members of Congress, according to reports in the daily press, 
seem to find the volume a useless piece of extravagance—an “‘account of a great effort 
for future generations to know what somebody had done to aggrandize themselves,” 
as Representative Treadway put it,—this record of experience will be of practical 
productive value in the hands of municipalities, housing companies, employers of 
labor, real estate men, technical designers of various sorts, and builders, who as tax- 
paying American citizens are entitled to the information. 
NOTE 
N the previous number of Landscape Architecture attention should 
have been called to the fact that the minute upon the life of Charles 
Mulford Robinson was written by Professor James Sturgis Pray, as 
Chairman of a Committee, with Mr. Pitkin and Professor Frederic 
Noble Evans, who were appointed for this purpose by the American 
Society of Landscape Architects. 
