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tanical garden, yet the greater part of the articles that appear in its pages 

 are written by attaches of the Buitenzorg institution. 



In addition to the above serial publications many miscellaneous books 

 and pamphlets have been published by the institution, among which are 

 the following: "Catalogue of the Library," 370 pages, with yearly supple- 

 ments since 1894; "Seventy-fifth Anniversary of the Establishment of 

 the Garden," 1893, 426 pages; "Catalogue of the Phanerogams Cultivated 

 in the Garden," 60 pages (incomplete) ; "Prodrome de la Flora Algo- 

 logique des Indes Neerlandaises," 277 pages ; "Hand Guide to the Botan- 

 ical Gardens," 36 pages. 



LABORATORIES. 



For many years but one or two laboratories existed at Buitenzorg, and 

 as late as 1890 there were but four; to-day the following laboratories 

 exist, all with modern equipment : Agricultural chemistry, pharmacology, 

 agricultural zoology, vegetable pathology and physiology, botanical labor- 

 atory reserved for foreign investigators for personal work, laboratory for 

 the study of tea, laboratory for the study of rice, and laboratory at Tji- 

 boda for the study of the virgin forest. At present a large building is in 

 course of construction to be devoted to agricultural chemistry. 



THE HERBARIUM. 



The herbarium, containing approximately two hundred thousand speci- 

 mens, consists of the old or great herbarium, which is deposited in the bo- 

 tanical museum; the new, or forest flora herbarium, which occupies a 

 separate building at the present time, but eventually will be combined 

 with the great herbarium; the "garden herbarium," species cultivated in 

 the laboratory for the use of foreign scientists;; and the "Herbarium 

 Borgoriense," a collection of the plants growing in the vicinity of 

 Buitenzorg. 



The arrangement of the herbarium is strictly alphabetical under fam- 

 ilies, genera, and species — the system followed in publication being that 

 of Bentham and Hooker. The old, or "great herbarium," consists of 

 plants collected between 1845 and 1858 by Zollinger; the rich collections 

 made by Teysmann, 1854 to 1877, in all parts of the Archipelago; the 

 specimens of Kurz, Scheffer, Hallier, Niewenhaus, Burck, Treub, Van 

 Romburgh, and others, and a great quantity of duplicates from Calcutta, 

 Kew, Singapore, Berlin, and Melbourne, representing the flora of British 

 India, the Malayan Peninsula, New Guinea, Australia, and some material 

 from North and South America, but practically none from the Phil- 

 ippines. 



The museum contains about 1,500 specimens of dried fruits, 1,500 al- 

 coholic specimens, 250 specimens of vegetable fibers, 200 specimens of 

 gutta-percha, 200 specimens of caoutchouc, etc. 



In the forest flora herbarium, which contains only specimens from 

 Java and Maedura, a most careful record is kept of all collections, and 



