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through political influence. In 1830 a young gardener, twenty years 
of age, Mr. J. E. Teijsmann, without scientific training, but with great 
energy, perseverance and sound judgment, was placed in charge. For 
more than half a century he directed the fortunes of the garden, rais- 
ing it from a state of lethargy to one of usefulness, and causing it on 
the whole to make wonderful development, although through politi- 
cal and other misfortunes it several times met with disheartening re- 
verses. In 1844 the large and important herbarium was ordered to be 
sent to Holland, to the Royal Herbarium at Leyden, a loss to the 
garden still felt in the study of the native flora, although the present 
collection is very ‘large. 
The library possesses about 2,400 volumes, more than half being ex- 
clusively botanical, also 165 periodicals. Large collections of vege- 
table products of various kinds form an attractive museum for study 
and instruction. The garden covers 144 acres, and abounds in beauti- 
ful landscape effects, noble trees, and a wealth of tropical plants, 
numbering over 9,000 species. The principal buildings are the museum, 
the agricultural-chemical laboratory, the pharmacological laboratory, 
the studio for photography and engraving, the large botanical labor- 
atory (where visiting botanists work), and the offices and small botan- 
ical laboratory. The staff consists of fifteen members beside the di- 
rector; the labor of caring for the garden is performed by about 200 
native Javanese. 
Although the garden was founded and has been maintained for 
practical ends, it has of late years attained a high reputation for its 
Scientific researches, partly published in the Annales of the garden, 
and partly elsewhere. The present management has provided facili- 
hes for visiting botanists, the laboratory for their use being opened in 
1885, and encourages the freest use of the same. The visiting list is 
already long, including many well known names, such as Professors 
Solms-Laubach (Strassburg), Goebel (Munich), Tschirch (Berlin), 
prnenad Soe Stahl (Jena), Haberlandt (Graz), and others. has 
ond Sects mit visit appears to be from November to March, al- 
ors are likely to be found in the laboratory at all 
times of the year. 
oivhey is given for the purpose of calling attention both to a 
bles fay and attractive book, and to a tropical laboratory where Amet- 
€stigators will find a hearty welcome and rare facilities for 
Study of vegetation under the tropics. 
