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a small part of the whole establishment financially. It is certainly 
true that the extensive economic outlay represents an important part 
of the facilities for research, but such outlay is not essential to the 
inauguration of facilities for research in the tropics. The use of 
Buitenzorg as an illustration had reference only to equipment for 
such scientific work as has brought that station into botanical notice. 
The suggestion of the GazeTTE, and, so far as we know, the thought 
of the commission, does not contemplate an extensive establishment, 
with permanent director and staff, but merely an HJ sana to work 
in tropical surroundings. 
