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of study, and the results. Probably the greatest general interest of the report 
will be found in the full setting forth of the plans for the future. The three 
principal objects to be kept in view are “beauty, instructiveness, and adapt- 
ability to research.”” In the development of the ground and plant houses 
the suggested lines are “for florists’ forms, for horticulture, for educational 
purposes, for investigation.” It is proposed that in the smaller plantation, 
devoted to the flora of the United States, the arrangement shall be based 
upon the Genera Plantarum of Bentham and Hooker, as the one most familiar 
to American botanists, and that in the general synopsis of the larger tract the 
phylogeny of plant groups. The Director proposes that for a few years all 
available income shall be devoted to the development of the North American 
synoptical plantation. Aside from the proposed planting, however, the atten- 
tion of the trustees is called to the further need of facilities for research in 
the way of library, collections, enlarged laboratory space and facilities, and 
endowment. Much has been done already in the way of a strong develop- 
ment of the library and herbarium, as visiting and exchanging botanists have 
occasion to know, but the thought of the Director extends muclf further, as 
the following sentence will testify: “I hope to live to see the income of the 
arden so ample that it shall claim among its regular employees men 
recognized as the equal of any in the country, if not in the world, in horti- 
culture, vegetable physiology, morphology, aes, phanerogams, pteri- 
oS bryophytes, fungi, alge, and lichens 
his same connection it should be Seni that candidates for the 
— s degree in Washington University may elect research work in 
botany as their major, which puts at their disposal all the resources of the 
Garden, with Dr. Trelease to direct them. In the account of opportunities for 
research work in botany in American institutions published in the en AE 
GazeTTE for February the Missouri Botanic Garden was omitted, as 
convenience only those institutions were considered which gave the bee's 
gree. The arrangement between Washington University and the Garden 
was overlooked, which very properly would have entitled the Garden and its 
equipment to representation. 
A CIRCULAR ~ inte eaten _ Lang -berayeane coneemnang the scientific 
division of the A \llge opened in 
in May, and to continue sith September 1807. Certain teins of tie 
seepiiecmey Eo attract the attention of botanists. The cxbnbits of an 
pets and. ‘vegetabie 5 parasites injurious to | 1 calbeetis. f 
nd animals b cial to collect of plane ad pla vA 
