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meetings on Saturday afternoons throughout the season 
are held at the Garden. 
THE LIBRARY 
The library of the Garden is located in the center of the 
upper floor of the museum building, and is available for 
consultation, by permission. It has been formed by the 
Board of Managers in order to provide for the use of 
students, all the literature of botany, horticulture and re- 
lated sciences, and is rapidly becoming one of the most 
complete collections of books and pamphlets in the world 
dealing with these subjects. It consists of a reading-room, 
circular in shape, and two stack rooms opening off from it. 
The collection contains over 30,000 bound volumes. 
In addition to its own books, the library has on deposit 
many of the botanical works belonging to Columbia Uni- 
versity and the New York Academy of Sciences. 
The Cox collection of Darwiniana, named in honor of 
the late Charles Finney Cox, by whom the collection was 
made, consists of a complete set of the works of Darwin. 
These books occupy a specially constructed cabinet which 
stands near the center of the reading room. 
Manuscript letters of botanists, as well as many portraits 
of botanists, are also on file. 
THE HERBARIUM 
The herbarium consists of dried specimens of plants sys- 
tematically arranged in cases; it occupies the greater portion 
of several rooms on the upper floor of the museum building, 
and is available for consultation by permission. It contains 
prepared specimens of all kinds of plants from all quarters 
of the globe, and is the most extensive and complete col- 
lection of its kind in America. It comprises the Garden 
herbarium and the Columbia University herbarium. ‘The 
latter is one of the oldest collections of its kind in the 
United States, having been begun by Dr. John Torrey 
