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and from the public at large, the reservation has been develog 
from an area of wild land into an elegant park and garden 
portion of the land has been withdrawn from public use, and 1 
Board of Managers has conformed in every particular to the p 
vision of the act of the legislature establishing the corporati 
at the grounds shall be open public daily, includi 
Sundays, and that its educational and scientific privileges sh 
be open to all alike, male em he ment incluc 
the construction of some four miles of driveways, eight mil 
paths, prehensive systems of drainage and water-supp 
the largest greenhouses in ica, a largest botani: 
museum in the world, which, besides collections open i 
the public, contains laboratories for t f special studer 
and investigators, a large lecture hall, where free public lectu 
are delivered on Saturday afternoons and lectures are give 
children of the public schools; also a library of selected iterat 
25,000 bound volumes, and the ae abi the Unit 
States. The labeled living plants in t nhou 
include over 13,000 different kinds Th m m of e 
t ing ov mens, ene 1 
products of plants utilized in the arts, scien industri 
tinually as a auaaee ao to) Slay produc 
Additions to all th y being made. 
Garden has er over fifty volumes Bad parts of wor 
supplementing city appropriations for development and main 
nance of the grounds and buildings, for forming the collectic 
of plants, specimens and books, for educational and scient 
