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Eduard Regel was succeeded by A. F. Batalin, who died four 
years later, and was himself succeeded in 1897 by Dr. Alexander 
Fischer von Waldheim, then professor of botany in the Uni- 
versity of Warsaw. 
The collections had long ago outgrown the accommodation 
alge for them, and the housing of the invaluable herbarium 
library especially was dangerously inadequate. The 
ae laboratories were cramped for want of space; moreover, 
new branches of the science of botany claimed admission into 
the organization represented by the Imperial Botanic Garden, 
with the greater force, in that as their ase value w. was im- 
mediately and therefore pea obvi The time had come 
for new buildings and the general a, 7 = establish- 
ment. The erection of a new palm house and a Victoria regia 
house had already been decided on in 1896. They were com- 
A phytopathological station was established in 1901 and gradu- 
ally enlarged. On August 21, the foundation was laid 
for a new building for the nee oH the library. It is now 
finished at a cost of £31,780 and is ready to receive the collec- 
tions. A similar amount has been sanctioned for the erection 
of a new building for the museum, and it is contemplated that 
the work will be begun next year. The other departments of the 
Garden have each claimed and received a similar attention, and 
those who, like the writer, have had an opportunity of comparing 
the state of the establishment as it presents itself today with 
t it was 20 years ago will not fail to appreciate the great 
progress aa has been made during that period in almost every 
direction. 
ORGANIZATION OF THE GARDEN 
The wide range of the work with which the Imperial Botanic 
Garden of Peter the Great is charged is thus defined in the 
official French guide issued on the occasion of the bicentenary: 
The garden is intended principally for the study of the plants 
which compose the flora of Russia and the adjoining Asiatic 
