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south of the Museum Building of the Brooklyn Institute on 
Eastern Parkway, between Washington Avenue on the east, and 
Flatbush Avenue on the west. The southern limit coincides 
with the boundary between the old town of Flatbush and the 
old city of Brooklyn. This is an area of well diversified topogra- 
phy, and will lend itself most admirably to the purpose in hand. 
The city of New York has appropriated the sum of one hundred 
thousand dollars toward the erection of a laboratory building 
and greenhouses, and public-spirited citizens of Brooklyn have 
contributed fifty thousand dollars additional, the interest of 
which may be used for equipment. The erection of a laboratory 
building and greenhouses will be commenced as soon as the 
necessary arrangements therefor can be completed. No scien- 
tific staff will be assembled before 1911. 
While the € promoters of this garden recognize the importance 
and hope is to make the garden as helpful as possible to the 
botanical work in the public and private schools of the city. 
The plans of the laboratory building include offices of admin- 
istration, class rooms, a large lecture room, a library, laboratories 
for class use and for research, and several private rooms for 
investigators. 
A range of ten greenhouses is planned, two of which will be 
directly connected with the laboratory for plant physiology, and 
be reserved entirely for research. The other greenhouses will be 
open to the public. 
In view of the magnificent opportunites afforded at the New 
York Botanical Garden, in the Bronx Borough, no attempt will 
be made to develop an herbarium, beyond that necessary to 
illustrate the local flora, and the energies of the laboratories will 
be devoted to morphology, physiology, experimental evolution, 
and related phases of the science 
C. STUART GAGER. 
