JOURNAL 
OF 
The New York Botanical Garden 
Vou.X June. 1909. No. 114. 
RESEARCH FACILITIES AT THE GARDEN IN CO- 
OPERATION WITH COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY. 
A description of the facilities for research at the Garden was 
published in this JouRNAL for January, 1904. The numerous 
changes which have been made, together with the steady growth 
of equipment for investigation in the various phases of botanical 
work, make it desirable to publish a revision of the statement at 
this time, 
The four years since the date mentioned above has been a 
period of growth in all directions. The library, which at that 
time contained something over 14,000 volumes, has been increased 
to more than 21,000. This includes books and periodicals which 
are devoted entirely or for the most part to botanical work, in- 
cluding horticulture, agriculture and forestry. These facilities are 
still further extended by the oe afforded students for 
consultation at other New York li 
The herbarium has been ey in — same length of time 
by the addition of more than 200,090 specimens, including repre- 
sentatives of all of the various groups of the plant kingdom, w hich 
brings the total up to more than 1,500,000 specimens, i 
present equipment, the herbarium affords unusual opportunities 
for special taxonomic work on any of the plant groups, either 
phanerogamic or cryptogamic. The collection of living plants 
has also been proportionately extended by the addition of species 
from various parts of the world, especially from tropical America. 
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In order to accommodate these additional tropical plants new 
greenhouses have just been constructed 
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