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park system, for the health, instruction and enjoyment of the 
people ; but for support of the life and soul of the Garden, as a 
valuable and progressive scientific institution, we must look mainly 
to the public-spirited citizens of New York. Much has been 
alre ae done, as a glance at its work will show. The Directors 
a 
already stated; and in gifts of plants, books, apparatus and the 
deposit of collections, have received about $235,000 more, mak- 
ing a total of about $930,000 contributed by individuals. 
The Garden has won an honored and a world-wide name for 
what it has so far done, but it must have means for progress. 
Will you not help in this ae penieal for educational and 
scientific work ? Remittances may be made to either of the under- 
N. L. Brr 
ee Chish 
Grand Central Station, N. Y. Botanical Garden 
In behalf of the Board of Managers of the New York Botanical 
Garden, 
Appison Brown, 
Chairman of the Executive Committee. 
REPORT ON A VISIT TO THE ROYAL GARDENS, 
KEW, AND TO THE BRITISH MUSEUM OF 
NATURAL HISTORY, LONDON, ENGLAND. 
To THe Screntiric Directors, 
Gentlemen Pursuant to your permission to continue investi- 
gation of the West Indian flora I have visited the Royal Gar- 
dens at Kew, and the British Museum of Natural History, South 
Kensington, London, England, being absent for these purposes 
from August 18 to September 18, 1909. My objects were to 
examine i and specimens from the West Indies and espe- 
cially types and cotypes from Jamaica and Cuba, contained in 
the aie of these two great institutions and to compare 
