The essays must not exceed three thousand words in length and 
must be clearly written or typewritten in triplicate, and must be 
submitted to the Director-in-Chief of the New York Botanical 
to return any essay submitted. The three prize essays will be 
printed in the Journat of the Garden, and republication of 
them is invited from other journals, magazines and news- 
apers. 
Presentation of essays in competition for these three prizes is 
now invited from any one interested, under the above conditions, 
N. L. Britton, 
Director-in- Chief. 
RESEARCH WORK IN THE GARDEN, 
Since the last general description of the facilities for investiga- 
tion given in the JouRNAL (Jan., 1902), the opportunities for re+ 
search offered by the Garden have been notably widened in all. 
directions. 
The library has been steadily built up until it now contains 
more than fourteen thousand volumes and accessions are received 
at a rate which varies from a thousand to fifteen hundred volumes 
per year. The acquisition of books has been consistently, and 
steadily directed toward works dealing exclusively or almost ex- 
clusively with botany, horticulture, agriculture and forestry and 
but little has been expended in the purchase of journals or 
volumes dealing ae incidentally with these subjects. The 
needs of visitors to t arden for books other than the above 
are readily met by Ae opportunities for consultation offered by 
the libraries of Columbia University and of New York City. 
The collection of living and preserved plants now include a 
vast amount of material which may easily be supplemented at 
any point to meet the requirements of investigation upon any 
subject. 
