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The equipment of the laboratories has been increased in all 
departments, but the most notable additions have been made 
to the peat used in morphology and chemical physiology. 
aps the most important step recently taken by the Garden 
is ie aenieanet of the tropical station at Cinchona, in Ja- 
maica, and the connections by which cooperation with the Botan- 
ical Department of Jamaica is secured, as described in this 
number of the JournaL by Dr. Britton. 
Fic. 3. Morphological laboratory, New York Botanical Garden. 
The appointment of Dr. Wm. J. Gies, of the College of 
Physicians and Surgeons, as consulting chemist to the Garden 
has made possible the investigation of a group of problems of 
reat significance in connection with some of the fundamental 
problems of physiology. : 
The weekly botanical conventions are of value to the workers 
in the Garden in offering early opportunities for the discussion 
of results obtained in the laboratories and for the presentation of 
various subjects by visiting botanists 
