JOURNAL 
The New York Bole nice ae 
Vou. VI. Vi. ot “1905, No. 64. 64. 
THE NEED OF ADDITIONAL ENDOWMENT. 
The New York Botanical Garden needs endowment to the ex- 
tent of at least $1,000,000. Through the generosity of a few 
persons it now has invested ae 000, on which the yearly income 
is from $13,000 to $14,00 It needs an income of $50,000, 
applicable to oan ete work, in order that such work may 
be ia thoroughly and iat panes 
paw ee ation; Our home ee is wide, and 
in parts imperfectly explored ; our foreign possessions, as well as 
the West Indies, Panama and Central America, are botanically 
but partially kno 
2. For the pice of desirable plants and specimens not other- 
wise obtainable, for the greenhouses and museums. We receive 
uch by gift and exchange; but more or less purchasing is 
necessary. 
3. To complete the Botanical Library, by purchasing the most 
important works of the past, as well as current publications ; and 
most important of all, 
x the Maintenance of Original Research on all botanical 
questions ; specially on the problems of plant life, its progress 
and modifications, and its relations to horticulture, agriculture 
and forestry, and to human life, disease and its cure; also, as 
tributary and essential to the foregoin 
5. For the Maintenance of Competent Scientists, for laboratory 
investigations, and as teachers of special research students and 
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