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offered is invited from anyone interested, under the conditions 
outlined in the foregoing resolutions. 
N. L. Brirron, 
Director-in- Chief. 
RESEARCH WORK IN THE GARDEN. 
A description of the general facilities for botanical investigation 
offered by the Garden was printed in the Journat for January, 
Igor (No. 13). During the past year the equipment and or- 
ganization of the various departments concerned have been made 
much more efficient by the addition of apparatus and other ma- 
terial facilities as well as by the appointment of new members of 
As a consequence the number of subjects which may 
be pursued to advantage is increased, notably in palaeobotany, 
economic botany and plant pathology, and the opportunities for 
work in other lines have been broadened. The codperation of 
the botanical staff of Columbia University, of Professor Rusby of 
the College of Pharmacy and of Professor Burgess of the Normal 
College has been continued. 
The library has received additions of more than a thousand 
volumes and twice as many pamphlets and now includes over ten 
thousand volumes. The most notable additions were made by 
the deposit of the paleobotanical library of Columbia University, 
and by the purchase of several hundred volumes by means of 
money contributed by several friends of the Garden. 
The equipment of the laboratories has been increased by a 
number of important pieces of optical, chemical and physiological 
apparatus, and a number of special desks for investigators have 
been constructed after a design by the director. In addition to 
the appliances for cultural work in the skylighted rooms, dark 
chambers and constant temperature rooms in the laboratories, one 
of the working greenhouses has been set aside for the use of 
experimenters. 
The collection of living plants now embraces more than ten 
thousand species and affords material for diverse investigations. 
Furthermore it may be readily enriched in any group when 
