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. Horticultural Research Fund.—For the oe of 
bora problems, to yield $1,000 to $3,000 a 
ad for Bacteriological Research.—For the eee 
of ne and other minute vegetable organisms, to yield $3,000 
to $5,000 a year. 
15. Prizes for Horticultural Novelties.—-To yield $50 to $200 
a year each. t least twenty such prizes might be established 
to advantage. 
16. phew Ae Botanical Discoveries or Special Investigations. 
—To yield $25 to $200 a year eac 
17. Soanione Research Fund. = the Pec of 
the life-processes of plants, to yield $1,000 to $2,00 
18. General Research Funds—For the ee ne un- 
aoa botanical problems to yield $500 to $1,000 a year 
ach, 
19. Climatological Fund—For the investigation of the influ- 
ence of climate upon plants, to yield $1,000 to $2,000 a year. 
r the investigation of the relation of 
sepednen to health and sanitation, to yield $1,500 to $2,000 a 
year. 
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21. Chemical Research Fund,—For the investigation of prob- 
lems in plant chemistry, to yield $2,000 to $4,000 a 
THE ECONOMIC MUSEUM. 
The object of the Economic Museum, briefly stated, is to illus- 
trate the botanical origin of useful vegetable products, with the 
products themselves, and in special cases, and to a limited extent, 
the processes by which the crude ieee are converted into 
their usable forms. This statement should be construed as in- 
cluding plants and plant-products oe to man, although 
this relation is usually not at once appar 
The illustration of the products ease is simple enough, 
the only care requisite being to avoid unnecessary duplication, 
such as is proper, and even necessary in a commercial museum 
where it is the object to connect the products, not with their 
