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tenance fund whicli will certainly be greatly 

 increased as the land becomes more valu- 

 able, and will supply an income sufficient 

 to operate the institution in the most effec- 

 tive manner. There are several green- 

 houses, a very large and valuable herbarium 

 and library, while the laboratories of the 

 Shaw School of Botany, at Washington 

 University, are in close relationship to the 

 garden. Much important research, prin- 

 cipally taxonomic, has been prosecuted. 

 Publications consist of seven volumes of 

 Annual Reports, and nine ' Contributions 

 from the Shaw School of Botany.' 



5. The Botanical Garden of the Michigan 

 Agricultural College was begun in 1877. 

 There are now about three acres under high 

 cultivation, exclusive of the arboretum and 

 decorative grounds, which together cover 

 several acres. There are several small 

 greenhouses, an herbarium of about 60,000 

 specimens, a good botanical library and ex- 

 tensive, well equipped laboratories. 



6. The University of California, at Berke- 

 ley, has a botanical garden of several acres, 

 established some years ago, in which a large 

 number of plants are grown. It furnishes 

 a valuable adjunct to the work of the 

 botanical department, which has well 

 appointed laboratories, a working library 

 and a large herbarium. 



7. The University of Pennsylvania has 

 recently established a garden of about three 

 acres in the immediate vicinity of its build- 

 ing, in Philadelphia, and has many- species 

 under cultivation. The extensive and well 

 appointed laboratories of its School of Biol- 

 ogy, good library facilities and a small her- 

 barium afford capital opportunity for re- 

 search, especially in physiology and mor- 

 phology. 



8. Smith College, at Northampton, Mass., 

 has also recently established a botanical 

 garden, on the campus. 



9. The Buffalo Botanical Garden, in South 

 Park, Buffalo, IST. Y,, was commenced in 



1893, and has since made rapid and encour- 

 aging progress. A small range of green- 

 houses has been built and others are planned. 

 A beginning has been made in accumulating 

 a library and herbarium, and much perma- 

 nent planting has been accomplished. 



10. The ISTew York Botanical Garden. 

 The establishment of the New York Bo- 

 tanical Garden was authorized by the Legis- 

 lature in 1891, and the enabling act was 

 amended in 1894. The enterprise was 

 inaugurated and the legislation procured by 

 a committee of the Torrey Botanical Club, 

 appointed in 1889. The Act of Incorpora- 

 tion provided that when the corporation 

 created should have raised or secured by 

 subscription a sum not less than $250,000.00 

 the Commissioners of Public Parks were 

 authorized to set apart and appropriate 

 a portion of one of the public parks, not 

 exceeding 250 acres, and the Board of 

 Estimate and Apportionment was authorized 

 to issue bonds, aggregating the sum of 

 $500,000.00, for the construction and equip- 

 ment, within the grounds, of the necessary 

 buildings. The subscription of $250,000.00 

 required by the Act of Incorporation was 

 completed in June 1895, and the Commis- 

 sioners of Public Parks, in the following 

 month, formally appropriated 250 acres of 

 the northern part of Bronx Park for the 

 purposes of the Garden. Since that time 

 the preparation of plans for the develop- 

 ment of the tract has been steadily pro- 

 gressing, including designs for the museum 

 building and a large horticultural house. 

 This planning is still in progress, in charge 

 of a commission of architects, engineers, 

 gardeners and botanists, who will complete 

 their work within a short time, and be 

 ready to submit a complete scheme to the 

 Board of Managers during the coming au- 

 tumn. Meanwhile, much preliminary work 

 has been accomplished in clearing the 

 ground, in grading, in the planting of bor- 

 ders, in the establishment of an extensive 



