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dent institution, offers its facilities to ad- 

 vanced students or investigators from any 

 part of the world who may secure registra- 

 tion in the proper manner. Persons thus 

 registering at the Garden are entitled to the 

 privileges of a student at Columbia Univer- 

 sity without payment of further fees in ac- 

 cordance with the terms of a contract in 

 existence between the two institutions. 

 The essential features of this agreement 

 stripped of formal verbiage are as follows : 



student may become a candidate at Co- 

 lumbia or other institutions of university 

 rank. 



Twenty -two students have had the privi- 

 leges of the Garden during the collegiate 

 year now closing. Eight of these were 

 registered as students at the Garden and 

 fourteen from Columbia. Two of these 

 have undergone the examination for the 

 degree of doctor of philosophy, and three 

 for master of arts in Columbia University. 



Main Horticultural houses : view from the northwest. New York Botanical Garden. 



the herbarium and botanical library of the 

 University are deposited at the Garden, the 

 graduate work of the University in botany 

 is carried on at the Garden under the guid- 

 ance of a member of the staff of the Garden 

 or of the University according to the election 

 of the student : students registered at the 

 Garden may elect work with members of 

 either staff, and are entitled to the privi- 

 leges of a student in other lines in Columbia 

 University. 



It is to be noted that the Garden is not 

 enabled to confer degrees, but the advanced 



The great diversity of natural conditions 

 offered by the area comprised in the 

 Garden, includes the widest range of cul- 

 tural conditions, and in connection with the 

 horticultural houses gives ample facility for 

 work with living material. These advan- 

 tages have already been realized in the cul- 

 tural tests of critical or little known spe- 

 cies, and in physiological experimentation. 



The range of investigations which may 

 be carried on in any institution is limited 

 by its collections of living and preserved 

 specimens and the accomplishment of re- 



