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A new American institute of research, the Jewish Agricultural 

 Experiment Station, has just been incorporated in New York. 

 The station is to be located at the foot of Mt. Carmel, and, under 

 the directorship of Mr. Aaron Aaronsohn, will endeavor " to put 

 the Jewish colonists and farmers of Palestine and the neighboring 

 colonies in a position to carry on agriculture" in a progressive 

 manner. Laboratory privileges will be given properly accredited 

 visitors. 



Brooklyn is to have a botanic garden and arboretum. Thirty 

 acres of grounds are now being laid out by Frederick L. Olmstead, 

 the landscape artist, back of the Museum of the Brooklyn Insti- 

 tute of Arts and Sciences on Eastern Parkway. A recent en- 

 dowment of ;^ 50,000 through unnamed friends of the Brooklyn 

 Institute has made possible the establishment of the Brooklyn 

 Botanic Garden, for the construction of which the city is pledged 

 for ;^ 1 00,000. Professor C. Stuart Gager, head of the depart- 

 ment of botany of the University of Missouri, has accepted the 

 directorship of the Garden. The plans include large laboratories, 

 affording opportunity for study to the pupils of the pubHc and 

 private schools, as well as graduate students. Professor Gager's 

 professional experience in normal and high schools, and in sev- 

 eral colleges and universities, including some years at the New 

 York Botanical Garden, fit him admirably for the position of 

 Director of the new Brooklyn Botanic Garden, which promises 

 to contribute most helpfully to the problems of the teaching of 

 botany. 



