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Besides the Bulletin and the Journal, regularly published, the 

 Garden has entered upon a work of a much more ambitious 

 character. Utilizing the David Lydigfund, bequeathed by Judge 

 Daly, it has begun the publication of an elaborate " North Ameri- 

 can Flora," the first parts of which have already been published. 

 Provisions have been made also for the publication of colored 

 plates of American plants. 



Among the very important undertakings maintained have been 

 extensive explorations, not only in the United States proper, but 

 in such distant regions as the West Indies and the Philippines. 

 A tropical station is maintained in Jamaica for the convenience 

 of visiting botanists. At the Garden a scholarship fund is main- 

 tained, by which it is rendered possible for investigators desiring 

 to pursue important studies here to be supported for a limited 

 period. 



A bird's-eye view only is permitted us of the botanical forces 

 at present active in our city, including schools and classes, so- 

 cieties and botanical gardens and parks. 



Botanical instruction, in the form of nature study, is now an 

 integral part of our elementary school system, and is continued, 

 in one form or another, in the higher grades. Spring and fall 

 lecture courses and object teaching are conducted at this Garden 

 for the benefit of the grammar schools of the Bronx, and it is to 

 be hoped that provision may soon be made for extending the 

 opportunity to the other schools of the City. Systematic instruc- 

 tion for the botanical training of teachers is given at the City 

 Normal College, Teachers College, in the pedagogical department 

 of New York University, and by the Brooklyn Institute of Arts 

 and Sciences. Important work in the same direction, as well as 

 in that of original research, is conducted at the summer school 

 of science at Cold Spring Harbor. Columbia University provides 

 ample and exceedingly varied botanical work in its different depart- 

 ments. Botanical teaching at the College of Pharmacy, now a 

 department of Columbia University, dates back almost to the be- 

 ginning of the College, in 1829. Although its work is technical, 

 an effort has always been made to keep in sight its scientific basis. 



At Columbia University itself, the department of botany is in 



