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and secure special donations for buildings, which will enable the 

 Board to have an assured income of from $8,000 to $10,000 per 

 year. 



" The Board desire to assure the public that they will spare no 

 effort to realize, in a high degree, the ideal of a Garden which 

 may become a matter of justifiable pride to the citizens of Mont- 

 real ; but, at the same time, would ask that, since all such impor- 

 tant works are necessarily matters of somewhat slow growth, due 

 forbearance be had in the expectation of immediate and striking 

 results." 



The circular is signed by the Kev. R. W. Norman, Chairman 

 of the Board; Dr. T. Sterry Hunt; Prof. D. P. Penhallow, 

 Director ; Hon. L. Beaubien ; Mr. E. Holland, Chairman of the 

 Park Commissioners ; and Henry S. Evans, Secretary and 

 Treasurer. 



Of the many objects which have claimed generous consideration 

 from the citizens of Montreal, we can recall none which has appeal- 

 ed more forcibly than this, or which has been of a more deserving 

 character. The aim appears to be, primarily, to advance the 

 interests of higher education in this branch of Natural Science ; and, 

 secondarily, to develop special research in questions affecting 

 important national interests. On the Continent of Europe, particu- 

 larly in Germany, no University course is regarded as complete 

 unless it can include the practical instruction to be derived from 

 botanic gardens, while these latter are considered as hardly less 

 important as centres for the promotion of original research and 

 the distribution of information of great practical value and wide 

 application. 



The movement is one which has so many substantial arguments 

 in its favor that it cannot fail to meet with the success and sup- 

 port it deserves ; and that all the varied interests concerned will 

 be well secured, both with reference to the public and to Science, 

 is well assured in the members who compose the Board of Man- 

 agement. "We commend it as worthy of all consideration. 



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