material of unique value for the intensive study of the 

 problems of heredity, variation, the origin of new types, 

 and of many other fundamental questions of plant growth 

 and nutrition. 



The Garden and Columbia University 



It is provided in the Act of Incorporation of the Garden 

 that its Scientific Directors shall include the president, 

 and the professors of botany, geology and chemistry 

 of Columbia University, ex officio. In accordance with 

 an agreement made in 1896, the Garden and Columbia 

 cooperate in matters of graduate instruction and re- 

 search in plant science. Under the terms of the agree- 

 ment the herbarium and much of the botanical library 

 of Columbia are deposited at the Garden, and it is 

 provided that the research equipment and materials of 

 the Garden shall be made, as far as practicable, available 

 for the research work of the graduate students and staff 

 of the Department of Botany of Columbia. This ar- 

 rangement has worked as satisfactorily as has been 

 possible with the limited funds available, and under the 

 conditions proposed for the extension of experimental 

 work at the Garden it is assumed that the Department 

 of Botany of Columbia will participate in the work of 

 pushing forward research in the special lines of interest 

 of its members and thus broaden still further the scope 

 of the work as outlined above. 



This cooperative relation between the Garden and 

 Columbia University affords also a very effective basis 

 on which to bring to the support of the new research 

 work at the Garden the assistance of specialists whose 

 aid may be needed in particular fields of chemistry and 

 physics, and other sciences. While the first essential 

 in research is still undoubtedly the initiative of the 



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