individual investigator, there is no question that many 

 basic problems in experimental botany demand the 

 combined efforts of a group of experts representing 

 different aspects of any specific problem. It is thus 

 obvious that the close association of the experimental 

 research workers, such as it is proposed to bring together 

 at the Garden, with the specialists in the basic sciences 

 represented in the faculties of a great university, will be 

 a factor of very considerable importance in determining 

 the success of the work undertaken. 



The Research Staff and General Questions 

 of Personnel 



For the successful prosecution of research on some 

 of the additional problems outlined, there should be 

 added to the existing staff of the Garden a physiologist, 

 a pathologist, and a chemist; and for each such major 

 position a subordinate associate, who also is a trained 

 specialist in the field to be covered, and assistants who, 

 in part, are still in training. 



A word might here be added regarding the need of 

 a chemical staff. The study of the chemistry of life 

 processes has proven itself one of the most fruitful 

 methods of attack on a great series of biological problems. 

 Physiological research, especially in the lines of plant 

 growth and nutrition, involves, and is in large degree 

 based upon, research in chemistry. Many problems in 

 pathology too, especially those concerned with the 

 fundamental nature of immunity, require the use of 

 chemical methods. The chemistry of soils is also a 

 fertile field of investigation. The chemical equipment 

 provided should by no means be limited to provision 

 for routine matters of chemical analysis, but should be 

 adequate for research in all phases of physical and col- 



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