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cal experimentation. It should be equipped with the 

 customary apparatus that is required in general for the 

 kind of research proposed, and additional special equip- 

 ment should be provided from time to time as the needs 

 of special researches require. In addition to laboratories 

 for the proposed physiological, ecological, pathological 

 and chemical work, the building should also include 

 provision for the work in genetics, which is at present 

 very inadequately provided for in the Museum building 

 and the propagating houses. The building should be 

 located so as to be readily accessible to experimental 

 plots adequate in area, and it should be capable of en- 

 largement as new fields for investigation become appar- 

 ent in the future. A very considerable increase in the 

 present experimental greenhouse space would also be 

 needed. 



The cost of such additions to the research staff of 

 the Garden, with the necessary laboratory building 

 and equipment, would be at least $1,000,000. The 

 expansion of investigations already in progress would 

 require additional funds. 



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