the buildings and one patrols the grounds. This force of 

 guards, day or night, is insufficient at present and would 

 be very seriously insufficient if the additional plantations 

 advocated above should he established. It is doubtful 

 whether the City will ever be willing to provide a sufficient 

 police force to prevent lawless acts within the Garden's 

 precincts, and in such case we must look to our own 

 resources for needed protection. We should have a 

 considerably augmented, organized force of guards, 

 uniformed and preferably with powers of arrest, if pos- 

 sible, to patrol the grounds day and night. 



B. The Scientific Work of the Garden 



The original plan of the Garden very wisely included 

 among its purposes "the advancement of botanical science 

 and knowledge, and the prosecution of original researches 

 therein and in kindred subjects." In accordance with this 

 plan original scientific investigation has been fostered 

 from the first and botanical literature has been enriched 

 by extensive publications. With certain occasional and 

 noteworthy exceptions investigation has been chiefly 

 within the field of systematic botany and plant geography, 

 and has concerned itself with the collection of plants 

 growing in this country, the West Indies, South America 

 and elsewhere, the identification of already known or 

 hitherto undescribed species, and che preservation of the 

 specimens for future reference and study. The herbarium 

 has become one of the notew-orthy collections of the world, 

 and its maintenance and extension should be encouraged 

 as a legitimate and praiseworthy undertaking of a botanical 

 garden possessed of broad aims. 



But systematic botany, although time-honored, al- 

 though exclusively dominant in the earlier years of 

 botanical research, has now become only one of several 



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