The extension of the scientific work of the Garden along 

 these experimental lines related to the life processes of 



plants would require the ap- 

 "eSnS work" Pointment to the scientific staff 

 of at least one physiologist, one 

 experimental pathologist, and one chemist. These should 

 be men of high scientific standing, promise and vision, 

 capable of originating and pursuing successfully their 

 various researches, and they should be allowed freedom 

 of action. They should be aided by competent subordi- 

 nates, both trained persons of scientific promise and less 

 highly trained laboratory assistants. 



One of the duties of a public institution in which scien- 

 tific research is prominent among its activities is to offer 



opportunities for research to 

 Special investigators . . , . . 



others than the immediate mem- 

 bers of its staff. It is to the credit of the Garden that in 

 the past it has recognized this duty and has placed its 

 facilities at the disposal of many persons who have come 

 to it from other institutions for the purpose of investigat- 

 ing specific problems of systematic botany. With the 

 proposed extension of its scientific work its attractiveness 

 for special investigators ought to be increased many fold. 

 If the Garden should become known as a place in which 

 the highest types of experimental investigation into the 

 insistent botanical problems of the day could be freely 

 pursued under stimulating leaders, it would have no lack 

 of special investigators. It would bring workers, not only 

 from this country, but from European countries — workers 

 who would spread a knowledge of the Garden among the 

 world's botanists and add to its prestige. In doing this 

 it would contribute both to the development of a broad 

 botanical science and to the broad education of the 

 younger botanists who are destined to take the places of 

 those who must ultimately retire from active work. 



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