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organization and character. There is scarcely a department of 

 botanical work for the development of which provision is not 

 made, the several departments being under the care of accom- 

 plished specialists. As you go about the grounds and enjoy the 

 beautiful grades, the roads, walks, and bridges, you perhaps do 

 not realize the immensity of the task involved in bringing them 

 into existence and at the same time establishing and developing 

 the scientific, cultural and educational departments. From the 

 time of its foundation, the Garden has had more than one interest 

 clamoring loudly for the expenditure of every available dollar. 

 Its economical and efficient management has usually contrived to 

 divide that dollar and make each part of it do the work of the 

 whole. 



In the conduct of any growing enterprise not only does each 

 step taken become a new point of departure, but new centers of 

 work become established by the division of the old ; and so our 

 review would not be complete without a glance at the most im- 

 portant requirements for the future. One of these is the organ- 

 ization of a well-equipped botanical department at New York 

 University. One of the leading universities of the country, with 

 well-organized departments and many hundreds of students, it 

 seems a continued misfortune that it should not be in a position 

 to utilize the many facilities which we have to-day considered, 

 and equally so that our science should not profit by the stimulus 

 and support which wtmld result from the maintenance of an ade- 

 quate center of activity at University Heights. 



Our Botanical Garden suffers greatly from the want of a larger 

 endowment fund. Its charter provides for the construction and 

 maintenance of its framework, but back of this lies the necessity 

 for supporting its higher life, and for this support we must natu- 

 rally look to its endowment. The two should keep close pace. 

 The crown of the greater tree demands a greater root system for 

 its support. Our plant has increased wonderfully in ten years, 

 both in size and in the intensity of its activity, while the endow- 

 ment has remained stationary. Its increase to the sum of 

 S 1,000,000 has been undertaken, and the amount is none too 

 large and can come none too quickly. One of the special needs 



