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and from the public at large, the reservation has been developed 

 from an area of wild land into an elegant park and garden. No 

 portion of the land has been withdrawn from public use, and the 

 Board of Managers has conformed in every particular to the pro- 

 vision of the act of the legislature establishing the corporation 

 that the grounds shall be open free to the public daily, including 

 Sundays, and that its educational and scientific privileges shall 

 be open to all alike, male and female. The development includes 

 the construction of some four miles of driveways, eight miles of 

 paths, comprehensive systerjis of drainage and water-supply, 

 the largest greenhouses in America, and the largest botanical 

 museum in the world, which, besides collections open daily to 

 the public, contains laboratories for the use of special students 

 and investigators, a large lecture hall, where free public lectures 

 are delivered on Saturday afternoons and lectures are given to 

 children of the public schools; also a library of selected literature 

 on botany, horticulture and related subjects, containing over 

 25,000 bound volumes, and the largest herbarium in the United 

 States. The labeled living plants in the grounds and greenhouses 

 include over 13,000 different kinds. The museum of economic 

 botany, now containing over 8,000 specimens, illustrates the 

 products of plants utilized in the arts, sciences and industries. 

 A great deal of time and labor has been spent in authenticating 

 the specimens forming this collection, which is referred to con- 

 tinually as a standard representation of commercial products. 

 Additions to all the collections are continually being made. The 

 Garden has published over fifty volumes and parts of works 

 containing important contributions to botanical and horticul- 

 tural science and popular accounts of plant life in its various 

 phases. Through the expenditure of corporation funds and of 

 gifts from members of the Board of Managers and other friends, 

 over 100 expeditions have been sent to regions little known bot- 

 anically and valuable and unique collections have thus been 

 secured. The expenditure of corporation and private funds, in 

 supplementing city appropriations for development and mainte- 

 nance of the grounds and buildings, for forming the collections 

 of plants, specimens and books, for educational and scientific 



