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meetings on Saturday afternoons throughout the season 

 are held at the Garden. 



THE LIBRARY 



The library of the Garden is located in the center of the 

 upper floor of the museum building, and is available for 

 consultation, by permission. It has been formed by the 

 Board of Managers in order to provide for the use of 

 students, all the literature of botany, horticulture and re- 

 lated sciences, and is rapidly becoming one of the most 

 complete collections of books and pamphlets in the world 

 dealing with these subjects. It consists of a reading-room, 

 circular in shape, and two stack rooms opening off from it. 

 The collection contains over 30,000 bound volumes. 



In addition to its own books, the library has on deposit 

 many of the botanical works belonging to Columbia Uni- 

 versity and the New York Academy of Sciences. 



The Cox collection of Darwiniana, named in honor of 

 the late Charles Finney Cox, by whom the collection was 

 made, consists of a complete set of the works of Darwin. 

 These books occupy a specially constructed cabinet which 

 stands near the center of the reading room. 



Manuscript letters of botanists, as well as many portraits 

 of botanists, are also on file. 



THE HERBARIUM 



The herbarium consists of dried specimens of plants sys- 

 tematically arranged in cases; it occupies the greater portion 

 of several rooms on the upper floor of the museum building, 

 and is available for consultation by permission. It contains 

 prepared specimens of all kinds of plants from all quarters 

 of the globe, and is the most extensive and complete col- 

 lection of its kind in America. It comprises the Garden 

 herbarium and the Columbia University herbarium. The 

 latter is one of the oldest collections of its kind in the 

 United States, having been begun by Dr. John Torrey 



