138 ESTABLISHMENT OF A NATIONAL, BOTANIC GARDEN. 



Antonio J. cle. Biographias cle Joaqnini Ignaci de Lima (etc.) 

 Beciee (!) 1895. Pt. 3, pp. 23-61. 



Relatorio acerca clos jardins botanicos. Rio de Janeiro, Typo- 



graphia nacional, 1874. 37 p. (Joanqnim Caminhoa Monteiro.) 



ARGENTINA. 



Buenos Aires: 



Jardin botanico. El Jardin botanico de Buenos Aires por Carlos 

 Thays, foundador y director. Buenos Aires, J. Peusser, 1910. 180 p. 



JAPAN. 



Tokyo : 



Visits to some botanic gardens abroad. Plant World, 19 : 30-31, 

 58-61. 1907. Illus. Olsson-Seffer, Pehr. 



American Journ. Sci. III. 42 : 520-521. 1891. G. L. Goodale. 



The Tokyo Botanical Garden. Plant World, 9:251-258. Nov. 

 1906. Illus. (Francis Ramaley.) 



Official Guide to Eastern Asia. Vol. 3. Northeastern Japan, 

 Tokyo, 1914, pp. 85-86. Illus. 



CHINA. 



A Naturalist in Western China. E. H. Wilson. (The author of the 

 above work is probably the most noted botanical explorer in the 

 world to-day.) 



Extract from — The Columbian Institute for the Promotion of 



Arts and Sciences. 



[By Richard Rathbun, Bulletin 101 of Smithsonian Institution. United States National 

 Museum, Government Printing Office, 1917.] 



HISTORY OF THE BOTANIC GARDEN. . 



A botanical garden was among the projects considered by President 

 Washington for the Federal City, and its location was the subject 

 of correspondence between him and the commissioners of the Federal 

 District. The latter, writing to Washington on October 1, 1796, dis- 

 cussed " the disposition of the public grounds in the city, and having 

 already recommended sites for the National University and mint, 

 they add that the establishment of a botanical garden has been lately 

 suggested, and if the site proposed, which is not named, does not 

 meet with the President's approval that a portion of the National 

 University site can be devoted to that purpose." 1 



The President, replying on October 21. decided in favor of the 

 square bounded by Twenty-third. Twenty-fifth, and E Streets NW.. 

 the Potomac River being on the south, as the site for the university, 2 

 and added : 



Conceiving (if there be space sufficient to afford it) that a botanical garden 

 would lie a ^'oo(l appendage to the institution of a university, part of this square 

 might be applied to that purpose. If inadequate, and the square, designated 



1 W. B. Bryan. A History of the National Capital, vol. 1, p. 276. 1914. 

 • This site was subsequently used for the Naval Observatory, and is now occupied 

 by the Hygienic Laboratory of the Bureau of the Public Health Service. 



