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are situated within the grounds, as is also a lodge for the 

 benefit of a number of "garden pupils" who are supported 

 by funds left for the purpose and who are trained as 

 scientific gardeners and foresters. The Shaw School 

 itself has laboratories, museum and herbarium, and in 

 the school some remarkably good work has been already 

 accomplished, both morphological and systematic. 



Elaborate in its detail and complete in its equipment 

 as the S. Louis Garden is, it is quite eclipsed by the great 

 tropical garden of Buitenzorg in Java, a garden which, 

 under its distinguished director Dr. Treub, has, during 

 the comparatively short period of its existence, done as 

 much for the Science of Botany as any other garden in 

 the world. 



The credit of the first conception of a tropical botanic 

 garden is due to Professor Eeinwardt of Amsterdam who 

 accompanied the Netherlands' Commissioners appointed to 

 organise the Netherlands East Indian possessions after 

 the termination of British rule. In 1817 Eeinwardt 

 proposed to found an experimental garden near the palace 

 park at Buitenzorg, in Java, and. his suggestion being 

 accepted by the Dutch Government, the work was 

 commenced that same year — a Kew gardener being 

 appointed as curator and overseer of the works. In 1822 

 under Dr. Blume, the first director, the first catalogue, 

 enumerating 900 species, was published. The succeeding 

 twenty years was a period of anxiety for those interested 

 in the success of the station ; economic fits on the part of 

 the financial adminstrators and intrigues at home with the 

 view of making the gardens a dependency of the National 

 Museum of Leyden, and curtailing the independence and 

 freedom of action of the garden officials, considerably 

 retarded its development. In the struggle, fortunately for 

 science, the colonists were triumphant, chiefly owing to 



