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be in residence, and the rooms could be fitted up with the appli- 
ances usually found in a herbarium and botanical museum, special 
apparatus and fittings for special work being of course provided 
as required. Intending students would require to give evidence 
of their fitness to conduct research, and a room, or part of a room, 
would be put at the disposal of each for a period, such period 
being capable of extension if found desirable. Students might be 
nominated by the University,—special students who, having 
graduated, desire to take up a special line of botanical research ; 
medical and pharmaceutical students could be nominated by the 
Medical School of the University and by the Pharmaceutical 
Society ; the Department of Public Instruction might nominate 
teachers as students during the whole or part of their vacation ; 
students and cadets from the Technical College and Technological 
Museum might be nominated; the Department of Mines and 
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Agriculture might nominate forests cadets, students at agricultural 
colleges and experiment farms, inspectors of prickly-pear and 
other weeds. Every encouragement could be given to other — : 
students to take up practical work in connection with the 
physiology and morphology of plants, and to work at problems of 
classification. A student would bring such books and apparatus 
as he could afford, and as regards the rest, he could have ready — 
access to the Public Library and the library of the Botanic Gardens, 
to a fine collection of growing plants and a very fair herbarium, 
and to the various conveniences for study (hot-houses, frames, — : 
ponds, tanks, etc.) which a generously equipped botanical establish- _ 
ment might supply. For my own part, I desire to see the — 
educational opportunities which the Gardens afford exercised to s 
their fullest extent, subject only to necessary safeguards for the a 
safety of the public collections, and to non-interference with the i 
discipline of the staff. I quite think it would be possible to carry 
out some such scheme as I have outlined, without interfering with _ 
the ordinary work of the Gardens. 4 
c. Education of Foresters. —Our foresters are some of the best — . 
abused men in the service, but, if only for the reason that they 
