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of pressing neels.it cannot be long delayed, if the Botanical 

 Department is to eeoape failing into a condition of decay unworthy 

 of its past reputation. 



finally your Coswcittee strongly urges the provision of a 

 laboratory servant for the lotanioal Department , such as has been 

 employed for many years on the Dollogical side .This action 

 would relieve individual members of the Department of the necessity 

 of either providing for such attendance out of their own stipends, 

 as they ordinarily do at present, or expending valuable tiryse and 

 energy on menial and meohanioai of f ices, from which officers of 

 instruction in other universities are ordinarily relieved. 



