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well provided with “ botanical gardens,” so-called : but still 
lacks an institution of the kind established on modern lines ; 
such (for instance) as the beautiful and fruitful Botanical 
Gardens of Buitzenzorg, an institution that is called upon 
to face problems similar to those that confront us here : — 
After its example, a Botanical Gardens to fulfil its purpose 
should embrace the following divisions : — (1) Herbarium 
and Museum ; (2) Botanical laboratory ; (3) Chemical 
laboratory ; (4) Pharmacological laboratory ; (5) Horti- 
cultural section for the experimenta] investigation of living 
plants ; (6) Library ; (7) Indigeonus Flora research division ; 
(8) Branch botanical gardens ; and (9) Experiment Stations 
devoted singly to the more important tropical cultures. 
(10) The gardens proper of such an institution, should contain 
again exponents of the different orders of plants, as compre- 
hensive as possible and grown in botanical groups. Each 
above division of the Institution, moreover, should be under 
the skilled management of a professional trained investigator, 
and be provided with the fullest facilities for research ; 
and the whole of them be actuated by a common motive, 
enforced by the example and precept of the directorate, 
making for the advancement of the science of plant life 
and its many applications in securing material wealth. 
The progress of science dem.ands a Botanical Gardens 
established on a more comprehensive plan, than could be 
realised during the age in which Linnaeus lived, but the 
gardens of Upsala, Paris, Leyden, and Oxford, as well as the 
private gardens of T)r. Clifford, that proved so servicable 
to him, were — as far as they went—already nearly 200 
years ago, conformable to this ideal. 
Drawings. 
In determining the plants entering into the descrip- 
tions of previous writers in order that they might be brought 
within the compass of his Species Plantarum, his Mantissa 
Plantarim, etc., Linnaeus was greatly assisted by the figures 
by which many of these were illustrated, a remark especially^ 
applicable to the publications of the two preceding centuries. 
As an instance of the nature of this help, may be mentioned 
the memoir of Fuchsius, written in 1542, which, according 
to St. Pierre, contains 500 (519 in the French edition, 
Histoire de Plantes, Paris, 1549. H.T.) outline figures of 
great excellence, the author stating that he had declined to 
have these shaded, lest the exact form should be obscured, 
Fuchsius, moreover, laid great stress on these, for he said, 
that, good designs were always clearer presentments than 
the best descriptions, and that they had the advantage 
of appealing with greater force to the memory of the learner. 
Some of Linnseus’ works alone are accompanied by plates. 
