Abstract
THE scientific papers in this report of the Missouri Botanical Garden are as follows:—“The Mosses of the Azores” and “On some Mosses collected in Madeira by William Trelease in June 1896,” by M. J. Cardot; and “Botanical Observations on the Azores” by the Director of the Garden, Mr. W. Trelease (see NATURE, p. 551). As there is a prospect that the sum at present available for the purposes of the Garden will be increased, the Director has drawn up a general plan for the extension and development of the institution, to bring it into full conformity with the intentions of its founder, Henry Shaw. One of the clauses in Mr. Shaw's will stated “that scientific investigations in Botany proper, in vegetable physiology, the diseases of plants, the study of the forms of vegetable life, and of animal life injurious to vegetation, experimental investigations in horticulture, arboriculture, &c, are to be promoted.” This clause has never been lost sight of, and a number of scientific papers have been prepared by Mr. Trelease and his assistants. The new scheme provides further facilities for research work. “I hope,” says the Director, “to live to see the income of the Garden so ample that it shall claim among its regular employees men recognised as the equal of any in the country, if not in the world, in horticulture, vegetable physiology, morphology, paleo-botany, phanerogams, pteridophytes, bryophytes, fungi, algæe, and lichens. Ultimately it is very possible that the money available for research work will admit of the employment in the same manner of an entomologist, and there is a possibility that in coming generations other branches of zoology may be represented.”, It is to be hoped, for the sake of scientific progress, that the plans which are at present only on paper will all be materialised in the near future.
Missouri Botanical Garden. Eighth Annual Report.
Pp. 236. (St. Louis, Mo.: Published by the Board of Trustees of the Missouri Botanic Garden. London: W. Wesley and Son, 1897.)
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Missouri Botanical Garden Eighth Annual Report. Nature 56, 587 (1897). https://doi.org/10.1038/056587c0
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