Bulletin Of The New York Botanical Garden Vol Xi No 41 Issued April 30 1921 PDF Download

Excerpt from Bulletin of the New York Botanical Garden, 1921, Vol. 2 The plan of the Economic Museum provides for the illustration of all useful products derived directly from plants and, so far as practicable, for the presentation of characteristic specimens of the plants themselves. The United States possesses no such large general collection of useful plant products as those to be found at Kew, South Kensington, Berlin, Calcutta, and other Old World centers. There are, indeed, many collections, some of them fairly large, which represent special industries, such as materia medica. Some of our larger drug houses possess extensive collections of this kind, but they are maintained chiefly for their own working purposes and are not founded on broad scientific lines. Several of our schools of pharmacy, notably that of Columbia University, strive for more complete collections, but these are primarily designed for teaching purposes. We have also a number of excellent collections representing forestry, notably that at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, but relating chiefly to North American trees. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.