Excerpt from A Statement of Facts Relative to the Establishment and Progress of the Elgin Botanic Garden, and the Subsequent Disposal of the Same to the State of New-York The establishment of a Professorship of Botany in Columbia College was justly considered as an evidence of your regard to the general interests of science. As completing your plan of medical education, it has given reputa tion to the college both in Europe and America, and has excited expectations which unfortunately hitherto have in no sort been fulfilled. Since I have had the honour of an appointment to this Professorship, it has been to me a source of great regret that the want of a Botanical Garden, and an extensive Botanical Library, have prevented that advancement in the inte rests of the institution which might reasonably have been expected. 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.