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 Whatever difference of opinion may exist, relative to the'titility of-a botanic garden, as a necessary appendage. To a medical establishment, certain'it is, that the judgment of scientific men has been uniformly concurrent on this subject. The exam-j ple of the schools of medicine, in almost every great city of Eu; rope, is su iciently conclusive on this head, as scarcely one of them is without an extensive botanic garden; and their practice, it is presumed, must be the result of experience of their utility. 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."