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24 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 
The library and herbarium are opened to any one capable 
of using them, and books and specimens are freely loaned 
to responsible students thus enabling an increasing number 
of persons to make scientific use of the Garden facilities 
each year without incurring the expense of a visit to St. 
Louis. Above all, restrictions on visitors are limited to 
the few simple rules necessary to preserve the property 
and insure its pleasant and profitable use by all. 
FINANCIAL REPORT FOR 1905. 
We submit now for your consideration the financial re- 
sults for the year ending December 31st, 1905. 
Our rental receipts show an increase of only $521.34 
over the previous year, a few vacancies in the early part of 
the year interfering with an anticipated increase; but as 
all properties. are now occupied we may hope for an increase 
of at least $5,000.00 over last year. 
We have disposed of 220 feet on Flora Boulevard for a 
total sum of $17,510.00. 
The Board deemed it wise to dispose of a piece of prop- 
erty at the northeast corner of Seventh and Chestnut 
Streets fronting 21 feet on Chestnut, for the sum of 
$100,000.00, it having been under lease for 89 years at 
$3,700.00 per year; we hope to invest the proceeds in 
real estate yielding a greater income. , ' 
We have purchased a piece of property 70X70 feet on 
the north side of Poplar Street between 12th and 13th 
Streets, adjoining property already belonging to the Board 
and improved with five small houses renting for $1,200.00 
per year, for the sum of $10,000.00, for the purpose of 
investment. 
We have again been called upon by the City for heavy 
special taxes for streets and sewers, amounting in all to 
$47,151.47, distributed as follows: 
