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MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 



Brought forward .... $38,706.67 



Office Account, 



Salaries $5,168.09 



Fuel 329.06 



Current expenditur23 996.11 6,493.26 



Research Account, 



Salaries 837.42 



Current expenditures 88.98 926.40 



Scholarship Account, 



Instruction 575.00 



Care of Lodge (January to March) ... 60 . 00 



Fuel 46.38 



Current expenditures 192.29 873.67 



Total maintenance ...... $47,000.00 



Garden Improvement Account, 



Library building 38,990.50 



Boiler 1,349.70 



Roadway 103.39 40,443.59 



Total amount expended on the Garden $87,443.59 



Publication Account, 



Nineteenth annual report 2,155.00 



Garden handbook 578.50 2,733.50 



Property Account, 



State, school, city and sprinkling taxes . . 36,869.49 



Streets, sidewalks and sewers 51,026.34 



Insurance ; 4,000.38 



Repairs 7,625.73 



Improvements 558.67 



Flood repairs 6,551.25 



Repairs and loss by fire 331.85 106,963.71 



Bequests, 



Annual Flower Sermon 200 . 00 



Annual Flower Show 267.00 



Annual Gardeners' Banquet 451.95 918.95 



Sundries, 



Of lice expenses 6,352.44 



Le^al and professional expenses .... 2,584.65 



Commission 78.98 9,016.07 



Shaw School of Botany, rents 3,900.00 



Total disbursements $210,975.82 



Cash on hand December 31, 1908 . . 4,070.34 



$215,046.16 



Respectfully submitted, 



R. J. Lackland, President. 



Attest: 



A. D Cunningham, Secretary. 



