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The Board has for years felt the necessity for additional 
plant house space at the Garden, but have been prevented 
from making any extensive improvements on account of 
the seemingly never-ending demands for street improve- 
ments, the expenditures for which, during the past fifteen 
years, have reached the sum of $401,000.00, but they now 
feel that the surplus of receipts over expenditures during the 
past twenty years, amounting to $179.399.71, which has 
been used for street improvements, will soon be reimbursed 
by sales of property, thus making it possible to make an 
expenditure for an additional plant house. 
In view of the above facts, we recently entered into a 
contract with an architect and builder of plant houses of 
national reputation, to erect during the summer a very large 
and completely equipped plant house and a steam plant, 
equal to any in this country, at a cost of about $135,000.00, 
which will be finished and ready for occupancy early in 
October, 1912. 
The Library and Herbarium collections have received 
additions by purchase and donations during the year, valued 
at the following sums, which have been credited to stock 
account : 
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The Annual Bequests provided for in Mr. Shaw’s will, 
with the exception of the Trustees’ Annual Banquet, have 
been met by the expenditure of $1,376.80, but the full 
amounts authorized, $2,100.00, have been charged against 
the year’s income to be used at some future time. 
After charging against the income all of the expenses, 
except $76,645.23, expended for street improvements, we 
are able to carry forward as a surplus for the year, the sum 
of $7,860.02. 
