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Private Funds—The total income for the year on private 
funds accounts was $21,261.63, or nearly 60 per cent. of the 
amount appropriated by the city for maintenance. This does not 
include the payment of $453 for raising the chimney, which did 
not pass through the office of the treasurer, and which raises the 
total to $21,714.63. This is the largest amount credited to private 
funds accounts since the establishment of the Garden. Of this 
amount over $19,700 was received by subscription. 
Fic. 6. Site of the esplanade leading to the Museum Building. View 
acing south from Museum embankment. June 17, I914. 
The Needs of the Garden 
Urgent Need of Additional Buildings—The following quota- 
tion is from my letter of July 21, 1914, addressed to Mr. H. B. 
Elliot, of the Bureau of Contract Supervision of the Board of 
Estimate and Apportionment, in response to his request for infor- 
mation on the subject: 
“May I summarize below the facts which make additional laboratory 
building and conservatories urgent to the point of necessity, in view of 
the purposes for which the Garden was established, and in view of the 
extent to which our ie cisorient has already proceeded. 
