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along the original southern boundary of the Garden, and the re- 
pair and resetting of the party-line fence along the west edge of 
the Brighton Beach R. R. cut, extending from Washington Ave. 
to Malbone St. This latter part of the work has not yet been 
done, owing to delays in readjusting the boundary line with the 
railroad company. 
Entrance Gates and Turnstiles—Since our entire grounds will 
soon be intensively planted with labeled plants, each one a scien- 
tific specimen with accession number, and may of them rare and 
not easily replaced, and also for other reasons, it is necessary. for 
us to control all entrance and exit to the grounds, as well as to 
the laboratory building and plant houses. It is also desirable to 
have an accurate register of attendance, and to accomplish these 
ends, if possible, without the expense of an attendant at each of 
the five or six gates. This can be done with an automatically 
registering entrance turnstile, and exits which would permit 
persons remaining in the Garden after closing hours to leave 
without admitting others. 
Mr. George M. Beerbower, chief engineer of the New York 
Zoological Park, became interested in our problem and very kindly 
consented to devise the turnstiles and exit gates, since nothing 
suitable could be obtained in the open market. For the turnstiles 
the difficult problem was a device that would register once, and 
only once, for each entrance, and would discourage the twirling 
of the stile by boys. Moreover it was necessary to allow for the 
passage of baby carriages. 
y devices of his own invention Mr. Beerbower succeeded in 
meeting most of the demands, and a season’s experience will 
demonstrate with what degree of success. Four gates were 
equipped during the fall and early winter. 
The Garden is deeply indebted to Mr. Beerbower for his per- 
sonal interest and attention, to the end that our needs might be 
met with entire satisfaction. 
Attendance.—The total attendance for the year, including the 
four months when the conservatories and laboratory building 
only, but not the grounds, were open to the public, was over 
71,600. Omitting the four months just mentioned, the smallest 
attendance was in August, a month when people are absent from 
