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possible, namely, a sabbatical year for members of staff of cura- 
torial rank, and service pensions for all employees. ‘These mat- 
ters were noted more at length in my preceding report. Provi- 
sion is made for both of these features in all of our leading 
universities, and in a number of our museums and other scientific 
institutions. 
Woman's Auxiliary —TVhere are innumerable ways in which a 
woman’s auxiliary could be of great help in furthering the devel- 
opment of the Garden, especially in its articulation with the local 
public. Now that our membership is growing, and our buildings 
are on their way to completion the organization of such an auxil- 
iary should not be longer delayed. 
Acknowledgments 
Grateful acknowledgment is hereby made to Mr. Lester L. 
Ditmas, Brooklyn, for 15 photographs; to Mr. G. H. Schenk, 
Brooklyn, for 6 photographs; to Mrs, J. F. Nolan, Brooklyn, for 
5 fancy gold fish for the conservatory pool; to the donors of pub- 
lications to the library, as listed in the report of the librarian (p. 
79); to the donors of living plants, listed in the report of the 
curator of plants (p. 55); to the Commissioner of Parks, the Hon. 
Raymond V. Ingersoll, for 66 trees of Norway maple set out 
along the street adjacent to the south addition of the Garden, on 
Washington and Flatbush Avenues and Malbone St., and for a 
generous supply of leaves for leaf soil, and to the following sub- 
scribers to the Botanic Garden Collections Fund, 1915. 
Frank Bailey 
George V. Brower 
S. Seeley Brown 
Dr. H. B. Delatour 
H. F. Gunnison 
A. Augustus Healy 
Frances Ingraham 
Adolph Miiller 
Henry F. Noyes 
Georce Di sPratt 
William A. Putnam 
Clifford S. Trotter 
Miss Florence Starr 
Herman Stutzer 
Martin Joost 
William J. Kelley 
John McCallum 
Mrs. John Van Nostrand 
Mrs. Frederick Willenbrock 
Col. Robert B. Woodward. 
