THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES 
BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN 
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VoL. V July, 1916 No. 3 
ENG THE CORNER: STONE 
On Thursday, April 20, 1916, at 4:30 p. m. the corner stone of 
the laboratory building was laid with simple formalities. The 
president of The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, Mr. A. 
Augustus Healy, presided, the stone was laid by the chairman of 
the Governing Committee of the Garden, Mr. Alfred T. White, 
and brief remarks were made by the director of the Garden. 
Members of the board of trustees and executive officers of the 
Institute, officers of the Garden Teachers’ Association of the 
Brooklyn Botanic Garden, and of the Boys’ Club and the Girls’ 
Club, and members of the Garden staff were present. The re- 
marks of the three speakers, and a list of objects deposited in 
the hermetically sealed copper box, placed within the stone, follow. 
Remarks of President Healy 
We are met this afternoon to witness the simple ceremony of 
laying the corner stone of this building, now in course of erec- 
tion, and which is to be devoted to instruction in Botany. We 
may, in our thought, enlarge the significance of the act about to 
be performed and consider it as the laying of the corner stone 
of the group of related buildings within which all of the indoor 
work of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden is to be done, whether it 
be of scientific instruction, of original research, or the growth 
and propagation of plants. In this aspect, certainly, the event is 
worthy of celebration, for with a proper equipment of suitable 
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