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6. Ancillary to our scientific investigations provision should be ~ 
made as follows: 
(a) For adequate laboratory equipment—to be acquired as the 
needs arise in connection with any investigation in progress. 
(b) For laboratory assistants. | 
(c) For adequate library and herbarium facilities. 
(d) For photographic and other illustrating. 
(e) For reasonable stenographic assistance. 
(f) For publishing the results of research. 
7. Nothing can enrich and energize all of our work, from top 
to bottom, like the presence here of a staff of competent, zealous 
investigators, broad-minded enough to be interested, not only in 
their own immediate problems, but in furthering the entire pur- 
pose, possibilities and duties of such an institution as the Brook- 
lyn Botanic Garden aims to be. Every piece of research prose- 
cuted in our laboratories will enrich our scientific collections, 
our library, our illustrative material, our public exhibits, and our 
~ popular educational work, and will become a stimulus to every 
member of staff. With the start we have, with our unsurpassed 
location in a city fast becoming the scientific and educational 
center of our entire country, with only two or three such botan- 
ical institutions as is here proposed now existing in this country, 
and very few in the entire world, our opportunity and our duty 
seem clearly indicated. 
III. Needs 
To accomplish the work above outlined funds will be needed 
(by the end of the five-year period) approximately as follows: 
Permanent Improvements—Between $100,000 and $125,000— 
to be furnished through the issue of corporate stock of the City of 
New York for the new fence, suitable entrances, water basins, 
stone walls, stone steps and curbing, and other permanent im- 
provements. 
Maintenance —$435,000 for 1918, to be increased ultimately to 
not less than $60,000, to be paid from the city tax budget for the 
maintenance of the Garden so far as it is a public charge. 
Endowment.—An endowment fund (now $78,000) needing to 
be increased to $500,000, and ultimately more, the income to be 
