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used for the purchase of specimens and books, for the publication 
of scientific and popular contributions, for research and explora-’ 
tion, scientific lectures, scientific apparatus, etc. The well-known 
advantages of an endowment fund are of course the same for the 
Brooklyn Botanic Garden as for any other scientific and educa- 
tional institution. 
If the plans above briefly outlined can be realized within a 
reasonable period of time (approximately five years), the Garden 
will be an institution in which every citizen, not only of Brooklyn 
but of the entire Greater New York, may feel a justifiable pride. 
But financially we must become entirely independent of “ popu- 
lar” interest and approval, and so far as our scientific work is 
concerned, entirely independent of political favor and fortunes, 
if we are to accomplish all that we ought as a scientific and educa- 
tional institution of the first rank, and if we are to secure the 
establishment of this work on a solid and permanent basis. 
Respectfully submitted, 
. STUART GAGER, 
Director. 
APPENDIX 2 
PUBLICATIONS OF MEMBERS OF STAFF AND REGISTERED INVESTI- 
GATORS DURING I9I6 
Benedict, Ralph C. 
Some horticultural fern variations. Am. Fern Jour. 6: 
So15. pl. 1-3. March. 
The origin of new varieties of Nephrolepis by orthogenetic 
saltation: I. Progressive variations. Bull. Torrey Club 43 ;207- 
234. pl. 10-15. June. 
An Adirondack fern-list. Am. Fern Jour. 6: 81-85. 
Sept. 
The N ephrolepis collection at the Brooklyn Botanic Gar- 
den. Brooklyn Bot. Gard. Record 5: 143-148. October. 
(Also published in several horticultural weeklies, Horticulture, 
Florists’ Exchange, and, in modified form in Bailey’s Standard 
Cyclopedia of Horticulture, Vol. IV. 
