THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES 
BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN 
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April, 1918 
SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BROOK- 
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To THE GOVERNING COMMITTEE OF THE BOTANIC GARDEN: 
Gentlemen: I have the honor of presenting herewith the annual 
report of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, of the Brooklyn Institute 
of Arts and Sciences, for the year 1917. 
Completion of Buildings and Plant Houses 
The outstanding event of the year was the completion of our 
laboratory building, children’s building, and first range of plant 
houses, a little over seven years after the first rough floor plans 
were submitted to the architects for study and elaboration. Ac- 
counts of the dedication exercises, held on April 19-21, were pub- 
lished in the Botanic Garden Recorp for July, 1917, in the daily . 
papers of Brooklyn and Manhattan, and in various scientific 
periodicals. The cooperation of forty-one of the leading botanists 
of the United States, east of the Mississippi River, in our dedica- 
tion programs was most gratifying, and made the exercises a 
notable event in the scientific and educational history of Brooklyn. 
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