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budget appropriation) plus $3,107.94, transferred from Code 3016 
(Interest on bonds, corporate stock, and corporate stock notes to 
be issued from October 1 to December 1, 1916, and to September 
30, 1917), a total of $43,258.94. The transfer was for the pur- 
pose of providing funds for the additional coal necessary to 
heat the enlarged laboratory building and plant houses. 
There was a deficit on all accounts chargeable to the City, for 
necessary expenditures (including salaries and wages, supplies, 
materials, repairs, light, heat and power, and traveling expenses), 
of $8,512.68, or substantially the difference between the appro- 
priation requested and that granted by the City. The deficit was 
met from private funds, to the detriment of the enrichment of 
our collections, and the extension of our educational and scientific 
work. 
Of the total expenditure for personal service, $40,050.77, a 
little over 80 per cent. ($32,760) was paid by the city, and nearly 
20 per cent. ($7,890.77) from private funds. 
Corporate Stock Balances——Of corporate stock appropriations 
there is a balance, as of December 31, of $1,422.13 on C. D. P. 
200-M ($100,000.00 for Improvement of the Brooklyn Botanic 
Garden), and $1,845.94 on S-566 ($100,000.00 Suspense Ac- 
count, Contribution for Botanic Garden Improvement Fund). 
Estimates have been secured for open market orders for equip- 
ment that will reduce these balances to less than $500 on each 
account. Corporate stock account C. D. P. 200-J ($40,000.00 for 
grading, draining, piping, and soil improvement) is practically 
all expended (balance 15 cents). 
Private Funds.—The total income from all sources was $18,- 
206.05. Of this amount, $4,742.50 went for monthly salaries that 
should be met from the city appropriation, including those of 
secretary to the director, custodian and registrar, two gardeners, 
and cleaning woman. The last four of these salaries will be 
assumed by the City in 1918. The wages of per diem laborers 
were paid from special contributions after June 23, to a total of 
$3,148.27. Of the total income, only $10,315.28 was available 
for the increase of our collections, and our scientific and educa- 
tional activities. 
