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For the past eight years the percentages of the two budgets 
have been as follows: 
| 1934 | 1935 1937 | 1938 ¢ | 1030 0 | a 1040 | 1041 
1936 
Ux i Rideek. 49. 2%, 48. 3%| 40, 1% 49.8% 43.73%| 48. 1% 51. 51.72% ‘St. 19% 
P rivate Funds) 50.8%] 51. 1) 50. 970 50.2%] 56. 277) 51, a 48. es hs 48. 817% 
Hindowment 
The total of all HKndowment Funds, as shown by the appended 
Financial Statement (p. 140), is $1,386,651.59. Of the total 
Private Funds income of $78,203.95 for 1941, $48,394.77 repre- 
sents income from Endowment and $29,809.18, income from 
other sources which fluctuates from year to year. 
During 1941 the small sum of $5,108.57 has been added to the 
endowment Fund principal. Of this amount, $2,901.32 repre- 
sents income from the new Endowment Increment Fund princi- 
pal, and $2,207.25 represents amounts received by gift and 
bequest. 
Endowment Increment Plan 
In the last Annual Report a statement was given showing 
how, during the preceding nineteen years, by an endowment 
increment plan, $150,795.21 had been added to the endowment 
principal of the Garden. Among the sixteen funds included in 
this plan was the John D. Rockefeller fund of $250,000, con- 
tributed by Mr. Rockefeller in 1925, which was increased by 
contributions totalling $15,062.22, in addition to providing its 
share of the interest income of $58,418.83 which became the 
principal of the new Endowment Increment Fund, set up January 
31, 1941 by resolution adopted by the Botanic Garden Governing 
Committee December 13, 1940. (Thirtieth Ann. Rept. for 1940, 
pp. 73-76.) The plan and its results were brought to the 
attention of Mr. Rockefeller, who has written the director as 
follows, under date of June 30, 1941: 
“The information contained in your letter of June 18th 
regarding the gift which IT made to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden 
in 1926 is not only gratifying to me but reflects great credit on 
you and your associates. The plan which vou have been 
