

THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES 



BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN 



RECORD 



Vol. XII July, 1923 No. 3 



UNVEILING OF THE ALFRED T. WHITE MEMORIAL 



On Thursday afternoon, June 7, 1923, at 4 o'clok exercises 

 were held on the occasion of the unveiling of the Memorial to the 

 late Alfred T. White, "father" and benefactor of the Brooklyn 

 Botanic Garden, and for eleven years chairman of the Botanic 

 Garden Governing- Committee. The memorial consists of a 

 semi-circular stone seat facing a tablet of serpentine rock, which 

 bears a bronze plaque 6 ft. high by $y 2 ft. wide; designed by 

 Mr. Daniel Chester French. At the right of the design is the fig- 

 ure of a woman, seated, with a small child beside her. In her lap is 

 a partly completed wreath of mountain laurel, and she is reach- 

 ing forward to pluck a branch from a laurel bush in blossom on 

 the opposite side of the plaque beneath an oak. The space be- 

 tween the tablet and the seat is paved with irregular slabs of slate, 

 and the area immediately back of the seat is thickly planted with 

 pines. The seat and tablet were designed by Mr. Henry Bacon, 

 who was the architect of the Lincoln Monument in Washington. 

 The statute of Lincoln in this monument was by Mr. French. 



The memorial was a gift from former friends and associates of 

 Mr. White. The Memorial Committee was composed of Mr. 

 Frederic B. Pratt, Chairman, Mr. Frank L. Babbott, Mr. William 

 Hamlin Childs, Mr. Walter II. Crittenden, Mr. Robert W. De- 

 Forest, Mr. Darwin R. James, Mr. James H. Post, Mr. William 



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