THE BOTANIC GARDEN AND THE CITY 
The Brooktyn Botanic GARDEN, established in 1910, is a De- 
partment of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. It 1s 
supported in part by municipal appropriations, and in part by 
private funds, including income from endowment, membership | 
dues, and special contributions. Its articulation with the City is 
through the Department of Parks. 
The City owns the land devoted to Garden purposes, builds, 
lights, and heats the buildings, and keeps them in repair, and in- 
cludes in its annual tax budget an appropriation for maintenance. 
One third of the cost of the present buildings was met from pri- 
vate funds. 
Appointments to all positions are made by the director of the 
Garden, with the approval of the Botanic Garden Governing Com- 
mittee, and all authorized expenditures for maintenance are made 
in the name of the private organization, from funds advanced by 
the Institute, which, in turn, is reimbursed from time to time by 
the City, within the limits, and according to the terms, of the annual 
appropriation. 
By terms of a written Agreement, dated August 17, 1914,* be- 
tween the City of New York and the Institute, touching the Botanic 
Garden, all plants must be purchased with private funds. In addi- 
tion to this, it has been the practice of the Garden to purchase all 
books for the library, all specimens for the herbarium, all lantern 
slides, and numerous other items, and to pay certain salaries, with 
private funds. | 
The needs of the Garden for private funds for all these purposes 
are more than twice as great as the present income from endow- 
ment, membership dues, and special contributions. The director 
of the Garden will be glad to give full information as to possible 
uses of such funds to any who may be interested. 
* This Agreement, published in full in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden 
Record, for April, 1915, amends the agreement of September 9, rgr2, 
which amends the original agreement of September 28, 1900, published in 
the Record for January, 1912. 
