
THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES 
BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN 
RECORD 
VoL. XI April, 1922 

No. 2 
BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN, 
EO2m 
REPORT-OF THE DIREGROR 
To THE GOVERNING COMMITTEE OF THE BOTANIC GARDEN: 
I have the honor to present herewith the eleventh annual report 
of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. 
Losses and Gains 
The year 1921 has been one of great losses and of substantial 
gains. On January 29 the man who, more than any other one 
person, made the Brooklyn Botanic Garden possible, Mr. Alfred T. 
White, met his death by drowning while skating on Forest Lake, 
near Central Valley, N.Y. The Botanic Garden Recorp for July, 
1921, was a memorial number to Mr. White, and it will not be 
essential to repeat here the details there set forth. Only two days 
before his death Mr. White was in conference with other members 
of the Botanic Garden Governing Committee, the director, and the 
consulting landscape architect, concerning the development of the 
north addition, between the Brooklyn Museum and Mt. Prospect 
reservoir. He was not destined to see the plans then approved 
carried into execution, but the work was well along toward com- 
pletion when winter weather compelled a temporary cessation to 
the operations. 
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