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THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES 



BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN 



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RECORD 



Vol. X 



April, 1 92 1 



No. 2 



TENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF TEIE BROOK 



LYN BOTANIC GARDEN 



920 



REPORT OF DIRECTOR 



To THE Governing Committee of the Botanic Garden: 

 Gentlemen: I have the honor to present herewith the tenth an- 



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nual report of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, covering the year 

 1920, together with a brief resume of the first ten years of the 

 Garden, 



The First Decade 



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first ten years of its active existence. The contract between the 

 City of New York and The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sci- 

 ences for the estabhshment and maintenance of the Garden was 

 executed by Mayor McClellan on December 28, 1909, just three 

 days before the close of his term of office, but the appointment of 



July 



For the first ten 



months the Garden existed largely on paper, and for the first six 

 months its corporeal existence was represented by one desk and 

 the director, sharing a portion of one room, first in the Academy 

 of Music and later in the Brooklyn Museum. During this period 

 of incubation plans were worked out for the development of the 

 grounds, the construction of the .laboratory building and plant 

 houses, and the inauguration of the scientific and educational 

 work for which the Garden was established. 



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