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Assistant Curator of Elementary Instruction. — The duties of 

 this position were discharged by temporary assistance until Sep- 

 tember I, when Miss Ehzabeth Ehner was appointed Acting As- 

 sistant Curator. 



Financial Matters 



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Municipal Appropriations. — The original appropriation of the 

 Board of Estimate and x\pportionment for maintenance for 1920 

 was $65,000. In addition there was voted an appropriation of 

 $22,500 for permanent improvements, but this was made condi- 

 tional on the Garden providing a like amount from private funds. 

 This amount w^as fjreatlv in excess of our entire income from 

 private funds, most of which, moreover, is restricted by terms of 

 gift to our educational and scientific work, and the remainder was 

 required to make up the deficiency in the maintenance appropria- 

 tion. It was not found possible to meet the city requirement by 

 solicitation of special subscriptions, and so the entire amount of 

 $22,500 reverted to the City. Greatly needed permanent improve- 

 ments, including a new fence, new bridges, steps, and retaining 

 walls, new underground storage room, and new herbarium cases 

 and library stacks, arc still unprovided for and are more urgently 

 needed than ever. 



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As a result of mandatory legislation a new schedule of personal 

 service became effective on August 20, so that (as stated on page 



26), the total municipal appropriation that 1)ecame available for 

 maintenance was $68,478.33. This appropriation is quite inade- 

 quate to our needs, and throws a burden on private funds income 

 that was never anticipated when the Garden was established. 



Private Funds, — The permanent endowment funds of the Gar- 

 den have increased by only $2^025, making the total $95,525. 

 The annual endowment income, as of December 31, 1920, is 



$8.4 To- 

 Garden Governing Committee, for the development of our scien- 

 tific and educational activities call for an endowment sufficient to 



The realization of plans^ already approved by the Botanic 



000 to $75,000 



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/ Provision f 



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institution the need of funds increases annually, and commonly 



