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THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES 



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BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN 



RECORD 



Vol. X October, 1921 No. 4 



A. AUGUSTUS HEALY 



" I am to see to it that the world is the better for me, and to find my 

 reward in the act." — Emerson in Man the Reformer. 



For the second time during the present year the Brooklyn 

 Botanic Garden has suffered the loss_ of one of the small group 

 of men who were instrumental in its establishment. Next to Mr. 

 Alfred T. White, the " father '' of the Garden, whose passing was 

 recorded in the preceding number of the Record, no man has 

 taken a more sustained or more intimate part in laying the founda- 

 tions of this institution than has Mr. A. Augustus Healy. From 

 the first meeting of the Botanic Garden Governing Committee 

 over ten years ago, when the Garden existed only in men's minds, 

 until the present year, Mr. Healy was one of the most regular 



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attendants at the meetings of the Committee; his enthusiasm was 

 marked, his interest w^as intelligent, his counsel was wise and help- 

 ful, his financial contributions were substantial. 



It was characteristic of the man that, while his interests were 

 primarily in the fine arts, he was active and influential in every 

 movement whose object was to make his city and the world at 

 large a better place to live in. His name was recognized every- 

 where as synonymous with integrity in business, cleanness in pol- 



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itics, intelligent generosity in philanthropy, the promotion of the 

 arts and sciences, and unostentatious public service. . .'' 



Mr. Healy was born in Brooklyn June 26, 1850, and in 1895 

 became President of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences/ 



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