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The private funds monthly pay-roll totaled for the year 
$4,650.50. This included the salaries of the two positions for 
which appropriations were requested from the City, but not 
granted, bonuses of $2,085.50 voted to members of staff in con- 
sideration of the unusual conditions incident to the war, and the 
part time salary of one position properly chargeable to private 
funds ($720.00). A deficit of $375.30 on wages of per diem 
laborers was also met from private funds. 
Of the total private funds income, there was available for the 
increase of collections and other educational and scientific pur- 
poses, $19,792.30. If to this figure we add the salaries of the 
professional staff ($19,100.00), including the full salaries of the 
director and other staff members whose duties are largely. or 
partly administrative, it appears that we have maintained a plant 
at a cost of $38,691.73 for the purpose of educational and scien- 
tific work, for which purpose we have expended directly barely 
$38,892.30. As time passes the latter figure should be greatly 
increased in proportion to the former. 

Recommendations 
New Positions. (a) Honorary Curator of Japanese Garden- 
ing and Floral Art—The Japanese garden should have the con- 
stant supervision of a curator, thoroughly conversant with that 
branch of landscape architecture, and competent to advise the 
Garden on matters of Japanese floral art, and on books and other 
collections related to and growing out of our having the Japanese 
garden. 
(b) Curatorial Assistants—The physical labor of caring for 
scientific collections and conducting laboratory and field worl: is 
always heavy, and increases yearly as our collections and activi- 
ties enlarge. There is urgent need for an assistant in the labo- 
ratories and cryptogamic herbarium, and for a mounter in the 
phanerogamic herbarium. If funds become available I recom- 
mend the creation and filling of these three positions in 1919. 
Rose Garden.—lt is desirable as soon as possible, to develop 
the unimproved area of about one quarter of an acre, imme- 
diately north of the laboratory building. The consulting land- 
scape architect, Mr. H. A. Caparn, has prepared a preliminary 
