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mate of cost. A resolution to this effect was recommended 
to the Board of Estimate and Apportionment for adoption by 
the Comptroller, Mr. Wm. A. Prendergast, on December 20, 
1g11.* Up to December 31, 1911, the contract had not been 
awarded. 
* The resolution was adopted by the Board at its meeting of January 
4, 1912 (City Record, 40:256. 11 Ja 1912). 
Grounds 
In pursuance of the written agreement of December 28, 1909, 
between the City of New York and The Brooklyn Institute of 
Arts and Sciences, an area comprising 39+ acres, lying south 
of the Brooklyn Institute Museum, and between Flatbush and 
Washington Aves., was turned over to the Institute for the 
purpose of botanic garden. The full text of this agreement, 
including the exact boundaries of the Garden lands, is pub- 
lished in the Brooktyn Botanic GARDEN ReEcorD (1:7-16. Ja 
IQI2). 
As stated in the Report of the Curator of Plants, appended 
hereto, the Garden lands were received from the Department 
of Parks in an excellent state of up-keep, and the details of the 
year’s work in caring for the grounds are also contained in the 
Report of the Curator of Plants. 
Previous to July 1, 1910, a topographic survey of the Garden 
area was prepared by D. Barta & Co., and during the fall of 
1910, the firm of Olmsted Bros., of Birookline, Mass., were 
appointed landscape architects to lay out the grounds. After 
approvel by Mr. Samue 
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Parsons, the then Landscape Architect 
of the Department of Parks of New York City, the plan sub- 
mitted by Olmsted Bros. was adopted in its broader outlines by 
both the Institute and the Commissioner of Parks of the Bor- 
ough of Brooklyn. ‘The details are still under discussion. 
In harmony with the adopted plan, a new concrete walk was 
constructed during April-May, 1911, leading from the museum 
embankment west of the flagpole at the south border of the 
grounds. ‘This walk was west of the old walk which was obliter- 
ated and the surface regraded. A gravel path was also con: 
structed leading from the new concrete walk southward to the 
main entrance path, near Flatbush Ave., and a branch path 
