BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN RECORD 
VOL. XXVII APRIL, 1938 No. 2 
TWENTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT 
OF THE 
BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN 
1937 
REPORE OF. THE DIRECTOR 
To THE BOTANIC GARDEN GOVERNING COMMITTEE: 
I have the honor to present herewith the Twenty-Seventh 
Annual oo of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden for the calendar 
veal 
This year, like others, has been one of both losses and gains. 
The losses, in personnel and income, have been serious; the gains 
have been substantial and encouraging. 
Frances E. White.—The Garden sustained its most serious loss 
on March 11 in the passing of Miss Frances E. White, a member of 
the Garden in the class of Benefactors, and one of the three 
“founders” of the Garden. 
In June, 1905, her brother, Alfred T. White, presented a letter 
to the Board of Trustees of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and 
Sciences stating that two anonymous donors would present to the 
Board the sum of Fifty Thousand Dollars for the purpose of 
establishing a botanic garden in Brooklyn. This was _ the 
amount which the Board of Estimate and Apportionment of the 
City required the Trustees to provide as a condition for the City 
to assign the present site to be administered by them as a botanic 
garden. Miss White was one of the anonymous donors, con- 
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