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he Brooklyn Botanic Garden voted voluntarily to assess them- 
selves for four months (December—March) one per cent. of their 
salaries or partial salaries received from the tax budget. With 
the acquiescence of the Mayor's Committee, the amount thus 
raised was added to the Garden’s own personal service budget to 
prolong the period of employment for per diem employees.  Simi- 
lar pledges were made in December, 1931, for a period of five 
months. This, notwithstanding the fact that many of our em- 
ployees through lodge, church, or other agencies, had already made 
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contributions for unemployment relief. The response was spon- 
taneous and whole-hearted, and all the more so in view of the fact 
1em employees were to be the bene- 
(er 
that our own temporary per « 
ficiaries. The occasion was recognized as an opportunity to serve 
the Botanic Garden as well as to meet an existing emergency. 
The director is pleased to record here his receipt of expression of 
appreciation of these contributions by the Governing Comunittee 
of the Garden and also by Mayor Walker on behalf of the Mayor’s 
Committee. 
One of our generous anonymous contributors also made two 
special contributions of funds (totaling $1275) in order that one 
the temporary employees might not have to be laid off. 
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Emergency Work and Relief Bureau 
This Bureau is the distributing agency of the Emergency Un- 
employment Rehef Committee. Between January 1 and July 1, 
as many as 23 temporary employees were engaged at one time 
i various capacities in the Laboratory Building, and six on the 
grounds. The indoor people (2 men and 21 women) worked five 
days a week at $3 a day, and the men outdoors three days a week 
at $5 a day. The indoor employment included stenography, typ- 
ing, office and library assistance, curatorial assistance (adminis- 
trative), translating botanical works from foreign language into 
english, herbarium assistance, telephone switchboard, ete. 
During the last half of the year, there was a change in the per- 
sonnel of these employees, some being discontinued and others 
assigned. At the close of the year the total number was 19 
women and five men in the building, and 14 men in the laboring 
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force outdoors. 
