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is BO RANIG- GARDEN AND, THE Cir 
THe BrookKLyn Botanic GARDEN, established in 1910, is a De- 
partment of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. It is 
supported in part by municipal appropriations, and in part by 
private funds, including income from endowment, membership 
dues, and special contributions. Its articulation with the City is 
through the Department of Parks. 
The City owns the land devoted to Garden purposes, builds, 
lights, and heats the buildings, and keeps them in repair, and in- 
cludes in its annual tax budget an appropriation for other items 
of maintenance. One third of the cost of the present buildings 
(about $300,000) was met from private funds. 
All plants have been purchased with private funds since the 
Garden was established. In addition to this, it has been the 
practice of the Garden to purchase all books for the library, all 
specimens for the herbarium, all lantern slides, and numerous 
other items, and to pay certain salaries, with private funds. 
The needs of the Garden for private funds for the endowment of 
research in progress now, the development of the Library and 
Herbarium, and the normal expansion and enrichment of its scien- 
tific and educational work, are twice as great as the present income 
from endowment, membership dues, and special contributions. 
The director will be glad to give detailed information concerning 
these needs to any who may be interestec 
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* A written ae dated August 17, 1914, between the City of New 
York and the Institute, touching the Botanic Garden, published in full in 
the Brooklyn Botanic Garden Record, for April, 1915, amends the agree- 
ment of September 9, 1912, which amends the original agreement of Septem- 
ber 28, 1909, published in the Record for January, 1912, 
