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total receipts would have been $125,000. Or, again, if we con- 
sider that it is worth at least 25 cents a visitor to the individual, 
the total of value received, on the basis of 500,000 visitors, is 
$125,000. 
But the appropriation in the city Tax Budget for maintenance of 
the Garden in 1930 was $98,930, in return for which the Garden 
rendered services having a monetary value of $125,000-$250,000. 
The advantages of the Garden to the general public were enriched 
by contributions of over $100,000 of private funds. As noted 
previously, this monetary measure takes no account of the in- 
tangible but important educational, cultural, aesthetic, and spiritual 
advantages derived from the Garden, and which are really its only 
justification for existence. 
The Financial Statement for the year 1930 may be found on 
pages 131-140. 
European Trip 
During the summer the director spent seven weeks in Europe, 
sailing from New York on July 11 and returning September 16. 
This trip was for the purpose of visiting botanic gardens in France, 
Switzerland, Italy, and England, and attending the Ninth Inter- 
national Horticultural Congress in London, August 7-15, and the 
Fifth International Botanical Congress in Cambridge, August 16— 
23. A full account of this trip may be found in the Brooklyn 
Botanic Garden Recorp for January, 1931. 
Appended Reports 
Reports on research, the administrative reports of heads of de- 
partments, and Appendices 1-8 follow as an integral part of this 
report. 
Respectfully submitted, 
C. Sruarr GAGER, 
Director. 
