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Restrictions Concerning Memorials 



From time to time, since it was estaljlished, the Botanic Garden 

 has been offered gifts of money to be used for planting a tree 

 or providing some other ol)jcct to be prominently placed and des- 

 ignated by a bronze tablet or other suitable marker as a memorial 

 to someone related to or greatly admired by the would-be donor, 

 but concerning whom the proposed memorial would lie the first 

 intimation to the general public that such a person had existed. 

 City authorities have had such ])r()]xxsals with refereuce to public 

 scjuares and parks. The uiotive of the donor is of the highest, 

 but it requires only a brief consideration to make clear the im- 

 propriety of placing such marked memorials in ])ublic places. 

 After a thorough consideration of this matter, the Botanic Garden 

 Governing Committee, some time ago, adopted the following reso- 

 lution : 



Resolved that no memorial inscriptions should be permitted 

 within the Botanic Garden other than to those whose life and 

 whose scientific, educational, or civic activities have been such 

 as to entitle them to commemoration in public places. 



Bubbler Drinking Fountains 



In the Brooklyn Botanic Garden Record for July, 1923, we 

 published a letter from one of our visitors, which read, in part, 

 as follows : 



" I am writing this in favor of a number of small people who 

 visit your beautiful gardens every day and who would very much 

 hke to know wdiether there could possibly be a drinking fountain 

 placed somewhere on the lawns so as to enable them to quench 

 rheir thirst these hot summer days." 



Our re])ly contained the following statement : " AVe have, on a 

 number of occasions, urged in our Annual Reports the need of 

 more drinking fountains. At present, the only probability of 

 our being able to secure funds for this purpose in the near future 

 is for some public-spirited individual to make a contribution for 

 this purpose." 



In the spring of 1927, Airs. Glentworth R. Butler (as recorded 

 in our Annual Report for that year) interested herself in the 

 matter and secured from seven members of the Woman's Auxil- 



