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Fig. 6. Japanese Tea Ceremony. Mr.s. Tsuya Okuda presiding on 

 Japanese Garden Day. (6798.) 



Deaths 



Govcrn'ina Coiiuiiillcc 



Mr. Alexander M. White, nieml)er of the (lovernino- Com- 

 mittee. 



y\t the first meeting of the Botanic ( iarden (Governing" Com- 

 mittee (Novemher 26) following the death of Mr. White, the 

 following minute and resolution were adopted : 



Minute Conccniiug Alexander M. JVIiitc 



In the deatli of Alexander At. White on Septemher 21, 1929, the Brcn^klyn 

 Botanic Garden has sustained a very great loss. Mr. White became a mem- 

 ber of the Governing Committee of tlie Botanic Garden in 1924 and worked 

 untiringly in its behalf until the illness preceding his death. He was also 

 Chairman of the Citizen's Committee of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden 

 Endowment Fund Campaign in 1926, and in a few months he raised more 

 than $250,000, thereby enabling the Botanic Garden to secure a fund of 

 a quarter of a million dollars offered by Air. John D. Rockefeller, Jr. 



Air. White held a prominent phice in the business and philanthropic 



