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year, the amount of the excess heing- $31,947.81. The percentages 

 of the two budgets for the past five years are as follows : 





1925 



1926 



1927 



1928 



1929 



Tax Budget 



Private Funds 



58% 

 42 % 



57%> 

 43 % 



43% 



5 7 % 



48% 



52% 



43% 



57% 



Of the total of $129,322.81 private funds income, $54,052.86 

 is income from endowment, and $75, 26<,). 95 (or three fifths) is 

 from the uncertain and fluctuating sources of contributions so- 

 licited annually, membership dues, special gifts, and tuitions and 

 sales. 



Collections Fund Coutrihufwns 



Although otu- needs increase annually to meet increasing de- 

 mands for service, the amount contributed to the Botanic (larden 

 Collection Fund (for the purchase of books, plants, and specimens, 

 and to meet various other needs of our scientific and educational 

 "work, but not for maintenance) has steadily decreased since 1927, 

 without compensation by income from other sources for similar 

 purposes, as follows : 





1927 



1928 



Decrease 



1929 



Decrease 



From witliin the Board 



From without tlie Board 



$2,350 

 7.532 



$1,925 

 5.495 



$ 425 

 2,037 



$1,850 

 5.432 



$ 75 

 63 





$9,882 



$7,420 



$2,462 



$7,282 



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Membership Income 



Although I^rooklyn, with a population of over 2,200,000 is the 

 third largest city in America (Greater New York, of which 

 Brooklyn is a part, being first, and Chicago second), and although 

 the registered attendance at the Garden in 1929 (1,127,000) was 

 equal to one half the population of the Borough, only 1097 mem- 

 bers were enrolled (five ten thousandths of one per cent, of the 

 population), and several of these reside outside of Brooklyn and 

 some outside of New York State. The total income from mem- 

 berships of all classes was $7,632.27. 



