Since the World War no subject has been more insistently 

 presented by the administrative heads of scientific and educational 

 institutions than the subject of adequate salaries. This should 

 continue to be the case until the question is solved and solved 

 right. Such is not the case at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, 

 especially with the personnel of the maintenance force. Prac- 

 tically all of these men are receiving inadequate salaries, and less 

 than is being paid elsewhere in the City and by the City for similar 

 services. Every possible effort should be made, without delay, 

 to secure proper compensation for these men, many of whom have 

 given the Garden several years of service, and all of whom are 

 entitled to compensation commensurate with the cost of living and 

 with what is being paid elsewhere. 



In the matter of the salaries for our scientific and educational 

 staff we come into competition with the best universities and re- 

 search institutions. According to statistics collected by the In- 

 stitute of Public Service, and published in 10,27, few colleges in 

 the United States today pay adequate salaries to their faculties, 

 and the average income of the teaching staffs of some 300 colleges 

 and universities is less than the wages of skilled labor. But the 

 Botanic Garden should not be satisfied to compare itself with the 

 average, in this or in any other matter. We should not rest 

 content until salaries for our scientific and educational (as well as 

 for our administrative) staff are as good as the best afforded 

 elsewhere. Only then can we hope to secure and retain the most 

 efficient personnel for the important work we have in hand. 



Needs 



Endowment for Research 



Without attempting to list the various needs for the Garden, 

 several of which are urgent, and most of which have been enum- 

 erated in preceeding annual reports, special attention is called to 

 the necessity of providing for the continuation of our plant 

 padiologv project, and related lines of research after the close of 

 1928. 



In the Annual Report for 1919 the need of additional provision 



