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moted, not by dwelling with smug satisfaction on what has been 
accomplished, but on what remains to be accomplished—on what 
ought to be done. Moreover, the only safe satisfaction of an ex- 
ecutive is not in past achievements, but in plans for the future and 
in the very process of bringing things to pass. The following 
pages will contain the record of progress for the year 1933. If 
it is presented in such a way as to produce in the minds of officials 
and contributors a feeling of satisfaction, instead of incentive and 
inspiration, it will have wholly failed in its purpose. 
A Worpb oF APPRECIATION 
This report should not proceed far without recording the very 
genuine appreciation of the director and staff of all that has been 
done and contributed of time, effort, enthusiasm, interest, and 
money to carry the Garden over a period of stress and strain—to 
save it from suffering as much as it might easily have suffered 
during the collapse of the economic set-up of the world, to ease 
and thereby to share the burdens of administration. This appre- 
ciation finds its most substantial expression in the fact that the 
staff itself, in common with the staffs of other similar institutions, 
has accepted reductions in personal salary and departmental budg- 
ets without complaint and with no diminution of loyalty to the 
Garden. 
The president of the Board and the chairman and members of 
the Governing Committee have given every possible evidence of 
confidence and moral support. 
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THE Woman’s AUXILIARY 
No institution ever had a more active or enthusiastic body of 
supporters than the Botanic Garden has in its Woman's Auxiliary. 
Its chairman and every ether officer and member have spared 
neither time nor effort to help save the Garden from defeat by 
the discouragement of adverse circumstances during the past two 
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years. As a result of these efforts, the circle of friends intelli- 
gently interested in the Garden has been greatly extended, the net 
loss of Garden membership has been greatly reduced, and the 
raising by subscription from the small Auxiliary membership of 
the sum of more than $1500, and by a public lecture of $735.00 
