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Irom June 5 to the end of the year, Mr. Henry Funk, gardener, 
contributed his services without pay for the sake of the experience 
of being at the Botanic Garden. 
FINANCIAL 
Only a slight acquaintance with the facts enables one to appre- 
ciate on what a very modest scale the Brooklyn Botanic Garden 
has been launched and carried for twenty-three years. The Di- 
rector of one of our public museums recently reported to a scien- 
tific congress that, during the past quarter century (the lifetime, 
en), $38,000,000 
had been raised and expended in developing the various branches 
ak 
lacking two years, of the Brooklyn Botanic Garé 
of the museum, The same institution, now more than fifty years 
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old, has only recently made public a statement emphasizing the 
fact that it is very inadequately financed. No doubt it is, consid- 
ering the extent, importance, and results of its work, and the pub- 
lic response to the opportunities it offers. But such figures dwarf 
the modest total of a little over $3,100,000 expended for the 
establishment of the Brooklyn Botanie Garden, including the initial 
cost of buildings, and all other permanent improvements and the 
annual maintenance budgets for the past twenty-three years. 
This comparison is made because, to those even slightly familiar 
with the rapid growth and wide expansion of the activities of the 
Botanic Garden, the contrast serves to emphasize the conservatism 
and extreme economy that have characterized the financing of this 
institution, 
The work is not now financed on a scale commensurate with its 
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importance and its human appeal. The Brooklyn Botanic Garden 
could double its services to science and education if its annual 
private funds income were increased only fifty per cent. The 
present annual budget of approximately $200,000 is derived nearly 
equally from the Tax Budget Appropriation of the City of New 
York, and from private funds income. One million dollars of 
additional endowment, yielding approximately $55,000 additional 
income, would meet the existing needs, providing, of course, that 
the Tax Budget appropriation does not fall below its 1932 figure. 
Passing over the importance of our work in intangible ways 
that cannot be registered by recording turnstiles, it must be recog- 
