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decease of his uncle a proposal was made to discontinue our project 
of research in plant pathology, toward which Mr. White had con- 
tributed $50,000 and to expend the unincumbered balance of the 
fund for general purposes. The termination of this project would 
have been a serious blow to the Garden. Mr. Frothingham saw 
this clearly and secured statements in commendation of the work 
and of its importance from the National Research Council and 
other sources. ‘This resulted in saving the unincumbered balance 
tor the purpose intended by the donor, and in securing annual con- 
tributions of funds which have insured the cortinuation of. the 
work. Suitable resolutions on Mr. lrothingham’s death were 
adopted by the Board of Trustees on January 16, 1936, and by the 
Governing Committee on lebruary 17, 1936, the first meetings 
after his death. 
Mr. Philip A. Benson, President of the Dime Savings Bank, 
3rooklyn, became a life member of the Garden on June 1, 1935. 
On June 13 he was elected a member of the Board of Trustees and 
appointed to the Botanic Garden Governing Committee. 
Mrs. Charles E. Perkins, Chairman of the Woman's Auxiliary 
since November, 1932, resigned as of November 22, 1935. Her 
resignation was accepted with sincere regret. The substantial 
services rendered the Garden by the Auxiliary under her Chair- 
mauship have been recorded in this and preceding Reports. 
Mrs. Irving L. Cabot was elected Chairman of the Woman's 
Auxiliary in place of Mrs. Perkins, resigned, her term of office 
beginning as of November 22. Murs. Cabot was Chairman of t 
ancheon Committee during Anniversary week last May. 
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Mr. Walter V. Cranford, though not an official member of the 
Botanic Garden nor of the Brooklyn Institute, was one of our 
Donors, in consideration of the gift of $15,000 by himself and his 
wife, which made possible our Rose Garden. His death on De- 
cember 5 removed one whose generous interest was sustained and 
active for many years. His gift was not alone to the Botanic 
Garden but to the entire community and to horticulture in the 
widest sense. Mr. Cranford’s firm built the original subway 
through Fulton Street and lower Flatbush Avenue to the Long 
Island R. R. Station, also a section of the Brooklyn subway loop 
under Center Street, Manhattan, and later the six track combined 
