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atbush Avenue from 
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Interborough and B. M. T. subway under I 
Prospect Park Station to the Long Island R. R. Station. 
Hon. Richard Young, like Mr. Cranford, was not officially con- 
nected with the Botanic Garden, but during his term as Commis- 
sioner of Parks for the Boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens in 
1902 and 1903 (then under one commissioner), he was instru- 
, with others, in saving the present site of the Garden from 
mental 
At the Spring Inspection of 1929 
being covered with buildings. 
Mr. Young formally presented to our trustees the beautiful and 
greatly needed gate at our south Flatbush Avenue entrance. For 
this gate Mr. Young made the generous contribution of $17,000. 
This gate is not only an addition to the architectural beauties of 
the City, but it is difficult to see just how, without the gate, we 
could have handled the crowds that enter there, amounting on 
some week-ends to more than 10,000 in one day. Vhe passing of 
Mr. Young was the loss of a valued friend as well as of one of 
the outstanding citizens of Brooklyn. He was often referred to 
in print as “the grand old man of Flatbush,” for he had been as- 
sociated for years with the local board of education and every 
movement for civic betterment. In consideration of this gift MTr. 
Young was elected by the Trustees to the class of Donors. 
Margaret M. Dorward, Instructor, March 17—July 15, 1930; 
Acting Assistant Curator of Elementary Instruction, July 16, 
1930-December 31, 1932; and Assistant Curator since January 1, 
1933, was granted leave of absence, beginning October 1, 1935, 
for the purpose of a year’s study of horticulture in the Swanley 
Horticultural College, Kent, [ngland. 
Miss Frances M. Miner, Instructor in the Department of Ele- 
mentary Instruction since September 1, 1930, has taken over Miss 
Dorward’s work as Acting Assistant Curator of Elementary In- 
struction for the period of Miss Dorward’s absence. 
Clark, A.B., Wellesley College, 1935, was ap- 
Miss Beatrice 
- from October 14, 1935 to June, 1936. 
pointed instructot 
GIFTS 
Endowment of Trees.—Vhe planting of trees in the Garden has 
now proceeded to a point where practically all the sites suitable for 
memorial trees are occupied. ‘This, however, affords an advantage 
