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Lav Budget and Private Funds 
The total maintenance Budget for 1935 was $171,151.71. 
The Tax Budget appropriation by the City for maintenance was 
as follows: 
Requested Granted Change from 1934 
Personal Service ....... $69,266.00 $69,266.00 $1,445.78 increase 
Other Codes ........... 13,746.00 13,325.00 
1,554.03 decrease 
$83,012.00 $82,59 
00 $ 108.25 net decrease 
peat 
The Private Funds Budget was $88,560.71 as against $85,- 
950.99 in 1934, an increase of $3,009.72. 
The Private Funds Budget was $5,969.71 more than the 
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Lax 
Budget. 
The Total Budget for 1935 was $2,601.47 more than for 1934, 
and $57,715.56 less than for 1930. 
For the past eight years the percentages of the two budgets 
have been as follows: 
1928 1929, 1930 JO3T 1932 1933 L934 1935 
Tax Budget ..... 48% 439% 44% 48% 50% 47.2% 49.2% 48.26% 
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Private Funds ... 52% 57% 56% 52% 50% 528% 50.8% 51.74% 
Needs 
In previous reports specific needs have been noted. The great 
need of the Garden at present is a permanent fund that will yield 
an income of not less than $50,000 restricted only to the scientific 
and educational work of the Garden. The need would be met by 
adequate separate endowments for research, the library, the her- 
barium, living plants, publication, curatorships, et cetera. 
IM PONDERABLES 
The most essential thing about a scientific or educational in- 
stitution, such as the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, is usually not 
recorded in an annual report, chiefly because it is almost inipossi- 
ble to report it. [refer to the intangible items of esprit de corps: 
the ideals, defined and undefined, which actuate the members of 
the personnel to their best aceomplis 
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