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the west. The gift, reported to the Board at its meeting on 
October 13, 1938, was made in memory of Mrs. Osborne’s hus- 
band, Dean Clay Osborne, deceased January 23, 1937. Work on 
the memorial, designed by our landscape architect, Mr. Harold 
A. Caparn, began in August 1938; it was suspended on December 
15 on account of winter weather. Work was resumed on Feb- 
ruary 3, and was completed, except for the flagstone paving, on 
March 9, 1939. It was formally presented on the afternoon of 
April 19, 1939, the wedding anniversary date of Mr. and Mrs. 
Osborne. 7 
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‘he exercises were held in the Botanic Garden Audi- 
torium with the following program: 1. Presiding, Mr. James G. 
McDonald, President of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sci- 
ences; 2. Brief address, “ The Significance of the Memorial,’ Dr. 
C. Stuart Gager, Director of the Botanic Garden; 3. Presentation 
of the Memorial, Mrs. Dean C. Osborne; 4. Acceptance of the 
Memorial on behalf of the Board of Trustees, Mr. Edward C. 
Blum, Chairman of the Board; 5. Acceptance on behalf of the 
Botanic Garden Governing Committee, Miss Hilda Loines, Chair- 
man of the Committee. 
A sudden downpour of rain just at the close of the exercises in 
the Auditorium interfered with the inspection of the Memorial. 
Tea was served in the Rotunda of the building by the Woman’s 
Auxiliary. About 250 persons were present. 
THE PLANTATIONS 
The Hurricane of September 21, 1958, recorded in the preced- 
ing Report, necessitated a great deal of replacement during the 
first half of the year. About 55 trees were felled by the wind, 
including most of the hedge of Lombardy Poplars (Populus nigra 
var. italica) planted nineteen years ago along the Washington 
Avenue border of the Garden. The work occasioned by the 
hurricane is recorded in the appended report of the Horticulturist 
(pp. 88-95). 
The Drought—A severe drought of twelve weeks duration in 
the spring and summer of 1923 (April, May, and June) is re- 
corded in the Botanic Garden Recorp for October of that year. 
The precipitation for the three months was 4.24 inches below the 
