Brooklyn Botanic Garden Record 



VOL. XXX APRIL, 1941 NO. 2 



THIRTIETH ANNUAL REPORT 

 OF THE 



BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN 



1940 



REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR 



To the Botanic Garden Govern i. no Committee: 



I have the honor to present herewith my Thirtieth Annual Report 

 of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden for the calendar year 1940. 



Significance of the Report 



The important thing about a mill is not that water has passed 

 over the dam, but that grain is being ground. So, also, an annual 

 report should be presented and read not so much as a record of 

 what has been accomplished as of what is being accomplished. 

 And this is important because the present holds the promise of the 

 future. " Every present is an activity which presses forward 

 into its immediate future; fastens the future to itself and to some 

 extent determines what it is to be." 



This continual becoming — this constant merging of the present 

 into the future — reveals the trend, and affords the only solid basis 

 for confidence; and confidence is the foundation of that support, 

 both moral and material, without which no institution can be 

 effective nor can long endure. 



Herein lies the secret of the irksomeness of writing annual re- 

 ports; the pen, recording wbat has been, drags behind and pulls 



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