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income was reduced from 5.5 per cent, to 3.5 per cent.; annual 

 contributions of private funds fell to one half their previous aver- 

 age, and the Tax Budget appropriations of the City were reduced. 

 The total annual income fell from $228,867 in 1930 to $168,250 

 in 1934. The effect of all this in curtailing personnel, on salaries 

 and educational activities, on the development of the plantations, 

 library, and scientific collections, and on botanical research may 

 well be imagined. 



Before the end of the third decade, just closed, the Garden, with 

 the rest of mankind, finds itself in a world of almost universal 

 war and widespread social changes. While such conditions in- 

 crease the need for all the humanizing and civilizing pursuits of 

 peace, they greatly increase the difficulties of realizing such needs. 



But, notwithstanding all of these difficulties and discourage- 

 ments, the record of the past thirty years is one of steady advance- 

 ment toward the ideal of a botanic garden of first importance as 

 a scientific and educational institution " for the advancement of 

 botany and the service of the City," advancing botanical science 

 by research and publication, providing a program of popular edu- 

 cation in all aspects of plant life and gardening, and developing the 

 plantations into what is generally conceded to be one of the most 

 beautiful as well as educationally effective spots in Greater New 

 York. 



Thirty Years of Progress 

 /// Terms of Statistics 



The steady advancement of the Garden during the past thirty 

 vears is concretelv reflected in the following statistics showing the 

 figures at successive fwa year intervals. 



The total general attendance for the first thirty years is 22,- 

 491,409. This is almost exactly three times the population of 

 Greater New York (7.380,259) as shown by the 1940 Lb S. Gov- 

 ernment census, and is one million two hundred more than eight 

 times the population of Brooklyn (2,660,479 by the same census). 

 It must, of course, be kept in mind that both Greater Yew York and 

 Brooklyn have about doubled in population since the Garden was 



