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Our collaboration with these three journals lias been a distinct 

 and much-needed service to botanical science, and directly in line 

 with one of the stated objects of (he Garden, namely, " the ad- 

 vancement of botanical science and knowledge." Of course the 

 advantages have been mutual. 



What the City Has Meant to the Garden 



By the . Ujrccmcnt of December 28, 1909, the City of New York, 

 through its then Board of Estimate and Apportionment, entered 

 into a partnership with the Trustees of the Brooklyn Institute of 

 Arts and Sciences for the establishment and maintenance of a 

 botanic garden in Brooklyn. On its part the City has made the 

 following contributions toward the enterprise: 



1. It has provided a site ot some 50 acres of land near the 

 center of the borough, part of it improved, part of it wholly 

 unimproved. 



2. It has provided a total (1910-1940) of $389,367.36 for the 

 improvement of the land, the construction of buildings, and other 



permanent improvements." 



3. It has made thirty annual appropriations for maintenance, 

 including salaries, wages, supplies, materials, services, et cetera, 

 totaling $2,206,688.89. 



4. It has provided police service for the partial daily protection 

 ol the property and the visiting public. 



5. Through its Department of barks it has provided valuable 

 services in the preparation of plans and the supervision of work 

 in connection with improvements financed in the capital outlay 

 budget of the City. 



Cost per inhabitant. — On the basis of a population of 7,380,259 

 (1940 I". S. Government census) and a total appropriation for 

 thirty years of $2,596,056.25, the Garden has cost the city 28 cents 

 per inhabitant, or a trifle less than one cent per inhabitant per year.* 



What tiik Gakhkn Has Mkant to the City 



1. ft has provided an endowment fund of $1 ,381 ,44 ( J which, 

 during the year 1940. yielded an income of $51,872.08. The 



* The figure for the first twenty years was less than three quarters of a 

 cent per inhabitant per year. 



