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The present income from endowment amounts to about $2,650. 
By the terms of our agreement with the City of New York, all 
plants must be purchased from private funds. It is also the 
adopted policy of the Garden that all books for the library, and 
their binding, and all lantern slides for lectures shall be purchased 
with private funds. These two demands, together with miscel- 
laneous drafts on the fund, have, since the Garden was started, 
consumed practically the entire amount, and generous special con- 
tributions in addition. 
Other purposes for: which the Garden urgently needs additional 
annual income include the following: 
T.dseatets ((printine. and mailing)! & .aias.eeuee ee: 51,000.00 
2. Motion pictures (equipment for taking and projecting) 500,00 
S..otudy collections to: loan to. schoalss......aeum «ne 200.00 
4. Botanical illustrating (including lantern slides, pho- 
fopraphv,-and pen artist) i+. «1nd cues. eee eeuennes 1,100.00 
5. Prizes for botanical work of merit by school pupils... 50.00 
OrRabiGoserentine lectures .ii.ae. vet ovaun a eee cemetes 200.00 
$3,050.00 
This sum ($3,050) represents the income on an endowment of 
something over $60,000 at 5 per cent. The immediate need of 
funds for the first four purposes named above is pressing, in order 
to insure the largest returns from what has already been invested 
in buildings, grounds, library, herbarium, and scientific staff. 
1. Leaflets —Nothing, to date, undertaken by the Garden has 
proved to be so popular, nor apparently so much wanted, as the 
Leaflets, the publication of which was begun on April 10, 1913. 
Our mailing list has nearly doubled since the first number was 
issued, and requests for quantities of from 50 to 200 have been 
received from teachers of all grades, from the grammar schools, 
through high school and normal school to university classes. 
These Leaflets are distributed free of charge, and since they ap- 
pear almost weekly during the period of publication, the annual 
expense for printing and mailing is considerable. A generous 
gift of Mr. Alfred T. White, acknowledged in the preceding 
Recorp, has enabled us to complete the first series, to issue several 
double numbers (of 8 pages), and to include illustrations. But 
