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On Saturday afternoon, December 13, 1913, the President and 
Trustees of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, the Com- 
mittee on Botanic Garden, and the Director and Staff of the 
Garden received the members of the Department of Botany of the 
Institute and their friends, at the opening of the first section of 
the new laboratory building, and conservatories. The interior 
was decorated with palms and a color scheme of red and green in 
anticipation of the Christmas season. In the lecture room light 
refreshments were served, Mrs. L. H. Pounds, wife of the Borough 
President of Brooklyn, presiding at the coffee urn and Mrs. F. A. 
Lucas, wife of the Director of the American Museum of Natural 
History, at the tea urn. About two hundred guests were present, 
including President A. Augustus Healy, Vice-President Col. 
Robert T. Woodward, Mr. Alfred T. White, Chairman of the 
Committee on Botanic Garden, Mrs. White, Mr. Gates D. Fahne- 
stock, Mr. W. H. Fox, Director of the Central Museum, 
Mrs. Fox, Dr. F. A. Lucas, director of the American Museum of 
Natural History, Mrs. Lucas, Dr. W. A. Murrill, assistant director 
of the New York Botanical Garden, Mrs. Murrill, Dr. Arthur 
Hollick, director elect of the Museum of the Staten Island Associ- 
ation of Arts and Sciences, Mrs. Hollick, Borough President 
Lewis H. Pounds, Mrs. Pounds, the Misses White, Mrs. C. Stuart 
Gager, Mr. J. Adolph Mullenhauer, Mr. Thos. H. Coates, Mr. John 
Mickleborough, Mrs. Mary Van Norden, Mrs. Clayton A. Peters, 
Miss Peters, Dr. and Mrs. Fred. J. Seaver, Mr. and Mrs. Percy 
Wilson, Mr. John McCallum, Miss Jean Broadhurst, Miss E. M. 
Kittredge, Mrs. Helen B. Schoonhoven, Mrs. Annie Morrill Smith, 
Mrs, Norman Taylor, Mrs. E. W. Olive, Mrs. O. E. White, 
Miss Agnes Eaton Bowen, Dr. and Mrs. C.G. Purdy, Miss Purdy, 
Mr. and Mrs. Edward F. Stevens, Miss Susan A. Hutchinson, Mr. 
J. M. Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas F. Casey, Dr. and Mrs. C. A. 
King, Miss Anna B. Gallup, Miss Miriam S. Draper, Miss Mar- 
garet W. Carmichael, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. P. Engelhardt, Miss Mary 
D. Lee, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Judy, Miss Ridenour, Mr. Seamens, 
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cushman Murphy, Prof. D. S. Martin, Miss 
Helen J. Aitken, Miss Lena M. Telfer, Miss Grace Parsons Hart, 
Miss Hart. 
