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be about 35 years old; to James McCutcheon & Co., for an ex- 
hibition of flax and linen products; to the O. N. T. Thread Co., 
for an exhibit of cotton and cotton thread; and to the Inter- 
national Harvester Co., for a set of photographs of manila and 
sisal fiber and operations in rope making. 
The generous gift, by Mr. Alfred T. White, of one thousand 
dollars, hereby gratefully acknowledged, has made possible the 
continuation of the Leaflets in a much improved form. 
Financial Matters 
Municipal Appropriation for Maintenance —I append hereto a 
financial statement for the fiscal year 1913. The city appropria- 
tion, out of the tax budget, for maintenance for the year was 
$29,460, an increase of $3,629.43 over the amount appropriated 
for the preceding year. Most of this increase was owing to the 
appointment of new members of staff, including an assistant, 
curator of plant breeding, a librarian, and a laboratory assistant, 
and of several employees, including an engineer, a janitor, and a 
night watchman; made necessary by taking possession of our new 
building in September, and by the natural expansion of our work. 
So large an addition to our force at one time is not anticipated 
for the future. The total increase for salaries and wages over 
IQI2 was $7,181.32, but there were decreases in other items, 
making the net increase as stated above. 
Attention may be called to the fact that the entire furnishing of 
our building, including steel library stacks and steel herbarium 
cases, has been done without necessitating any special issue of 
corporate stock or of revenue bonds for this purpose. 
Building Fund.—As shown in the appended financial statement 
(p. 73), there remains from the original authorization of cor- 
porate stock to the amount of $100,000 for buildings, an unex- 
pended balance of $5,780.31. 
Grading Fund—The corporate stock appropriation of July, 
Igri, for grading, was $40,000, and the payments to John Connor, 
contractor for the first part of the grading, amounted to a total of 
$24,615.54, leaving an tunexpended balance of $13,004.06. The 
completion of the grading of the area adjacent to Mt. Prospect 
reservoir will require a sum in excess of this balance. 
