In Memoriam 
FRANKLIN WILLIAM HOOPER 
Born at Walpole, N. H. 
February 11, 1851 
Director of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, 
1889-1914 
Member of the Board of Trustees 
Ex Officio Member of the Committee on Botanic Garden 
Instrumental in securing the first enactment, by the Legislature of 
the State of New York, authorizing the Establishment of 
a Botanic Garden on Park Lands in the Borough 
of Brooklyn, 1897 
Died at Walpole, N. H. 
August I, 1914 

