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which we incur by virtue of being a scientific institution instead 
of merely a public park, such as the purchase of books and lan- 
tern slides, and the issue of purely scientific publications, anc 
including, of course, the purchase of all plants, as per our agree- 
ment of December 28, 1909, with the City of New York. 
ary 
In general, expenditures are assigned in such a way that 
Institute property and City property can always be readily sep- 
arable without involving injury to either. Thus, for example, 
herbarium specimens are not glued to paper bought with City 
money, and books bought with private funds are also bound at 
private expense. 
Recommendations 
Staff: For the past two years the duties of the secretary 
and librarian have been discharged by one person, but both 
phases of this work have now increased to such an extent that 
it has become physically impossible for one person to care for 
both. The amount of office work alone makes imperative the 
appointment of an assistant. ‘This appointee would also be able 
to render some assistance in the library. As soon as we enter 
our new building next fall, the installation and care of the 
library and closely related work, will demand the entire time 
of a trained librarian, preferably a person combining with library 
training and experience, some knowledge of botany. 
By the fall of 1913, the growth of our collections, the work 
of planning for further development, the administration of the 
laboratories, and other curatorial duties will make urgent the 
appointment of another curator. 
Our equipment in the line of instruction building and plant 
houses will also make it possible for us to begin the important 
work, which has been planned from the establishment of the 
Garden, with school children. ‘he work can doubtless be done 
most successfully by a woman teacher, who not only has botanical 
training, but who is also enthusiastically interested in teaching 
children. This instructorship is, in reality, one of the most 
important staff positions now to be filled 
I therefore beg to recommend the appointment of a librarian, 
of a curator, and of an instructor, all to become effective on 
