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tralized authority could not handle any volume of administrative functions 

 effectively and at the same time have the added advantage of constantly 

 having under consideration the whole needs and problems of the city from 

 a planning as well as an administrative point of view. 



(c) Jurisdictional division arising from terms of trust donations of prop- 

 erty or property and money. Occasionally the donors of park properties and 

 trust funds, in order to be reasonably sure of the proper 'handling of the 

 property or property and funds, stipulate in the terms of -the gift that there 

 shall be a special commission or a board of trustees created to develop and 

 care for the property and to supervise the expenditure of the funds. Bacon- 

 field Park in Macon, Georgia, and Long Park in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 

 are examples, and for many years Keney Park in Hartford, Connecticut, 

 was of this type. Tower Hill Park in St. Louis is another example. Unless 

 trust funds for the development and maintenance of such park properties 

 are large enough to provide forever for the needs of the property, there 

 seems no good reason for setting such properties apart from other properties 

 in local park systems, for inevitably in the case of insufficient trust funds 

 their maintenance becomes a responsibility of the local authorities. Except 

 under very exceptional circumstances, it is usually a better plan for these 

 donations to come under the general administration of the local park 

 authorities. 



Not infrequently institutions of an educational-recreational character 

 are to be found in park systems under the management and control of boards 

 of trustees separate and apart from the general administrative authorities 

 of the park systems. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of 

 Natural History, the Aquarium in Manhattan, the Botanical Gardens and 

 the Zoological Gardens in the Bronx, all in New York City; the Brooklyn 

 Academy of Science in Brooklyn; the Arnold Arboretum in Boston; the New 

 Zoological Garden in Detroit; the Museum of the Buffalo Society of Natural 

 Sciences and the Academy of Fine Arts in Buffalo, New York, and the 

 Art Museum in Minneapolis are examples. 



Most institutions of this character arose out of private initiative, later 

 receiving public support and gaining the right to be located in public parks 

 while the original form of their government was continued. As a general 

 rule the governing authority of the park system in which they happen to 

 be located is represented on the board of trustees or board of directors. 

 This separate private-public management of institutions of this character 

 seem to have been eminently successful. 



