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and maintenance of said garden, its care and increase, and the museum, 

 library and instruction connected therewith.' When he died in 1889 his 

 will was found to provide for the administration of the garden by an inde- 

 pendent board of trustees, consisting of fifteen persons; ten named by the 

 testator, and the other five holding office as trustees ex officio, in various 

 capacities: The chancellor of Washington University, the bishop of the 

 Episcopal Diocese of Missouri, the president of the Public School Board of 

 St. Louis, the president of the Academy of Science of St. Louis and the 

 mayor of the city. Except for the members ex officio the board of trustees 

 is a self-perpetuating body, itself filling vacancies as they occur." ("The 

 Missouri Botanical Garden," by William Trelease, LL.D. Reprint from the 

 Popular Science Monthly, January 1903.) 



The Brooklyn Botanical Garden is under the administrative control of 

 a committee of the board of trustees of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and 

 Sciences. This committee is known as the governing committee of the 

 Botanical Garden and consists of twelve appointive members and one ex 

 officio member, the latter being the president of the board of trustees. The 

 mayor of the City of New York, the president of the Borough of Brooklyn, 

 and the commissioner of parks, Borough of Brooklyn, are ex officio members 

 of the board of trustees of the institute. 



The National Botanical Garden, Washington, D. C., is under the 

 administrative control of the Library Committee of Congress. 



The various botanical gardens maintained by universities and colleges 

 are administratively under the governing authorities of the several institu- 

 tions respectively. 



There are two sets of administrative agents for the government of the 

 New York Botanical Garden. The first of these is known as the Scientific 

 directors, composed (as fixed by the legislative act of incorporation) of the 

 president of Columbia College, the professors of botany, of geology and of 

 chemistry therein, the president of the Torrey Botanical Club and the 

 president of the Board of Education of the City of New York. These are 

 all also ex officio members of the New York Botanical Garden Corporation. 



The scientific directors have control of the scientific and educational 

 departments of the corporation and the appointment of the director in chief 

 of the garden. The scientific directors may add to their number new mem- 

 bers, from time to time, by a majority vote of the existing directors approved 

 by a majority vote of the board of managers of the corporation. 



The second administrative authority is the board of managers, com- 

 posed of the scientific directors, the mayor of the City of New York, the 

 president of the board of park commissioners of the department of public 

 parks, and at least nine other members elected by members of the cor- 



