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1. Benefactors. Those who contribute $25,000 or more to the funds of 

 the garden by gift or bequest. 



2. Patrons. A contributor of $5,000 or more by gift or bequest. 



3. Fellows for life. A contributor of $1,000 or more at any one time. 



4. Fellowship member. A contributor of $100 annually until the total 

 of the annual contributions aggregate $1,000. 



5. Sustaining member. Anyone paying from $25 to $100 annually. A 

 sustaining member becomes a fellow for life member when the payments 

 aggregate $1,000. 



6. Annual member. Anyone paying an annual fee of $10. 



7. Life member. Any annual member who pays a fee of $250. 

 All classes of members are entitled to the following privileges: 



1. Tickets to all lectures given under the auspices of the board of 

 managers. 



2. Invitations to all exhibitions given under the auspices of the board 

 of managers. 



3. A copy of all handbooks published by the garden. 



4. A copy of all annual reports and bulletins. 



5. A copy of the monthly Journal. 



6. The Brooklyn Botanical Garden. Practically the same plan of financ- 

 ing the Brooklyn Botanical Garden is followed as that described for financing 

 the New York Botanical Garden. The provisions of the New York City 

 Charter noted under the section on the New York Botanical Garden apply 

 to the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, and through it, to the Botanic 

 Garden, except that the public funds are allocated through the Department 

 of Parks of the Borough of Brooklyn. The city owns the lands devoted to 

 garden purposes, builds, lights and heats the buildings and keeps them in 

 repair, and includes in its annual tax budget an appropriation for other 

 items of maintenance. The city has met approximately two-thirds of the 

 cost of the present buildings ($600,000). The private income of the garden 

 comes chiefly from endowments, donations for special purposes, and mem- 

 bership fees. 



The total public and private fund budgets for the Brooklyn Botanical 

 Garden for the years 1925 and 1926 were as follows: 



Public Private 



Year Appropriations Budget Total 



1925 $85,245.00 $63,029.48 $148,274.48 



1926 87,489.00 66,178.60 153,667.60 



Thus in 1926 it may be seen that the tax appropriation budget was 



57 per cent and the private fund budget was 43 per cent of the total budget. 



"All plants have been purchased with private funds since the garden 



