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REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON PATRONS, 
FELLOWS AND MEMBERS FOR THE YEAR 
1919 
To THE Boarp or Manacers or THE NEw York Bo- 
TANICAL GARDEN. 
Gentlemen: The number of new members who have 
qualified is 165. The number of annual members is now 
979; life members 139; sustaining members 12; fellowship 
members 3. 
Of these 24 are now in arrears for dues for 1919, 11 for 
dues for 1918 and 1919, 10 for dues for 1917, 1918 and 1919. 
Dues have been collected to the amount of $10,080. 
Three persons have qualified as life members by the pay- 
ment of $250 each. These sums have been transmitted to 
the treasurer. 
A complete list of all classes of members to date is 
herewith submitted. 
BENEFACTORS 
*Hon, Addison Brown, Murry Guggenheim, 
*Andrew Carnegie, *D, O. Mills, 
Columbia University, *J, Pierpont Morgan, Sr. 
*Hon. Chas. P. Daly, John D. Rockefeller, 
Daniel Guggenheim, *Mrs. Russell Sage, 
*Cornelius Vanderbilt. 
PaTRONS 
Oakes Ames, *William E. Dodge, 
*Miss Catherine A. Bliss, James B. Ford, 
Dr. N. L. Britton, George J. Gould, 
*Hon. Addison Brown, Edward 8. Harkness, 
*Andrew Carnegie, *Mrs. Esther Herrman, 
*Mrs. George Whitfield Collord, Archer M. Huntington, 
*James M. Constable, *Henry Iden, 
* Deceased. 
