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REPORT OF THE CHAIRMAN OF THE SCIENTIFIC 
DIRECTORS 
To tHE Boarp or Mawnacers oF THE New York 
BoTANICAL GARDEN. 
Gentlemen: I have the honor to submit the following report 
from the Scientific Directors for the year 1912. 
Regular meetings of the Scientific Directors were held on 
April 13, June 8, and October 12, besides a special meeting 
on May 11, and an adjourned meeting on November 9. 
The most important business of the year was transacted 
at the meetings of April 13 and May 11, in relation to the 
readjustment of the salaries of the members of the staff, 
and the employment of additional museum aids. 
At the first named meeting, Professor Lee was appointed 
a committee of one to meet with the Director-in-Chief and 
his Assistant to consider this subject, and to report at a 
special meeting of this Board. At the special meeting of 
May 11, Professor Lee reported in detail, submitting a 
digest of the work and publications of the members of the 
staff. As a result of this report resolutions were adopted 
to the effect that the salaries of our staff-members were 
much lower than those paid to men in similar positions in 
other scientific municipal institutions in this City, and were 
inadequate both to the present high cost of living and to 
the scientific standing of the men involved. 
Also, that the scientific prestige of the Garden was 
threatened by the large amount of mechanical labor placed 
upon the shoulders of its scientific men, and that the solution 
of this problem lay in a material increase in the number of 
museum aids. 
The Director-in-Chief was requested to present these 
resolutions at the next meeting of the Board of Managers, 
accompanying them with statements of the service rendered 
to the Garden by members of the staff, and of their scientific 
records. 
It was also resolved that the Board of Managers be 
