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REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON PATRONS, 
FELLOWS AND MEMBERS FOR THE YEAR 
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To THE Boarp or Manacers or THE New Yorx Bo- 
TANICAL GARDEN. 
Gentlemen: The number of new members who have 
qualified during the past year is 89. The number of 
annual members is now 823; life members 156; sustaining 
members 20; fellowship members 5. 
Of these, 33 are now in arrears for dues for 1912, 6 are 
in arrears for I911 and 1912. 
Dues have been collected to the amount of $9,115, which 
has been transmitted to the Treasurer as received. 
Four persons have qualified as life members by the 
payment of $250 each. These sums have been transmitted 
to the Treasurer for credit to the endowment fund. 
A complete list of all classes of members to date is 
herewith submitted. 
BENEFACTORS 
Hon. Addison Brown, *D. O. Mills, 
Andrew Carnegie J. Pierpont Morgan 
Columbia University, John D. Rockefeller, 
* Hon. Charles P. Daly, * Cornelius Vanderbilt. 
PaTRONS 
Oakes Ames, * Oswald Ottendorfer, 
* Mrs. Geo. Whitfield Collord, | Lowell M. Palmer, 
* James M. Constable, William Rockefeller, 
*Wm. E. Dodge, *Wm. R. Sands, 
Geo. J. Gould, * Wm. C. Schermerhorn, 
Miss Helen M. Gould, Jas. A. Scrymser, 
*Mrs. Esther Herrman, * Samuel Sloan, 
* John S. Kennedy, Mrs. Antoinette Eno Wood. 
* Deceased. 
