official staff. Instead of becoming better in this particular, 

 the position of the Garden is becoming distinctly worse, 

 since it is indisputable that our needs are increasing much 

 more rapidly than our income. While it is obligatory upon 

 the city to provide funds for our maintenance, the amount 

 of such appropriations is optional with it, and the immediate 

 outlook is not promising for the supply of our positive 

 needs. It is, in my opinion, urgently necessary that the 

 Scientific Directors should in the early future devise plans 

 for the increase of our endowment, in accordance with the 

 actions taken at the annual meeting, January 9, 1905, and 

 on May 9, 1907, at which latter time a statement of the 

 needs of the Garden was authorized, and published in its 

 Journal for that month. If our endowment could be 

 increased to #1,000,000, as then recommended, our needs 

 would be met. 



Respectfully submitted, 



H. H. Rusby, 



Chairman. 



