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REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON PATRONS, 
FELLOWS, AND MEMBERS 
To THE Boarp oF MANAGERS OF THE NEw York BoTan- 
ICAL GARDEN. 
Gentlemen: The number of new members who have qual- 
ified during the past year is 63. The number of annual 
members is now 927; life members 167; sustaining members 
29; fellowship members 6. 
Of these 24 are now in arrears for dues for 1907, 9 are in 
arrears for 1906 and 1907, 7 are in arrears for 1905, 1906 and 
1907, and 6 are in arrears for 1904, 1905, 1906 and 1907. 
Annual dues have been collected to the amount of $8,750, 
which has been transmitted to the Treasurer as received. 
Three persons have qualified as life members by the pay- 
ment of $250 each. These sums have been transmitted to 
the Treasurer for credit to the Endowment Fund. 
One person has qualified as a sustaining member by the 
payment of $25. This sum has been transmitted to the 
Treasurer. 
A complete list of all classes of members to date is here- 
with submitted. 
BENEFACTORS 
Hon. Addison Brown, 
Andrew Carnegie, 
Columbia University, 
* Hon. Charles P. Daly, 
D. O. Mills, 
J. Pierpont Morgan, 
John D. Rockefeller, 
* Cornelius Vanderbilt. 
PATRONS 
Oakes Ames, 
* Mrs. Geo. Whitfield Collord, 
* James M. Constable, 
* Wm. E. Dodge, 
Geo. J. Gould, 
Miss Helen M. Gould, 
Mrs. Esther Herrman, 
* Deceased. 
John S. Kennedy, 
* Oswald Ottendorfer, 
William Rockefeller, 
* Wm. C. Schermerhorn, 
Jas. A. Scrymser, 
* Samuel Sloan, 
Mrs. Antoinette Eno Wood. 
