(116) 
previous year. The permanent funds of the Garden have 
received only slight additions, but a legacy from the estate of 
the late William R. Sands, payable during the present year, 
will add $10,000. Pursuant to authority given the Scientific 
Directors at the last annual meeting, a sum of $10,000 has 
been raised by subscription and applied to the increase of 
the collections, through purchases and exploration and col- 
lecting. The total value of gifts of living plants, specimens 
and books aggregates about $1,286; these gifts have been 
recorded in the monthly JouRNAL. ‘The maintenance of the 
Garden has been accomplished by the expenditure of the city 
appropriation of $75,000, supplemented by a special appro- 
priation of $15,000 made by the Board of Managers for this 
purpose at the last annual meeting. The necessity for making 
this appropriation seriously curtailed the development of 
educational work and limited the increase of the collections. 
The total membership of the Garden is now 1,116, a 
decrease of about 46 from 1904. 
Grading and Drainage 
Excavation of earth and rock at the rear of the museum 
building, in order to bring the surface at that point to the 
contours contemplated by the general plan of development, 
has been continued at intervals, and several thousand cubic 
yards of material have been removed, and all utilized in 
filling swampy ground and in the foundations of roads and 
paths in the northern and eastern parts of the Garden. In 
the spring somewhat more than half an acre of land at the 
rear of this building was covered with topsoil brought from 
the lines of new roads and paths on the eastern side of the 
grounds and the area was sown with grass seed, after grow- 
ing acrop of crimson clover on it during the season. An equal 
or greater area here may be brought into lawn during the 
next year, inasmuch as the excavation of rock is going 
forward during the winter. 
The surroundings of the new boiler house and green- 
houses on the eastern side of the Garden have been partially 
