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REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON PATRONS, 
FELLOWS AND MEMBERS 
To THE BoarpD oF MANAGERS OF THE NEw York Botan- 
ICAL GARDEN. 
Gentlemen: The number of new members who have 
qualified during the past year is 34. The number of annual 
members is now 892; life members 161; sustaining members 
26; fellowship members 6. 
f these 41 are now in arrears for dues for 1908, Io are in 
arrears for 1907 and 1908, 8 are in arrears for 1906, 1907 
and 1908, 6 are in arrears for 1905, 1906, 1907 and 1908, 
and 6 are in arrears for 1904, 1905, 1406, 1907 and 1908. 
Dues have been collected to the amount of $9,485 which 
has been transmitted to the Treasurer as received. 
One person has qualified as a life member by the payment 
of $250. This sum has been transmitted to the Treasurer 
for credit to the Endowment Fund. 
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, 
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Miss Helen M. Gould, 
Mrs. Esther Herrman, 
John S. Kennedy, 
* Deceased. 
* Oswald Ottendorfer, 
Lowell M. Palmer, 
William Rockefeller, 
* Wm. C. Schermerhorn, 
Jas. A. Scrymser, 
* Samuel Sloan, 
Mrs. Antoinette Eno Wood. 
