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Manager for the term of two years. Mr. Schermerhorn, 
feeling obliged to decline this office, Mr. John I. Kane was 
subsequently elected in his stead. They referred the exami- 
nation of the site of the Garden to the Scientific Directors. 
At the meeting of May nth! the President stated that the 
subscriptions to the Endowment Fund had reached $238,000, 
and the Secretary reported that the Scientific Directors were 
in consultation with the Commissioners of Public Parks rela- 
tive to the land to be selected. 
On June 18th the President, reporting for the Finance 
Committee, stated that the sum of $250,000.00, required by 
Act of Incorporation, had been fully subscribed, as follows: 
Columbia College, 
i Pierpont. Moreatly. aeicpani-neniesuecenead. 25,000 
Andrew Carnegie, 
aan pee oes 25,000 
Cornelius: Vanderbilt.¢.0:2csnaie, aa eiaues 25,000 
John D. Rockefeller,............ 0.06. . +. 25,000 
DO Malls. aeetaseen hae eae ain oe 25,000 
Hon. Addison Brown, ......... 0652 ce eeee 25,000 
Wm. E. Dodge, ..........- 2.00 ee eee 10,000 
Jase. Pie SCV MSeh vay yotesawatiaayead ads 10,000 
Wm. C. Schermerhorn, .. .......--. 0000s 10,000 
Hon. Chas. P. Daly,.......... 0.2.45. 5,000 
Oswald Ottendorfer, ....... 0.00.06. see aee 5,000 
Samuel Sloan, .........6. cece eee cece 5,000 
George | Gould, -sitiseeaseneeesene: ... 5,000 
Helen M. Gould, ............--.-5- .. oe. 5,000 
Johns: Kennedys esisrseeey Sexson 5,000 
Wm. Rockefeller,..... ...... cee eeee . +. 5,000 
Arnold, Constable & Co.,........00 ceases 5,000 
Moris: KR. Jesup. wh. ah eaybia. bec eeoee 2,500 
Mrs. Melissa P. Dede ees Lee. ee = 000 
Tiffany & Co., ......-. Bieta eae, sees 1,000 
Hugh N. Camp,.... 0.00.) cee oe oe 500 
