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At the meeting of the Board of Managers, held October 
gth, the Treasurer reported that $85,000 of the Endowment 
Fund had been paid in. On the recommendation of the Sci- 
entific Directors the following appropriations were made for 
the purposes specified : 
For a survey and map of the site, ........ $2,000.00 
For electrotyping and printing,............ 20.00 
For the planting of atemporary nursery,.... 500.00 
For labelling the larger trees of the tract,.. 500.00 
For the use of the Scientific Directors,.... 250.00 
For the purchase of a collection of seeds for 
planting. so0 wee te ck anaes 5.00 
The -following resolutions, adopted by the Scientific Di- 
rectors at a meeting held August 1gth, were reported: 
WuereEas, The Board of Commissioners of the Depart- 
ment of Public Parks have, in accordance with the request of 
the New York Botanical Garden, allotted and set apart for the 
uses of said Garden, two hundred acres of land or less in the 
northern part of Bronx Park, as shown upon a map thereot 
numbered 568 and signed by Messrs. Vaux and Parsons, and 
filed with said Department of Parks; and 
WHEREAS, By the terms of said allotment certain restric- 
tions are imposed against cutting down on pruning trees or 
making other changes in the ‘*‘ Hemlock Grove” included in 
said two hundred and fifty acres, except as in said allotment 
provided; therefore 
Feesolved, That the said allotment with the restrictions, as 
aforesaid, be and they hereby are adopted and accepted. 
The following action was taken: 
WHEREAS, The Board of Scientific Directors have re- 
ported the foregoing preamble and resolutions as to the allot- 
ment of grounds: 
Resolved, That the action of the Scientific Directors is 
hereby approved and ratified, and that the allotment of grounds 
for the Botanical Garden as made by the Department of Parks 
