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contributions by the friends of the museums for their development, 

 which will appear so far as the amount of money they receive from 

 other sources than the city for the year 1905, and their expenditures 

 therefrom, as shown by the following figures: 



Receipts Expenditures 

 1905 1905 



Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences $129,651.89 $98,595-45 



American Museum of Natural History 94;65o.oo 90,019.23 



Metropolitan Museum of Art . . 61,324.23 255,564.30 



New York Zoological Park: 



Contributions . . . 27,965.30 



Rents and Privileges . . 14,816.36 



42,781.66 40,962.23 



iSIew York Botanical Garden . . 34,325.15 33,164.32 



And in addition they receive many valuable donations of works of 

 art and other collections to which the public at reasonable times have 

 access. 



The arts and sciences in this region seem to have first found their 

 home in Brooklyn, for as early as 1823 some good citizens of that 

 town organized the Brooklyn Apprentices Library Association, which 

 Was afterwards changed in name to the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and 

 Sciences, and on the 4th of July, 1825, General Lafayette laid the corner 

 stone of its first building at the junction of Henry and Cranberry 

 streets. In 1835 this institution had outgrown its original quarters, 

 and the City of Brooklyn was prevailed upon to purchase its property 

 and the Institute moved to a new building on Washington Street, then 

 the residential center of the young City of Brooklyn. For fifty years 

 thereafter this institution did noble work in Brooklyn and endeared it- 

 self to every lover of science, art, and literature, and during that entire 

 time was sustained through the generosity of its individual patrons. In 

 1892 the city again took its building, which stood in the way of the 

 Brooklyn Bridge, and leased to the Institute its present site near Pros- 

 pect Park, expending $50,000 on the grounds and $335,500 for the 

 building and equipment. In 1895-6 the legislature authorized the 

 expenditure of $600,000 for the continuance of the work on the muse- 

 um buildings and two years later authorized the expenditure of $10,000 

 for the care and maintenance of the museum for the year 1897, which 

 Brooklyn appropriated accordingly. 



In the old City of New York, now the Borough of Manhattan, for 



