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grounds, but this is slow progress at the best and would not pro- 
vide 7 needed buildings. 
A gift of $500,000, or gifts ia $500,000, for expendi- 
ture vou accomplish this work. 
A gift of $500,000, or eft aggregating te ooo, added t 
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W. GILMAN oo Chairman, 
FREDERIC R. NEWBOLD. 
N ow. Secretary. 
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The foregoing report was accepted and approved by the 
Board of Managers at a meeting held January 8, 1917, and was 
referred to the Endowment Committee with power. 
THE PAULOWNIA TREE AT THE MANSION 
(WitH PLATE 191) 
ae ares to this issue shows a 1 single large Paulownia 
ery near the Mansion in the New York Botan- 
ical Garden. This s one of several ane kinds of ornamental 
trees used in the pea scheme of decorative planting for the 
rounds. 
This tree is about 62 years old, having been planted about 
1857. When the photograph was taken last September, it 
