JOURNAL 
OF 
The New York Botanical Garden 
VoL. XV February, 1914 No. 170 
CIRCULAR OF THE ENDOWMENT FUND 
COMMITTEE* 
Tur New York Botanica GARDEN: ITs ACHIEVEMENTS AND 
N 
The New York Botanical Garden in Bronx Park has rapidly 
me an institution of international importance since the 
commencement of work on its development in 1896. Its collec- 
tions of living plants, of books, and of herbarium and museum 
specimens are among the most important in the world. Its 
reservation of 250 acres in Bronx Park has been improved as a 
public park by the construction by means of city appropriations 
of somé 4 miles of driveways, 8 miles of paths, the largest green- 
houses in America, — _ largest botanical museum building 
* At the meeting of the Board of Managers of the Garden held November 14, 
ids Dr. N. L. ets Prec tors Chief, ae ae W. Gilm: me Eeomee on, es 
of the E: ti i 
seine for educational and ‘scientific | work, Subscriptions were solicited by 
means of a printed circular which is here reproduced, posted up to date, for pur- 
poses of record. 
meeting of the Board of Managers held November 10, 1913, the com- 
t 
s to more than $500,000, and was continued. The committee desires the 
certo of all members of the Garden in further increasing the endowment to 
st $1,000,0 
[Jour 
URNAL oa January, 1914 (15: 1-21) was issued February 7, 1914] 
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