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work and for publication has been $525,482.26, and the total of 
permanent interest-bearing funds of the corporation, derived 
mainly from gifts and bequests, now amounts to $522,500. To 
these may be added a recent bequest of $25,000 by Mrs. Maria 
DeWitt Jesup, and two other bequests, aggregating $25,000, 
subject to life interests. The value of the collections of plants, 
books and specimens already brought together is not jess than 
$400,000. 
In the spring and in the autumn, lectures and demonstrations 
and instruction of their tegicas Very much information is 
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from other educational institutions of the city, but from other 
parts of the country an ad. 
In the development of the present reservation, the greatest 
care has bee n taken jealously to preserve and retain all natural 
cont! hills, and other woodland areas, with special reference 
hi ck forest, and the tracts of me at thern 
the grounds. It has been necessary from landscape con- 
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