JOURNAL 
OF 
The New York Botanical Garden 
VoL. XVI NovEMBER, 1915 No. 191 
THE MANSION 
e large stone residence built by the Lorillard family in 
1915. 
During the period from the establishment of Bronx Park until 
this time it had been used at intervals for various purposes by 
the Park Departament we a series of years as a police eee 
nd, have been used for muse 
purposes by the Bronx Society of Arts and Sciences by permission 
of the Park Department. When it came under the control of 
our floors and a comm 
substantially built and = contains forty-five rooms 
meeting of the Board of Managers held Ap ril 15, I915, 
recommendations were mee from the Scientific Directors 
relative to proposed uses of rooms in this building, includin 
shops and storage in its basement and horticultural laboratories 
in certain rooms in the upper story, and these recom: tions 
per 
were approved. At this meeting, the following resolutions were 
adopted: 
Resolved: what the eon chet ae oe He pays is, Seas a con- 
- y the 
Commissioner of Parks of the | eet of The Bronx to occupy 4 port: cor ] the 
Lorillard Mansion for museum purposes, until otherwise instructed, it being 
understood that no expense pee connected with such museum shall be borne 
by the New York ee ical Garden. 
{Journal for October (16: 203-230) was issued Nov. 2, 1915] 
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