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accompanied by descriptive letter press should be published, and 
the collections at the Garden furnish the specimens needed. 
preparation of drawings, their reproduction, and the printing a 
editing of such a work would need a fund of about $30,000, to 
yield $1,200 to $1,500 annually. The total cost of issuing sixty 
to seventy-five plates a year would be about $4,000, but more 
than half of this cost would be met by subscriptions to the work, 
and in time they might defray the entire cost. 
8. Scholarship Funds. For the support of trained deserving 
students while investigating botanical and horticultural problems. 
Several such funds from $10,000 to $25,000, yielding $400 to 
$1,200 annually, could be operated with signal advantage to 
scie 
9. es Fund. For the purchase of apparatus and 
other materials for the laboratories provided in the Museum 
Building. The laboratories are most important adjuncts to in- 
vestigation and they should be well supplied with all necessary 
equipment ; a fund of $20,000 to yield $800 to $1,000 a year 
is needed 
10. Fund for Horticultural Prizes. In order to stimulate the 
production and exhibition of horticultural novelties, it is desirable 
that the Garden have a fund of $10,000, to yield $400 or $500 
a year for the recognition of such work by experimenters in any 
part of the world, the prizes to be in money or as medals. 
11. Fund for Botanical Prizes. In order to stimulate scientific 
botanical discovery, the power to recognize original observations 
and other noteworthy contributions to botanical know 
prizes, either in money or as medals, a fund of $10,000 ue 
be provided to yield $400 to $500 annually. 
12. Research Funds. Several funds from $5,000 to $50,000 
yielding from $200 to $2,500 annual income are desired, to be 
devoted to the solution of unsolved botanical or horticultural 
problems 
It is also very desirable that the general Endowment Fund of 
the Garden be increased. The present endowment has been con- 
tributed as follows : 
