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on view here for some months, I would say that the Board of 
Managers of the Garden have been fortunate in obtaining the 
cooperation of the National Sculpture Society in selecting the one 
most suitable for execution. This, prepared by Mr. Carl E. 
Tefft, is further illustrated by means of photographs which I have 
submitted to 
now transmit copies of the following documents : 
1. Report of the jury appointed by the National Sculpture 
Society to examine the designs, dated April 16, 1903. 
2. Resolution of the Board of Managers of the New- York 
Botanical ‘Gansen accepting and adopting this report. 
3. Supplementary report of the jury, approving the model 
prepared by Mr. Tefft on the scale of three inches to one foot. 
I now ask your approval of the design thus selected, and your 
codperation in arranging a contract for its execution. 
ruly, 
(Signed) N. L. Brirron, 
Director-in- Chief. 
Tue City or New York, DEPARTMENT OF PaRKS. 
New York, November 19, 1903. 
Joun E. Eustis, ee 
Dr. N. L. Brirro 
Director-tn- oe els Garden, 
Bronx Park, New York City 
Dear Sir: Replying to your favor of the 18th instant, in rela- 
tion to the fountain planned for the front of the Museum Build- 
ing, enclosing copies of the report of the jury, resolution of the 
Board of Managers of your institution, and the supplementary 
report of the jury, I beg to say, the same has my approval, and 
that I will cooperate with you in the execution of the necessary 
completion of this work, and will have a resolution introduced 
to-day by the Park Board, authorizing us to proceed to prepare 
plans and specifications for contract. 
Yours truly, 
(Signed) Joun E. Eustis, 
Commissioner of Parks, 
Borough of the Bronx. 
