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At the same meeting it was referred to the Scientific Directors, 
with power, to determine upon a method for the expenditure of 
the annual interest upon the fund, and at a meeting of the Scien- 
tific Directors held December 6, 1901, the following resolutions 
were adopted, they having previously been submitted to the 
Misses Stokes, who made some valuable suggestions concerning 
the details : 
Resolved, That this gift be known as the Olivia and Caroline 
present applied to the payment of prizes for essays upon the 
preservation of wild aoe Gacudine shrubs, herbs and trees, and 
the publication and distribution of such essays, which are to be 
Is, 
that they also be issued as separates from the JouRNAL and dis- 
tributed anaes to all intereste 
Resolved, That such essays must be submitted to the Director- 
in-Chief ae later than February first ; those accepted for prizes 
and must be clearly written or type-written in triplicate; they 
become the property the Garden, which does not undertake to 
return any essay su 
Resolved, That A ie year 1902 the following prizes be offered, 
payable April 15th 
Resoted, | ons the awarding of these prizes be referred, ne 
mmittee consisting of Judge Brown, Profess 
Wane ond an the Director-in- 
It is further arranged that in all ecards bearing in any way 
on native plants, delivered under the auspices of the Garden, 
this topic shall be alluded to; it will be brought out in its very 
important relation to forests by Mr. Van Brunt in his lectures on 
“Trees, their Flowers and Fruit,’ to be given at the American 
Museum of Natural History in April, and will be brought to the 
attention of visitors to the wild parts of the Garden by‘ suitable 
notices and restrictions. 
Presentation of essays in competition for the three prizes now 
