demonstrations on botanical nature study. A great number of inquiries 

 for information are continually answered by mail, the correspondence 

 of the institution being very large. The Garden publishes four different 

 series of botanical works, of which over 50 volumes and parts have now 

 been issued, containing important contributions to botanical and horti- 

 cultural science. Over 100 expeditions have been sent to regions little 

 known botanically, and valuable and unique collections of plants and 

 specimens have thus been secured. Students are received from other 

 institutions and given special facilities ; many of them, trained at the 

 Garden, are now occupying important positions as teachers or investi- 

 gators in colleges, universities, agricultural stations and schools. 

 The officers for the year 1914 are : 



President— W. GILMAN THOMPSON. 



Vice-Presidents— ANDREW CARNEGIE, FRANCIS LYNDE STETSON. 



Treasurer— JAMES A. SCRYM.SER. 



Secretary— N. L. BRITTON. 



Van Cortlandt Park. 



Area. — Van Cortlandt Park has an area of 1,132.85 acres. 



Means of Access. — Broadway Branch of the Subway direct to the 

 Park. 



Broadway surface line which runs along the entire west boundary 

 of the Park, crossing the city line and extending into Yonkers via South 

 Broadway. 



Jerome Avenue cars of the Union Railway, which cross Mosholu 

 Parkway, skirt the southeast boundary of the Park, cross the northeast 

 portion, and run into Yonkers via Central Avenue. 



The Crosstown cars of the Union Railway intersect the Jerome Ave- 

 nue line at many points where transfers are given. 



Putnam Division of the New York Central Railroad (terminal at 

 155th Street Station of Sixth and Ninth Avenue Elevated Railway, 

 Manhattan) to Van Cortlandt Station in Park. 



Special Features. — A big stretch of forest land that invites the 

 rambler, a lake for the canoeist and the oarsman, extensive grounds that 

 afford opportunity to enjoy as participant or spectator all manner of 

 out-door sports, elaborate formal gardens, and historical buildings, relics 

 and associations : — all these are features that make Van Cortlandt a park 

 of unique value. 



Golf. — Until this year (1914), there has been but one 18-hole golf 

 course. It is picturesquely located in the Tippett's Brook Valley, extend- 

 ing for some distance along the west shore of Van Cortlandt Lake. A 

 new 18-hole course, known as "The Mosholu Course," has been completed 



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