in the list. Yel many of the members of the staff are as 

 worthy and as eminent in their professional standing as 

 are those of the other institutions. I present below the 

 salary list of Columbia University, which may be con- 

 sidered as a fair criterion of recompense for service not 

 unlike that performed by the members of the Garden staff. 



Officer Salary 



Professors $6000 - 8000 



Associate Professors 4500 - 5000 



Assistant Professors 3000 - 3600 



Instructors 2000 - 2400 



Assistants 1000 - 1200 



In very recent years many colleges and other institu- 

 tions have increased the salaries of their staffs in accor- 

 dance with the increased cost of living, but it is evident, 

 I think, that the Garden has not met its moral obligations 

 in this matter and that a reexamination and readjustment 

 of salaries is a great desideratum. 



The matter of salaries is clearly linked with another 

 matter of moral obligation, namely, that of pensions. A 

 pension system has now become 



Pensions 

 almost a sine qua non of institu- 

 tions which encourage long and faithful service from their 

 employees, and the Garden has never made any provision 

 for the old age of those who have helped to make it. Some 

 of our staff are now advanced in years and, with inade- 

 quate compensation, have given the best of their life's 

 energies to the service of the Garden; and the process is 

 being repeated by others now younger. A careful study of 

 this subject should, I believe, be made, and a pension 

 system be devised which would remove this cause of 

 opprobrium. 



In certain other ways the Garden might be materially 



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