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7, 1 89 1 , by the subscription of $25,000 by the Trustees of Columbia 

 College, and, during the next three years, additional subscriptions 

 were obtained. It was found desirable during this period of organization 

 to ask the Legislature for several slighl amendments to the Act of In- 

 corporation, and these were granted by the Legislature of 1894 (Chapter 

 103, Laws of 1894). The corporation met on February 12, 1895, ar >d 

 elected its first board of managers. 



At a meeting of the Managers on June 18, 1895, rnc President reported 

 for the Finance Committee that the sum of $250,000 required by tin- 

 Act of Incorporation had been fully subscribed as follows: 



Colunibia College $25,000 



J. Pierpont Morgan 25,000 



Andrew Carnegie 25,000 



Cornelius Vanderbilt 25,000 



John D. Rockefeller 25,000 



D. O. Mills 25,000 



Hon. Addison Brown 25,000 



Wm. E. Dodge 10,000 



Jas. A. Scrymser 10,000 



Wm. C. Schermerhorn 10,000 



Hon. Chas. P. Daly 5,000 



Oswald Ottendorfer 5,000 



Samuel Sloan 5,000 



George J. Gould 5,000 



Helen M. Gould 5,000 



John S. Kennedy 5,000 



Wm. Rockefeller 5,000 



Arnold, Constable & Co 5,000 



Morris K. Jesup 2,500 



Mrs. Melissa P. Dodge 1 ,000 



Tiffany & Co 1,000 



Hugh N. Camp 500 



Total S250.000 



At the same meeting, the Managers requested the President to notify 

 the Commissioners of Public Parks of the completion of the subscription 

 and to ask them to set apart 250 acres of land in Bronx Park for the 

 use of the Botanical Garden as required by the Act of Incorporation, 



