vard on the eastern side of the grounds, and of its boiler house was 

 commenced early in 1908, by means of additional city appropriations, 

 and four greenhouses of this range, with the boiler house, were com- 

 pleted in 1909. Two additional greenhouses were added in 1910 and 

 191 1, and another in 1912. 



The lakes east of the museum building were formed during the years 

 1904 and 1905, by the flooding of marshes, which formerly occupied the 

 valley containing them, by means of three low dams, and the regulation 

 and grading of their banks. 



The first city appropriation for the construction of driveways and paths 

 was made available by a vote of the Board of Estimate and Apportion- 

 ment on December 23, 1897, $15,000 being then made available, and this 

 was expended in 1899 in building the plaza facing the railroad station, 

 the path connecting the railroad station with the museum building, and 

 part of the driveway in front of the museum approach. Road building 

 was continued in 1900 by continuing this driveway around the museum 

 as far as the lakes, and building the road from the station plaza to the 

 old position of the Southern Boulevard. All this work was accomplished 

 by city contracts, and included the necessary drainage and grading. 

 In 1900, another appropriation became available and a road 16 feet wide 

 was built over the lines of an old dirt road from a point east of the museum 

 building across the old "blue bridge" at the northern end of the hemlock 

 forest. This crosses the grounds eastwardly to the stable and from a 

 point near the stable southerly to the mansion and on to Pelham Park- 

 way. It was intended that this road should revert to a path after the 

 broad driveway through the grounds contemplated by the general plan 

 should be constructed, and the portion of it from the lakes to near the 

 stable has already so reverted ; the rest of it is still used as a road, pending 

 the completion of the 40-foot driveway. The portion of the driveway 

 and path system surrounding conservatory range no. 1 was built by 

 city contract in 1900 and 1902. During these years, paths were built by 

 our own force near the museum building and through the herbaceous 

 garden valley, and the road extending from the herbaceous garden 

 south through the woods was similarly constructed in 1901 and 1902. 

 The path from the Elevated Railway station to the Southern Boulevard 

 entrance, along the property line of Fordham University, was built in 

 1903, as also the paths on the terrace of conservatory range no. 1 

 and the path connections of that building with the Southern Boulevard 

 entrance. During the years 1903 and 1904, the driveways on both sides 



