[Reprinted from Journal <>f the New York Botanical Garden, May, 19'S.] 



GRANT, BY THE CITY, OF THE USE OF ADDITIONAL 

 LAND IN BRONX PARK 



I. 



November 9, 19x4. 

 To the Board of Estimate and Apportionment. 



Gentlemen: The Board of Managers of the New York Botanical 

 Garden hereby request, pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 473 

 of the Laws of the State of New York for 1914, that your Honor- 

 able Board will set aside and appropriate, for the extension and 

 development of the work and objects of the New York Botanical 

 Garden, all that portion of Bronx Park shown upon a certain 

 map thereof numbered five hundred and sixty-eight and signed 

 by Messrs. Vaux and Parsons and filed with the former depart- 

 ment of public parks of the corporation known as the mayor, 

 aldermen and commonalty of the City of New York (of which 

 map a copy is submitted herewith), situated between the land 

 of Bronx Park heretofore appropriated for the use of the said 

 New York Botanical Garden in Bronx Park and the northern side 

 of Pelham Avenue, upon such conditions as your Honorable Board 

 may deem expedient. 



Since the appropriation by the Commissioners of Parks of the 

 present site of the New York Botanical Garden in Bronx Park, 

 by resolution adopted by the Board of Parks July 31, 1895, shown 

 and described on said map No. 568 of the Park Department, 

 the institution has rapidly attained international importance. 

 Through the expenditure of funds derived both from the city 



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