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work and for publication has been $525,482.26, and the total of 

 permanent interest-bearing funds of the corporation, derived 

 mainly from gifts and bequests, now amounts to $522,500. To 

 these may be added a recent bequest of $25,000 by Mrs. Maria 

 DeWitt Jesup, and two other bequests, aggregating $25,000, 

 subject to life interests. The value of the collections of plants, 

 books and specimens already brought together is not less than 

 $400,000. 



In the spring and in the autumn, lectures and demonstrations 

 have been given to children from the public schools, accompanied 

 by their teachers, supplementary to the nature-study work of 

 the school curriculum. The total attendance at such lectures 

 since 1905 has been over 115,000, the average attendance at 

 each lecture being about 450. The average attendance at the 

 public Saturday afternoon lectures, which have been given con- 

 tinuously since the museum building was completed in 1898, 

 is about 100. Provision has been made for the further in- 

 struction of children and of the general public by detailing as- 

 sistants to accompany visitors to the grounds, buildings and 

 collections, to answer their questions and to describe the uses 

 and characteristics of plants. Parties of children, from both 

 public and private schools, visit the Garden under the guidance 

 and instruction of their teachers. Very much information is 

 sent by mail, in answer to a constantly increasing number of 

 questions about plants and their uses. The Garden has become 

 one of the chief educational influences of the city, and on account 

 of the scientific work done there attracts many students not only 

 from other educational institutions of the city, but from other 

 parts of the country and from abroad. 



In the development of the present reservation, the greatest 

 care has been taken jealously to preserve and retain all natural 

 features, including the forested areas of the Bronx valley and its 

 contiguous hills, and other woodland areas, with special reference 

 to the hemlock forest, and the tracts of meadow at the northern 

 end of the grounds. It has been necessary from landscape con- 

 siderations also to retain considerable areas in broad lawns. The 

 amount of land remaining available for plantations of trees, 



