Miscellaneous file, 1910-1919.

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Miscellaneous file, 1910-1919.

Includes correspondence, reports, and memoranda with autographs of botanists, budget, list of objects placed in cornerstone of Laboratory Building in 1916, information about garden plots, soil improvement of the Garden, history of Brooklyn Botanic Garden and other departments of Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, and specification for buildings.

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Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

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