New-York tribune., 1908-01-12
nshed. between $1,000 and 5000 being annually
needed for this purpose.

usbed. between $1,000 and 5000 being annually
needed for this purpose
Institute Park is across Flatbush avenue from
Prospect Park, and is convenient to the car lines
Besides, il is about near the centre of the city
as any site that could be selected. The grounds
contain thirty The park has only re-
Gently been opened and the labor expended III
levelling and beautfylng the ground will not rep
resent any great loss Of money to the city 1he
development Of the gardens and their annual main
tenance will cost little than the ordinary
park work which would otherwise be annually re-
qufred upon the plot II is purpOsed TO devote the
entire site TO the gardens. with the exception Oh
the site of the observatory on Prospect Hill.
Dr. Hooper and his co-workers are convinced
that there is a great need for the gardens IN
Brooklyn The borough has more than two nun
dred thousand school children, and most OF them
are never able to visit the gardens in The Bronx
In the Brooklyn gardens special provision VIII pc
made for the instruction Of the school children ana
for the visits of nature study classes with their
teachers. The garden will also furnish the scooIS
with all the specimens needed free OF cost me
gardens will not start with a complete set Oh
plants So many plants have been promised that
there is 10 need OF spending much money in this
manner Lowell NJ Palmer has promised the In
stitute d complete set OF hardy eVerSreefs from
his arboretum Stamford, Conn Others. nave eA-
pressed their intention of adding to the COLLECTION
DR. Hooper believes that he will have more pi'tAts
than he can find for rather than too few
for the gardens.
Perhaps even more Interesting 20 some than the
botanical Gardens is the proposed astronomcal
observatory. Alfred T. White has coliflpulCC
SO coo TO the observatory and others Rave made
smaller gifts Prospect Hill which will be the
site of the building, is 175 feet above sea level
The space is to be set aside for the structure
IS 200 feet long and 10 1eet wide The observatory
Will rise south OF the reservoir. The cost Of erect
ina, il will be $4,000 1t viii probably be put up
II, two narts The money contributed by Nj
White Will pay for telescope with a u or 10 men
objective and for some l0-nch and(S-inch glasses.
The observatory when il is put into operation
Will be supplied with enough instruments 10 enter
tain and instruct more than two hundred persons
al one time 4 room in the building VIII be set
aside as a lecture room, and 1t VIII pc PROVIDED
with a screen containing 225 square feet Au-
d:ences Of two hundred persCls will be admitted
90 the dark room every twenty minutes in the Gay
and evening and lecturers will explain the mean
ing of the images on the screen The lectures Will
be repeated TO each audience and everything VIII
be free.
Dr. Hopper said yesterday that an image of the
sun three feet in diameter would show the spots
moving and the great bali Of fire turning on its
axis. Great things he said. may be expected or an
image of the size that will be thrown on the screen
bat the light of the stars is too faint to permit
Of their reproduction it. However. there will
be plenty of telescopes for the use OF those WHO
wish 10 see the stars. Half dozen glasses Will
be mounted on 4 big concrete platform outside the
building, and instructors viii stand beside them
and explain TO visitors what they see in the
heavens Some persons also Will be allowed to
use the biz telescope and the small instruments
indoors for their observations. Two nights week
MIL be set aside for school children and their
teachers exclusively
In the new wing OF the Brooklyn Museum 4
botanical laboratory viii be sci aside for school
teachers and there will be class instruction for
ther benefit The cost of this wing viii be $4,000
Only a few weeks ago the great eastern extension
Of the front the museum was opened. 1t was
mt up a. a cost Of $4,000 The work took three
years. The work on the western wing viii take
less time probably. The wing is greatly needed
and will be much more in demand by the time IL
is built.
Even more imperatively is the need OF "A
str,Io. IRE TO take the place Of the old Chdren's