ARBORETUM MEMORIAL FUND APPROXIMATES DESIRED SUM

A total of $955,054 has been subscribed toward the endowment of the Arnold Arboretum, leading a sum of $44.946 still needed to reach the desired $1,000,000 goal. The Arboretum at Jamaica Plain, a department of the University, is America's greatest hardy garden.

This total includes the $50,000 contingent gift of E. S. Harkness of New York, payable when the contributions outside of Boston and environs total that secured through the efforts of the Granter Boston committee at the time the offer was made. In order to collect this money the sum of $44.946 must be raised.

Massachusetts has given most for the Sargent Memorial Fund, with $481.197 to date: New York follows with contributions totalling $330.570: Illinois has given $69,595. Delaware $24.880, and Pennsylvania $2.615. Scattered gifts from other parts of the country amount to $27.857